Epistemological and Interpersonal Stance in a Data Description Task: Findings from a Discipline-Specific Learner Corpus  

Oleh:

Wharton, Sue

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 31 no. 4 (2012), page 261-270.
Topik: Appraisal English for academic purposes Qualitative content analysis Stance Statistics writing Undergraduate writing
Fulltext: Volume 31 Issues 4, p. 261-270.pdf (361.61KB)

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This article examines the stance options used by writers responding to a data description task in the discipline of Statistics. Based on a small learner corpus, it uses inductive qualitative content analysis to explore both the content propositions that students included in their writing, and the ways in which they expressed evaluative stance vis-à-vis such propositions. In the light of an interview with a specialist informant, the article discusses the appropriacy of the content choices and stance options taken by students. It then discusses the potential exploitation of the learner corpus for pedagogic purposes.

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