The current study explores how ESL students in an international high school in East Asia position themselves after reading a politically-oriented English news article about the Taiwan Straits from a Mainland China perspective. The news article and the students’ responses were collected and analyzed with a corpus-based discourse analysis approach. The analysis revealed three primary findings: (1) the news article represents distinct views about the issue of the Taiwan Straits; (2) the ESL readers identified these distinct views; and (3) the cultural and social backgrounds of the ESL readers play a crucial role in their position and evaluation of the news article.
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 2.1. The data 2.2. Data collection 3. Analysis 4. Results 4.1. People's daily online 4.2. Reader responses 4.3. What the readers found in the news article 4.4. How the readers position themselves in their responses 5. Discussion and Conclusion References Appendix