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Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing Pedagogy : Provoking and Assessing Development.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Casal, J. Elliott.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (157 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book presents an interdisciplinary, flexible and comprehensive framework for teaching second language (L2) and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors show how L2 writing instructors can empower student writers to be agentive, aware and strategic in their writing.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- What This Book Is About
- How (and Why) This Book Came to Be
- Overview of the Book
- Chapter 2: Key Principles and Concepts
- Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy
- Multiple approaches to genre
- Explicit instruction and awareness raising in genre-based writing
- Concept-Based Language Instruction
- The mediated mind and psychological tools
- The phases of concept-based language instruction
- A Concept-Based Genre Writing Pedagogy Framework
- Chapter 3: Legal Writing: Context and Pedagogy
- Legal Systems as Languacultures
- Legal Analogical Reasoning: A Definition
- US Legal Education: A Languaculture
- Study Context
- The Companion Course
- Participants
- The Curriculum
- Case reading cycles
- The Concept-Based Genre Writing Curriculum
- Data sources and analysis
- Analyzing development
- Chapter 4: Legal Writing: Findings and Implications
- Legal Analogical Reasoning
- Jun
- Analysis of Jun's development as a common law legal writer
- Concept development in legal analogical reasoning
- Discussion and Conclusions
- Chapter 5: Graduate Academic Writing: Context, Concepts and Pedagogy
- Pedagogical Context and Participants
- The Target Concepts
- Scientific concepts and corpus linguistics
- Shell nouns
- Rhetorical moves
- Description of Pedagogy and Data Sources
- Analytical Procedures
- Chapter 6: Graduate Academic Writing: Findings and Implications
- Mona: Agency and Autonomy through Resistance and Creativity
- Lucía: Scrutiny, Playfulness and Innovation
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7: Engineering Writing: Context and Pedagogy
- Type of Clauses
- Intra-Sentence Discoursal Functions
- Grammatical Stance Expressions
- Inter-Sentence Flow and Emphasis.
- Pedagogical Materials Development
- Data Source
- Definition activity handouts
- Sentence rewriting activity handouts
- Corpus query activity handouts
- Self-assessment activity handouts
- Screen recordings
- Stimulated recalls
- Chapter 8: Engineering Writing: Findings and Implications
- Geyao's Development of Grammatical Stance Expressions
- Geyao's prior knowledge of the sentence-level linguistic concepts in engineering writing
- Geyao's Verbalization in Self-Assessment Activities
- Geyao's definition at the end of the instruction
- Geyao's Verbalization in Stimulated Recalls for Post-Intervention Revisions
- Geyao's Definition at the Delayed Interview
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Implications and Considerations for Other Contexts
- Emerging Points of Intersection
- Concept-Based Genre Writing pedagogy as a continuum
- Mediating the mediation
- Presence of all phases in nearly all activity
- Learner perceptions of growth
- Learning is revolutionary
- Practical Questions for Practice
- How do I select the genre(s) to teach?
- How do I identify a concept for C-BLI?
- How do I develop a holistic and complete definition of a concept?
- How related are the concepts to the genres in pedagogy?
- How do I develop a SCOBA?
- Why and how do I gather students' prior knowledge of a concept
- What makes an activity concrete and practical?
- How do I develop skills to work with students while they are languaging?
- How does text analysis stimulate student verbalization/languaging?
- How do I know if it's working? What does development look like?
- Final Thoughts
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Casal, J. Elliott Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing Pedagogy
- ISBN:
- 9781800412583
- OCLC:
- 1547906280
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