Good idea and opinion seem not important: Reflections on Students' Conceptualisations of Academic Writing  

Oleh:

Toh, Glenn ; Hocking, Darryl

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Journal vol. 3 (Dec. 2010), page 49-63.
Topik: Academic Discourse; Academic Literacies
Fulltext: Good idea.pdf (194.79KB)

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This article reports on a study done at a New Zealand university seeking to determine the way overseas students respond to the teaching academic writing using a text functions or structures approach, which focuses on discrete language structures and skills. Feedback was gathered from a class of 30 students through the use of a written questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed using keyword and pattern analysis. The findings reveal a palpable disjuncture between overseas students? prior academic writing experiences and their present learning using a text functions or structures approach. The article argues that more dialogic and discursively oriented approaches to the teaching of academic writing will bring about greater value-addedness to academic writing courses even as they help alleviate students? struggles while making the switch from L1 to L2 writing.

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