Profiling the Writing Competency of BAME Undergraduate Students

Author:

Meletiadou Eleni1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. London Metropolitan University, UK

Abstract

Higher education students from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds tend to withdraw from their undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom (UK). It is therefore important to explore their writing challenges to increase student retention and reduce the ethnicity awarding gap. The current study examines and describes the written communication competency strengths and weaknesses of randomly selected BAME undergraduate ESL students at a higher education institution (HEI) in the UK. Acknowledging the centrality of the text in the rating process, the essays of 20 participants were analyzed to reveal more information about the syntactic complexity, richness of vocabulary, cohesion, and lexical density of these learners' essays and allow the researcher to reflect on ways in which their writing performance could be improved. Therefore, this chapter provides interesting suggestions to HEI and lecturers who are willing to put the effort into improving BAME undergraduate ESL learners' writing skills while preparing them for the world of work.

Publisher

IGI Global

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