The evolution of the Computers and Writing Conference, the second decade

This study proposed a three-step writing conference in which foreign/second language (L2) students, under the guidance of their writing instructor, first fastened their attentional focus on a form-related error, analysed a collection of standard L2 samples to deduce the underlying knowledge, and then planned for their error correction as well as future learning of this knowledge. The ultimate goal of this formative assessment practice was to scaffold student engagement with written corrective feedback (WCF). Using a between-group experiment design, the present study compared the effects on the success rate of error correction and L2 uptake of the above writing conference ( n = 14) against those brought about by a typical Teacher–Student ( n = 12) and a typical Student–Student one ( n = 12). Research participants were 38 intermediate learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) recruited from three intact classes at a language-learning center in Vietnam. The suggested writing conference was indeed found to yield better error correction and L2 uptake than the other counterparts. A closer look at the students’ mental engagement with WCF revealed that such engagement was moderately correlated with their L2 uptake. These findings altogether suggest that student engagement with WCF should not be taken for granted or, in other words, this engagement should be contingently supported by the writing instructor in order to foster learning from WCF.

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Pedagogical Discourse in the Writing Conference

Selected Papers in Mother Tongue Education / Etudes en Pédagogie de la Langue Maternelle ◽

10.1515/9783110857627-007 ◽

1987 ◽

pp. 49-60

Author(s):

Sarah W. Freedman

Keyword(s):

Pedagogical Discourse ◽

Writing Conference

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Life Writing Trajectories in Post-1989 Eastern Europe

European Journal of Life Writing ◽

10.5463/ejlw.2.51 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. T1-T9 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ioana Luca ◽

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Life Writing ◽

The Other ◽

Writing Conference ◽

Conceptual Frame ◽

The One ◽

Cultural Entity ◽

Conference Papers

In May 2011, the second IABA Europe conference, entitled "Trajectories of(Be)longing: Europe in Life Writing", took place at Tallinn University, Estonia. The conference discussed questions regarding the possibility and productivity of specifically European modes and practices of life writing. Conference sessions focused on spatial mappings and sites of story-telling about Europe in life writing and their temporal dynamics with respectto major historical ruptures and transformations. The lines of inquiry focused, on the one hand, on how the modes and practices of auto/biographical representation were structured around a sense of belonging toor longing for Europe and, and on the other, on contestation, rejection and transgression of such modes of identification. Addressing the conceptual frame of Europe as a geographical, political, social and cultural entity, the conference papers explored the ways in which “life-mapping” constructs, confirms, contradicts, and erases borders within and in relation to Europe, also raising the question of Europe (and its possible Europeanness) within a larger and more fluid global framework.

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