Developing Academic Literacy and Voice: Challenges Faced by A Mature esl Student and Her Instructors

dc.creator	Correa Doris
dc.date	2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:30:51Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:30:51Z
dc.identifier	1657-0790
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ad6f82baa2b24c4ea5d0f8cd2416015e
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22352
dc.description	Drawing on critical, socio-cultural and sociolinguistic theories of writing, text and voice, this ethnographic study examines the challenges that a mature ESL student and her instructors in a university course on Spanish Language Media face as they co-construct a common understanding of academic literacy and voice in an undergraduate General Studies Program offered by a university in Western Massachusetts. Intertextual analysis of the data suggests that traditional product-based approaches to helping students develop academic literacy might not be very effective. However, to be able to take a different approach, such as the one suggested by genre scholars, both faculty teaching content subjects and writing tutors would need appropriate training. Key words: ESL writing, academic writing, academic voice, disciplinary writing Con base en teorías críticas, socioculturales y sociolingüísticas sobre escritura académica, texto y voz, este estudio etnográfico explora los retos que enfrentan una estudiante hablante de inglés como segunda lengua y sus profesores de un curso de Medios de Comunicación en Lengua Española al construir conjuntamente los conceptos de literacias académicas y de voz en un curso de pregrado en estudios generales ofrecido por una universidad en Massachusetts. El análisis intertextual de los datos recogidos muestra que algunos métodos tradicionales dirigidos a la elaboración de productos pueden resultar poco efectivos para apoyar el desarrollo de la escritura académica. Sin embargo, se concluye que para usar metodologías más efectivas, como las propuestas por las teorías de género, es indispensable que tanto los profesores de las diferentes materias como los tutores reciban el entrenamiento adecuado. Palabras clave: escritura de inglés como segunda lengua, escritura académica, voz académica, escritura disciplinaria
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
dc.relation	http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/13835
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1657-0790
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2010)
dc.subject	ESL writing, academic writing, academic voice, disciplinary writing
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Developing Academic Literacy and Voice: Challenges Faced by A Mature esl Student and Her Instructors
dc.type	article