کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
9952006 1436304 2018 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Frameworks for failure in L2 writing: What we can learn from “failures” of Chinese international students in the US
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Frameworks for failure in L2 writing: What we can learn from “failures” of Chinese international students in the US
چکیده انگلیسی
The Framework for success in postsecondary writing (2011) outlines 8 habits of mind that are assumed to be essential for success in college writing. However, as Gross and Alexander (2016) argue, in their critique of the Framework for success, while it is commendable to focus on ways to help students succeed, the focus on student success and the positive feelings associated with success draw attention away from considering that is not necessarily the students who are the problem but perhaps the institutional systems themselves. They thus propose a “frameworks for failure.” This article aims to develop Gross and Alexander's (2016) work by imagining the “frameworks for failure” that are specific to L2 writing. This study analyzes 10 narratives of multilingual undergraduate students, specifically Chinese international students, who previously failed an ESL writing course at a large, public 4-year institution in the US. It additionally analyzes interviews with instructors and writing consultants with experience working with L2 students. The analysis reveals what I call a continuum of failure in L2 writing, which suggests that students' failure results not only from a lack of these “habits of mind” but also from various systemic issues. Therefore, instead of merely finding ways to promote student “success,” as the Framework for success recommends, it is more urgent to reexamine some institutionalized assumptions about L2 writers in English-dominant contexts in tandem with how monolingual and monocultural instruction potentially caters toward a certain type of learner (domestic students with the “appropriate” habitus). The article concludes with recommendations to make productive use of students' “failures.”
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Second Language Writing - Volume 41, September 2018, Pages 98-105
نویسندگان
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