عنوان

Examining the Effectiveness of Corpus-Informed Instruction of Reporting Verbs in L2 First-Year College Writing

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عنوان اصلي

Examining the Effectiveness of Corpus-Informed Instruction of Reporting Verbs in L2 First-Year College Writing

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Shin, Ji-young; Velázquez, Ashley J.; Swatek, Aleksandra; Staples, Shelley; Partridge, R. Scott

متن يادداشت

Previous research has shown that developing second language (L2) academic writers use a limited set of reporting verbs in comparison to more advanced writers (Biber & Reppen, 1998; Hinkel, 2003; Kwon, Staples, & Partridge, 2018; Neff et al., 2003; Staples & Reppen, 2016). These writers also tend to rely on verbs that are typical for conversation (Biber et al., 1999). The present study examines the effects of corpus-informed instruction on developing L2 writers' learning of reporting verbs in a first-year writing course by comparing drafts of literature reviews before and after a workshop. The forty-five-minute workshop was designed to improve L2 writers' lexical and functional uses of reporting verbs using corpus-informed materials. The researchers compared the literature review drafts written by 40 students who participated in the workshop to 38 randomly chosen drafts from our corpus. The results show an increase in the experimental groups' reporting verb lexical variety and a decrease in the use of verb types used in speech in favor of types used in academic writing. The results suggest that corpus-informed instruction may support L2 writers in the development of lexical and functional reporting verb use.

تاريخ نشر

2018

عنوان

L2 Journal

شماره جلد

10/3

عنصر شناسه اي

Shin, Ji-young; Velázquez, Ashley J.; Swatek, Aleksandra; Staples, Shelley; Partridge, R. Scott

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y