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Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing Pedagogy : Provoking and Assessing Development.

De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Casal, J. Elliott.
Contributor:
Kurtz, Lindsey M.
Qiu, Xixin.
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:
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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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