Evidencing Nonstandard Feature Dynamics: "Speak Aloud and Write" Protocols by African American Freshman Composition Students  

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Mix, Julie Ann

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 20 no. 3 (Jul. 2003), page 307-332.
Topik: writing research; applied linguistics; dialect influence; higher education
Fulltext: 307.pdf (153.78KB)

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Via a Speak Aloud andWrite protocol methodology, this study investigated the characteristics of the wording formulation process of a select group of 7 African American students in freshman composition who claimed nonstandard features were active at least 30% to 40% of the time while they composed their papers. Control of rhetorical context was established in terms of tone (formal), purpose (to explain or argue), audience (English instructor), and the time-place context (“simultaneously” spoken-written at one sitting). Two Speak Aloud andWrite transcripts per participant were analyzed for grammatical and “pronunciation-related” nonstandard feature dynamics in reference to consequences on the page, given the requirements of freshman composition. Findings indicate complex dynamics at work in the form of 7 feature dynamic patterns and 19 variations, with particularly marked activity in relation to a consonant cluster reduction feature and to specific verbal nonconcord features. Also, students who shared feature dynamics pattern characteristics generally shared literacy background characteristics.

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