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Direct linkKiramba, Lydiah Kananu – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017
This article discusses the findings of an empirical study that investigated the writing practices in a multilingual, rural, fourth-grade classroom in Kenya. The study was undergirded by Bakhtin's heteroglossia. Analysis of texts indicated that these emergent multilinguals used multiple semiotic resources to maximize the chances of meeting the…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Language Usage, Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
Download full textBruce, Bertram; And Others – 1978
This paper explores the process of writing from several perspectives, as a first step toward a more comprehensive theory. The first perspective sees writing as a communicative act. The observation that to write is to communicate, though commonplace, has major and sometimes surprising implications for a theory of writing. It forces a focus on the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Theories
Peer reviewedCumming, Alister – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
A review of research on second-language writing looks at literature in four areas: research attempting to understand the norms and demands of writing; studies focusing on understanding students, their composing, and their texts; research on the functions of second-language writing instruction and classroom interaction between teacher and learner;…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Armstrong, Cherryl – 1986
Poets' working drafts and their comments on their processes indicate overwhelmingly that they, like experienced writers of other genres, are extensive revisers. The biggest difficulty with the term "revising" is that it designates both the changes made to a text and the mental processes and attitudes that underlie these changes. Even the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Language Research
Peer reviewedCorbeil, Giselle – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
A study analyzed the second-language essays of seven anglophone and one French-speaking Quebec university students enrolled in a literature course by using a cognitive-metacognitive framework developed for mathematical problem-solving and a think-aloud protocol. Results indicate the framework, with some adjustments, is a reliable tool for…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Essays, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the adolescent writer's developing sense of audience; (2) the entry skills, methods, and attitudes of intermediate composition students in postsecondary composition programs; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedDieterich, Daniel J.; Behm, Richard H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Provides annotations of research studies in the areas of language, literature and media study, writing, and English teacher education. (HOD)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Steffensen, Margaret S.; Cheng, Xiaoguang – 1996
A study investigated the effects of instruction in metadiscourse on composition students' writing skills. Subjects were students in two 100-level college composition classes. A Control Class (CC) was taught using a process approach, and the Experimental Class (EC) had direct teaching of metadiscourse. The CC students worked on the propositional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Evensen, Lars, Sigfred – 1987
A planned 3-year joint project of the Nordic research council for the humanities that focuses on writing development in school-age children is described. Four Nordic countries are involved in the project: Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. In the study, discourse-level performance analyses of student writing in English as a Second Language are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Applied Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Discourse Analysis
Fakhri, Ahmed – 1995
A study compared the topical structure (TS) of Arabic and English in order to determine whether Arab learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) transfer potential differences between Arabic and English in their English writing, or whether they use an altogether different TS indicative of developmental factors. Four sets of data were compared…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
McQuade, Donald A. – 1986
Intended to chart the interconnections of linguistics, stylistics, and the teaching of composition, this book encourages a productive collective effort to cultivate linguistics among teachers of writing. Chapter titles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Grammar in American College Composition: An Historical Overview" (R. J. Connors);…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1987
Papers presented at the conference on applied linguistics include the following: "Speaking of Grammars: Is Big Beautiful?" (Jan Svartvik); "A Sociosemiotic View of the Grasp of Language at Reality: The Lexical Field 'Aesthetic Judgment'" (Wolfgang Kuhlwein); "Language as a Target and Instrument of the Educational Process…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Belcher, Diane, Ed.; Braine, George, Ed. – 1995
Essays on research and teaching of academic writing in English as a second language include:"When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Case of a Graduate ESL Student" (Melanie Schneider, Naomi K. Fujishima); "Good Writing: I Know It When I See It" (Ilona Leki); "Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Chinese
