摘要：Writing for publication in English-medium refereed academic journals can be a
challenging task for doctoral students who use English as an Additional Language (EAL).
Limited research, however, has been conducted in the Australian context to explore this
practice among EAL doctoral students. Adopting a qualitative research approach with
semi-structured interviews for data collection, this study aims to investigate the
experiences of seven Vietnamese international students studying doctoral programs in
Australian universities when writing for publication in English. Particularly, it seeks to
find out what challenges this group of students encountered and the strategies they
employed for scholarly publishing. The results show that these Vietnamese students faced
similar linguistic and rhetorical challenges in scholarly writing with other groups of EAL
doctoral students. Yet, some of their difficulties (for example, linguistic bias in journal
gatekeeping, power inequality between co-authors) as well as some of their adopted
strategies, are quite different from those of students in non-Anglophone contexts. It is
possible that the close connection to the English-based academic discourse community
gives Vietnamese students more confidence than those in non-Anglophone contexts. This
study provides practical recommendations for writing support programs for this cohort
of doctoral students in Australian universities.
