The Writing Conference as a Locus of Emergent Agency

Autor/inn/en	Strauss, Susan; Xiang, Xuehua
Titel	The Writing Conference as a Locus of Emergent Agency
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 23 (2006) 4, S.355-396 (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/0741088306292286
Schlagwörter	Teacher Student Relationship; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Metacognition; English (Second Language); Discourse Analysis; Student Development; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Writing Processes; Basic Writing; College Students; Student Attitudes; Conferences; Higher Education; Self Efficacy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Diskursanalyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit
Abstract	This article examines writing conference discourse in one English as a Second Language (ESL) basic composition course. The study is based on a 25,000-word corpus of 10 writing conference interactions between the instructor and seven students. Through a microlevel analysis, the authors demonstrate how and to what degree the writing conference can serve as a locus of "emergent agency," with a particular focus on the second-language writer. The data exhibit patterns in the students' discourse such that earlier segments in the interactions tend to reflect uncertainty, confusion, negative self-evaluation, and negative other-evaluation. As the sessions progress, the authors note shifts in stance whereby students begin to propose candidate solutions to actual or perceived problems and evince more authorial direction. The authors demonstrate that the practice can serve as an effective pedagogical activity in which novice writers learn to navigate through challenges and obstacles associated with university-level reading and writing tasks. (Contains 8 tables and 7 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10