An Analysis of Effective and Less Effective EFL Writers' Processes and Products for a Reading-to-Write Task.

Autor/in	Lo, Ya-Fen
Titel	An Analysis of Effective and Less Effective EFL Writers' Processes and Products for a Reading-to-Write Task.
Quelle	In: Electronic journal of foreign language teaching, 8 (2011) 2, S. 154-169 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0219-9874
Schlagwörter	Fallstudie; Qualitative Forschung; Ausdrucksfähigkeit; Englischunterricht; Taiwan; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Lesen; Schreiben; Fallstudie; Schriftlicher Ausdruck; Ausdrucksfähigkeit; Methodik; Schriftlicher Ausdruck; Vergleichende Analyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englischunterricht; Lesen; Schreiben; Taiwan
Abstract	The study investigates the reading-to-write process of both effective and less effective EFL writers and their written products. The participants were three effective and three less effective EFL college writers from Taiwan. The data included think-aloud protocols, retrospective interviews, and the participants' written texts for a reading-to-write task. The data from verbal protocols were analyzed to investigate the strategy use during the reading-to-write process, while the written texts were examined for text features and critical thinking. A total 24 strategies were identified. The results revealed that the effective writers engaged in more strategic activities in terms of varieties and frequencies throughout the reading-to-write process. The analyses of text features of the written products showed clear differences in the mean length and scores of grammatical accu-racy between the two groups of writers. Although the analyses of critical thinking showed low critical think-ing scores for all the writers, the effective writers were found to be better at identifying problems and pre-senting clear perspectives. An analysis of the writing process and the written products revealed some interesting patterns between the strategy use and the quality of the products, which may indicate possible impacts of strategy use on writing performance and directions for future studies. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2