Writing in Context(s): Textual Practices and Learning Processes in Sociocultural Settings

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Springer Science & Business Media, Feb 17, 2005 - Education - 280 pages

The premise that writing is a socially-situated act of interaction between readers and writers is well established. This volume first, corroborates this premise by citing pertinent evidence, through the analysis of written texts and interactive writing contexts, and from educational settings across different cultures from which we have scant evidence. Secondly, all chapters, though addressing the social nature of writing, propose a variety of perspectives, making the volume multidisciplinary in nature. Finally, this volume accounts for the diversity of the research perspectives each chapter proposes by situating the plurality of terminological issues and methodologies into a more integrative framework. Thus a coherent overall framework is created within which different research strands (i.e., the sociocognitive, sociolinguistic research, composition work, genre analysis) and pedagogical practices developed on L1 and L2 writing can be situated and acquire meaning.

This volume will be of particular interest to researchers in the areas of language and literacy education in L1 and L2, applied linguists interested in school, and academic contexts of writing, teacher educators and graduate students working in the fields of L1 and L2 writing.

 

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Contents

MAKING SOCIAL MEANINGS IN CONTEXTS
1
SOCIOCULTURAL DIFFERENCES 1N CH1LDRENS GENRE KNOWLEDGE
27
ENCULTURATION TO INSTITUTIONAL WRITING
49
WHOLECLASS AND PEER INTERACTION IN AN ACTIVITY OF WRITING AND REVISION
69
COCONSTRUCTING WRITING CONTEXTS IN CLASSROOMS
93
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND THE REPRODUCTION OF SCHOOL WRITTEN GENRES
117
STUDENT WRITING AS NEGOTIATION
137
WRITING FROM SOURCES IN TWO CULTURAL CONTEXTS
165
FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE USE DURING PLANNING PROCESSES
185
COLLABORATIVE WRITING GROUPS IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM
207
REACHING OUT FROM THE WRITING CLASSROOM
229
REFERENCES
247
SUBJECT INDEX
275
L1ST OF CONTR1BUTORS
277
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