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Teaching and Researching Genre Knowledge: Toward an Enhanced Theoretical Framework
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Tardy, Christine M.; Sommer-Farias, Bruna; Gevers, Jeroen – Written Communication, 2020
Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre knowledge, genre awareness, recontextualization, conditional knowledge, and metacognition. Definitions of these concepts have at times conflicted, and their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Metacognition
Tracing the Discursive Emergence of Latin American Higher Education Writing Studies
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Avila Reyes, Natalia Alejandra – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Writing Studies has flourished as a field in Latin America during the last two decades. Its development has been fostered by an exponential growth of college enrollments and processes of expansion and democratization of the educational offer in the region. The renewed attention received by higher education writing has fueled new research efforts…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Instruction, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Examining the Role of Inter-Group Peer Online Feedback on Wiki Writing in an EAP Context
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Ma, Qing – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
This study investigated how one type of learner-generated information and content, i.e. inter-group peer online feedback, provided on a wiki writing assignment for an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, could contribute to student L2 writing. Using a mixed method approach, more than 1000 entries of online peer comments were collected,…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Collaborative Writing
Writing and Language Learning: Advancing Research Agendas. Language Learning & Language Teaching. Volume 56
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Manchón, Rosa M., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part I identify and expand in novel ways the diverse…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Connecting Drama and Writing: Seizing the Moment to Write
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Cremin, Teresa; Goouch, Kathy; Blakemore, Louise; Goff, Emma; Macdonald, Roger – Research in Drama Education, 2006
This paper outlines research which examined the relationship between drama and writing, detailing the method of enquiry, theoretical foundations and emergent findings. The study sought to understand the nature of the support that drama offers children as writers and to identify features of writing which regularly surfaced in drama-related writing.…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Emergent Literacy, Correlation, Drama
"The Student's Right to Write" and "Composition Opinionnaire to the Student's Right To Write": A Comparison of Responses across Decades.
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Sandel, Lenore – 1989
A comparison of responses, gathered in 1970 and 1987, to the "Composition Opinionnaire" which was prepared by the Commission on Composition of the National Council of Teachers of English to meet the critical needs of schools in 1970, was designed to determine any change or lack of change in teachers' values concerning the described…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, English