Reading the context.

Autor/inn/en	Schlumberger, Ann; Mangelsdorf, Kate
Titel	Reading the context.
Quelle	(1989), 23 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	Mikroform; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Soziale Herkunft; Schriftliche Übung; Diskursanalyse; Linguistik; Rhetorik; Stil; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englisch; Lesen; Leseübung; Muttersprache; Kulturkunde; Hochschule; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Konferenzmaterial; Kontrastierung; Ausländer
Abstract	A study investigated whether exposure to contrastive rhetoric would deepen international students' awareness of first- and second-language conventions characterizing their own and other students' writing. Participants included 46 University of Arizona students who represented a variety of language backgrounds and were enrolled in four sections of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) freshman composition. One week of class time was devoted to a presentation on contrastive rhetoric, and writing sample were collected from each student. From the samples, aspects of the writers' purpose, message, tone, and audience were analyzed. The features noted were then charted and discussed in class. Finally, the students' reactions to the contrastive rhetoric lesson and chart were expressed in freewriting exercises. No evidence emerged that consciousness of first-language rhetorical conventions makes adoption of second-language discourse patterns easier. However, it was concluded that awareness of context, enhanced by knowledge of linguistic and rhetorical forms, is a valid objecitve in ESL writing instruction.
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	1996_(CD)