Contrastive rhetoric is the study of how a person's first language and culture influence his or her writing in a second language.
Research began in the 1960s, started by the American applied linguist Robert Kaplan. Since that time, the area of study has had a significant impact on the teaching of writing in both English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Kaplan’s (1966) research pioneered the attention to cultural and linguistic differences in the writing of ESL students. This attention to writing was especially welcomed in the area of ESL instruction, as an emphasis on spoken-language skills had previously dominated ESL contexts in the United States.
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