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L1 and L2 Adolescents’ Perspectives on Writing within and across Academic Disciplines: Examining the Role of Agency in Development.
To investigate a diverse sample of adolescent writers’ experiences with disciplinary
writing, this study compared 66 adolescents’ perceptions of writing through an analysis
of interviews as part of a national study. Grounded in a social constructivist
framework that stresses the role of agency in the development of writing competence,
the study aims to examine factors – including language background and prior writing
experiences – that are associated with adolescents’ perceptions of their...
Show moreTo investigate a diverse sample of adolescent writers’ experiences with disciplinary
writing, this study compared 66 adolescents’ perceptions of writing through an analysis
of interviews as part of a national study. Grounded in a social constructivist
framework that stresses the role of agency in the development of writing competence,
the study aims to examine factors – including language background and prior writing
experiences – that are associated with adolescents’ perceptions of their writing
development. The study asked: How do native English speaking and English language
learning adolescents’ perceptions of writing development compare? To what
extent, if at all, is agency implicated in patterns of variation? Results of the comparative
analysis suggest that varying affordances and constraints, and combinations
of these, relate to adolescents’ expressed agency toward writing. Affordances include
opportunities to select personally relevant subjects and to develop writing through
feedback and revision processes; constraints include the use of highly structured
writing scaffolds, formulas, and tightly constrained topics. Implications for differentiated
scaffolding of writing instruction that might affectively and cognitively engage
diverse adolescent learners are discussed.
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- Jeffery, J.V.; Wilcox, K.C.
- Date
- 2016
- Journal
- Writing and Pedagogy
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 245 - 274