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L1 and L2 adolescents’ perspectives on writing within and across academic disciplines: Examining the role of agency in writing development
- Source :
- Writing and Pedagogy, Writing and Pedagogy, 8(2), 245-274
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Equinox Publishing, 2016.
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Abstract
- To investigate a diverse sample of adolescent writers’ experiences with disciplinary writing, this study compared 66 adolescents’ perceptions of writing through an analysis of interviews as part of a national study. Grounded in a social constructivist framework that stresses the role of agency in the development of writing competence, the study aims to examine factors – including language background and prior writing experiences – that are associated with adolescents’ perceptions of their writing development. The study asked: How do native English speaking and English language learning adolescents’ perceptions of writing development compare? To what extent, if at all, is agency implicated in patterns of variation? Results of the comparative analysis suggest that varying affordances and constraints, and combinations of these, relate to adolescents’ expressed agency toward writing. Affordances include opportunities to select personally relevant subjects and to develop writing through feedback and revision processes; constraints include the use of highly structured writing scaffolds, formulas, and tightly constrained topics. Implications for differentiated scaffolding of writing instruction that might affectively and cognitively engage diverse adolescent learners are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
Writing development
Discourse analysis
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education
writing pedagogy
disciplinary literacy
Language and Linguistics
Education
Perception
Pedagogy
adolescent literacy
discourse analysis
Psychology
Affordance
Competence (human resources)
Social constructivism
Discipline
Adolescent literacy
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17565847 and 17565839
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Writing & Pedagogy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e2a9b734179dbd52a1f3fec8f987293c