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Title: Learning from a corpus of students' academic writing
Other Title: Aprendiendo de un corpus de textos académicos de alumnos
Authors: Lopez-Ozieblo, R 
Issue Date: 44409
Source: Revista signos, Aug. 2021, v. 54, no. 106, p. 645-667
Abstract: This paper summarizes the results of a study based on students“ academic writings. The study is grounded on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory and pedagogy, in particular the 3x3 matrix, a SFL framework successfully implemented in Australian schools (Humphrey, Martin, Dreyfus & Mahboob, 2010) and the Teaching and Learning Cycle (Callaghan & Rothery, 1988). The study took place at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with 33 students from a Humanities content subject. This is an English medium of instruction higher education institution where, for most students, English is not their mother tongue. Samples of students' academic writing were analysed in the classroom to identify successful moves to express field, manner and tenor in the genre of argumentative essays. These samples were then used to provide specific writing instruction to students before they were asked to start constructing their texts independently. Feedback was provided in place of joint construction and finally students produced their final essays. Students' confidence levels on their writing abilities were measured, with knowledge surveys, at the beginning and end of the term, their final grades compared to those of the previous cohort and correlated with the end of term writing-ability confidence levels. Our results suggest that there was an increase in students' confidence in their writing abilities and that their grades were better than those of the previous cohort. When correlating grades with writing confidence levels we found two potential correlations, one positive for students with lower confidence levels and one negative for over-confident students.
Keywords: Knowledge Surveys
Second language writing
Writing Instruction
Publisher: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
Journal: Revista signos 
ISSN: 0035-0451
EISSN: 0718-0934
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-09342021000200645
Rights: © 2021 PUCV, Chile
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en)
The following publication Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Learning from a corpus of students’ academic writing. Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística, 54(106) is available at https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-09342021000200645
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