This document discusses 13 ways that discourse analysis can improve second language writing skills. It outlines techniques for analyzing different levels of text, from individual sentences to overall document structure. These include identifying discourse markers, linkages between sections, recognizing genre conventions, and leveraging information from text features like titles and headings. The goal is to make implicit writing conventions explicit in order to socialize students into academic communities of practice and empower them as confident writers.
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Final 13 ways discourse analysis can improve tesol 2011
1. 13 Ways Discourse Analysis Can Improve Second Language Writer Skill Susan Olmstead-Wang, PhD TESOL 2011 New Orleans March 18, 2011
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Notes de l'éditeur
AWG says it well, “ . . . Approach is analytical and rhetorical: users are asked to apply their analytical skills to the discourses of their chosen disciplines and to explore how effective academic writing is achieved” (p. 2)
“ Disciplinary and transdiciplinary implications” (Lovitts 2007) Funnel = from the broad “everything” to the focus of the present study; paragraph, sentence
Skip beyond “guess my rule”, “socialized into the culture of the assignment and its performance expectations” p. xi explicit = explicating the rules, “performance expectations used formatively, not (only) summatively” For the many L2 writers who were taught bottom up (bits of grammar, vocabulary words up) local to global
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Here: Levels numbered 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 from CAPS down to italics
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