Exploring the Effects of Web-Based Communication Tasks on the Development and Transferability of Audience Awareness in L2 Writers

Autor/inn/en	Sasaki, Miyuki; Baba, Kyoka; Nitta, Ryo; Matsuda, Paul Kei
Titel	Exploring the Effects of Web-Based Communication Tasks on the Development and Transferability of Audience Awareness in L2 Writers
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43 (2020) 3, S.277-301 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sasaki, Miyuki)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
Schlagwörter	Audience Awareness; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Social Networks; Writing (Composition); Computer Mediated Communication; Language Styles; College Students; Student Attitudes; Transfer of Training; Writing Instruction; Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Social Media; Persuasive Discourse; Web Sites; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Schreibübung; Computerkonferenz; Sprachstil; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Schreibunterricht; Ausland; Soziale Medien; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Web-Design
Abstract	This article reports on two quasi-experimental studies that investigated the possible development and transfer of audience awareness in novice EFL writers as they engaged in online writing tasks through a Social Networking Service (SNS). Japanese students from two universities were asked to write, read, and comment on other students' writing once a week. The two studies were arranged sequentially so as to capture in an exploratory but jointly illuminating manner whether and how the "elusive" (Hyland, 2005) construct of "sense of audience" can develop and transfer across genres. The results of both studies suggest that the SNS environment can help L2 writers develop audience awareness and transfer that awareness across genres when two conditions are met: (1) the genre of the SNS tasks should be perceived as similar to that for which transfer was expected; and (2) the students did not develop a sense of audience in previous writing instruction. (As Provided).
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