The Role of Cross-Disciplinary Academic Language Skills in Disciplinary, Source-Based Writing: Investigating the Role of Core Academic Language Skills in Science Summarization for Middle Grade Writers

Autor/inn/en	Phillips Galloway, Emily; Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola; Barr, Christopher D.
Titel	The Role of Cross-Disciplinary Academic Language Skills in Disciplinary, Source-Based Writing: Investigating the Role of Core Academic Language Skills in Science Summarization for Middle Grade Writers
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 33 (2020) 1, S.13-44 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Phillips Galloway, Emily) Weitere Informationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-019-09942-x
Schlagwörter	Interdisciplinary Approach; Academic Language; Language Skills; Content Area Writing; Writing (Composition); Science Instruction; Middle School Students; Receptive Language; Reading Comprehension; Text Structure; Documentation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Schriftliche Übung; Schreibübung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Leseverstehen; Textstruktur; Dokumentation
Abstract	Learning to use language in order to complete source-based writing tasks is a challenge for middle grade writers worthy of additional study, especially given that these tasks are increasingly common in classrooms. Here, we examined the contribution of receptive and productive cross-disciplinary academic language skills to the writing quality of middle graders' science summaries, after accounting for students' sociodemographic characteristics, their comprehension of the science source text, and general summary features (i.e., length and copy ratio). Our results suggest that the ability to produce a high-quality science summary is predominately driven by the writers' receptive academic language proficiency, comprehension of the source text and productive academic language used when writing, including text length. We contend that these results are illuminating because of the joint examination of students' productive and receptive academic language skills. In addition, this study attempts to unpack the relation between summary length and quality, identifying levels of receptive academic language skills as an important moderator. These findings have the potential to advance the current understanding of malleable factors associated with science writing proficiency, as well as with those associated with source-based writing more generally. (As Provided).
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