scholarly journals The The Power of Deficit Discourses in Student Talk about Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
Shurli Makmillen ◽  
Kim Norman
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Student Talk ◽  
Cognitive Awareness ◽  
Institutional Positioning ◽  
Deficit Discourses

Does engagement with writing centre consultants in one-on-one consultations help students shift from remedial discourses toward meta-cognitive awareness more in keeping with the nature of peer review in an academic setting? This study investigates this question through looking longitudinally over a four-year period in a Canadian university writing centre. We situate this research within wider discussions of Standard English and remediation in student academic writing, as well as writing centre research that explores correlations between numbers of writing centre visits and both students’ confidence as writers and their intrinsic motivation. Using a corpus-supported genre and discourse analysis, we focus on student appointment requests, as well as summative writing centre consultant notes. Results suggest that deficit discourses are highly tenacious, which we explain in part as the result of the constraints inherent in the genre of requests for help, and also in terms of the institutional positioning of writing centres.

scholarly journals How do self-efficacy beliefs for academic writing and collaboration and intrinsic motivation for academic writing and research develop during an undergraduate research project?

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floris M. van Blankenstein ◽  
Nadira Saab ◽  
Roeland M. van der Rijst ◽  
Marleen S. Danel ◽  
Aaltje S. Bakker-van den Berg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Undergraduate Research Project

scholarly journals The Relationship between Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation and Medical Students’ L2 Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Sepideh Nourinezhad ◽  
Nasrin Shokrpour ◽  
Zahra Shahsavar
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
English Language ◽  
L2 Writing ◽  
Learning Skill ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
English Academic Writing ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the increasing interest in the need to increase the students’ learning motivation, there have been few attempts to determine the relationship between the students’ motivation and their L2 writing skill.The present study aimed at investigating the effect of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on Iranian medical students’ L2 writing. 100 EFL medical students (both males and females) who had enrolled in an English academic writing course held in English Language Department of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences participated in this study.We used a questionnaire to classify the students’ extrinsic/intrinsic motivation. The results showed that the students’ motivation has a positive effect on their writing. Moreover, students with intrinsic motivation were more successful than those with extrinsic motivation in L2 writing. This study can provide the instructors with an in-depth understanding of motivation as a key factor which can improve the students’ writing. Understanding different types of students’ motivation and what promotes their learning skill can assist the teachers in fostering positive and realistic beliefs to maximize their teaching in an educational setting.

scholarly journals For a Relational Critical Discourse Analysis

Stan Rzeczy ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 302-328
Author(s):  
Tomasz Zarycki
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Sociology Of Sociology ◽  
Institutional Positioning

This paper proposes a relational and critical sociological perspective on discourse analysis, in particular on so-called “Critical Discourse Analysis” (CDA). The main argument of this paper is that CDA has not yet been able to turn its critical perspective towards its own field. Meanwhile, neither CDA nor other schools of discourse analysis can still pretend not to be integral parts of the system legitimizing social hierarchies in modern societies. The paper argues that discourse analysis can be seen as highly dependent on power relations, both because of its institutional positioning and because of its restricted reflexivity. A call for the development of a critical sociology of discourse analysis based on a relational approach is therefore presented. Its draft programme is largely based on inspiration from the sociology of knowledge, in particular from “the sociology of sociology” of Pierre Bourdieu.

scholarly journals Mid Term Academic Writing Dennis Damajie 130418004

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Damajie
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Medical Device Industry ◽  
International Alliance ◽  
Tolerance Education ◽  
Device Industry

This paper is about International Alliance Strategies: A case study of the Indonesian Medical Device Industry and Researching Religious Tolerance Education Using Discourse Analysis: A Case Study from Indonesia

scholarly journals Us vs Them Positioning in Academic Setting: A Critical Discourse Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Sania Athar ◽  
Muhammad Yousaf ◽  
Azhar Habib
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province ◽  
Males And Females

This study attempts to analyze gender positioning in different social settings. For this purpose, Muted Group Theory plus Van Dijks Model (2007) from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have been employed to inspect gender positioning in the academic setting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. These models help in identifying the relation between various individuals and promoting person to person interaction. The gender critical discourse analysis helps in dissecting the irregularities in gender positioning and imbalances found between the males and females especially using language and the power relations which are built through various discourses. The different discourses gathered in this research study are qualitative in nature and are gathered from three famous universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The investigation uncovered that desultory techniques are used by male and female to support or resist each other.

scholarly journals Challenges in the Application of Genre Theory to Improve L2 Academic Writing: Effective Reports and Assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Martinez Lirola ◽  
Derek S. Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Report Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Teaching Learning

This paper examines the application of a systemic-functional linguistic (SFL) Genre Theory approach to an L2 classroom in Spain, where English systems and their formal and functional characteristics were explicated in the teaching-learning process in order to help students improve their writing skills. It analyses various facets of the effectiveness of this approach through a careful consideration of student report writing, first by analysing the assessors’ marking parameters and concentration, and second by thoroughly going through the papers themselves to summarise the nature and quantity of the various writing issues, paying particular attention to areas in which the existing assessment was questionable, incorrect, or not indicating errors in standard English.

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