Attitudes of Second Language Students towards Self-Editing Their Own Written Texts

Autor/inn/en	Kasule, Daniel; Lunga, Violet B.
Titel	Attitudes of Second Language Students towards Self-Editing Their Own Written Texts
Quelle	In: Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 1 (2010) 1, S.61-72 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2079-8245
Schlagwörter	College Students; Student Attitudes; Writing Attitudes; Second Language Learning; Revision (Written Composition); Editing; Error Correction; Writing Improvement; English (Second Language); Peer Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Botswana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Korrektur; Redaktion; Textbearbeitung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland
Abstract	Recognizing students' deliberate efforts to minimize errors in their written texts is valuable in seeing them as responsible active agents in text creation. This paper reports on a brief survey of the attitudes towards self-editing of seventy university students using a questionnaire and class discussion. The context of the study is characterized by its emphasis on evaluating the finished written product. Findings show that students appreciate the role of self-editing in minimizing errors in their texts and that it helps in eventually producing well-written texts. Conceptualizing writing as discourse and therefore as social practice leads to an understanding of writers as socially-situated actors; repositions the student writer as an active agent in text creation; and is central to student-centred pedagogy. We recommend the recognition of self-editing as a vital element in the writing process and that additional error detection mechanisms namely peers, the lecturer, and the computer, increase student autonomy. (As Provided).
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