Investigating Reformulation As A Practical Strategy For The Teaching Of Academic Writing  

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Allwright, J.M. ; Woodley, M.P. ; Allwright, R.L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 3 (Sep. 1988), page 236-256.
Fulltext: Vol 9, 3, p 236-256.pdf (1.22MB)

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This paper is about the use of reformulation as a strategy for the teaching of academic writing, but more especially about the exploratory investigation of the use of reformulation for such purposes. Its main aim, therefore, is to add to our understanding of the workings of such a strategy. In the first part of the paper the reformulation strategy is itself described, as it has been developed and used with non-native writers of English in a British university setting. The strategy generates a rich database of writing samples which permits the pursuit of a number of precise research questions. In the second part of the paper the selected text measures are described, and the third part then reports the preliminary application of these text measures to the data from two case studies, in response to the research questions already established. In conclusion it is emphasized that although the results are consistent with a generally positive interpretation of the strategy's effects they should be seen as helping us understand the reformulation strategy rather than as attempting to prove its validity. In particular they suggest that the class discussion that follows the provision of the reformulated version may be crucial to the strategy's successful operation, and perhaps more influential than the reformulation itself.

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