Composing in a Foreign Language: An Insider–Outsider Perspective  

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McDonough, Jo ; McDonough, Steven

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 4 (2001), page 233-247.
Fulltext: 10.4.233-247.pdf (225.0KB)

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This paper examines the composing processes of a learner of modern Greek from two different perspectives, that of a strategies researcherand that of the writer herself. The researcher uses established typologies to examine the data, and the writer produces a ‘thick’ analysis of the same material.The main aim of the study was to juxtapose these two separate analyses in order to evaluate the differing and complementary ways in which they might shed light on the writing process. The study therefore focuses on differing awareness of the processes and strategies rather than on the details of language used. The data were collected over a period of five months using nine tape-recorded think-aloud protocols, which themselveswere homework tasks written in the context of an evening class. It is argued that the combination, or triangulation, of outsider and insider analysis canprovide a richer descriptionthan the use of one source alone becauseit offers both explanatorycategoriesanda contextualisedautobiographical account; and, further, that a learner’s own analysis canserve to generate hypotheses or research questions. Some implications are drawn for further research of this kind and, briefly, for pedagogy.

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