Assessing Learning Transfer and Constraining Issues in EAP Writing Practices

Autor/in	Wubalem, Abebe Yitbarek
Titel	Assessing Learning Transfer and Constraining Issues in EAP Writing Practices
Quelle	In: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 6 (2021), Artikel 17 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wubalem, Abebe Yitbarek)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2363-5169
DOI	10.1186/s40862-021-00122-5
Schlagwörter	Transfer of Training; Barriers; Academic Language; English for Academic Purposes; Writing Instruction; Writing Teachers; College Faculty; College Students; Writing Processes; Writing Skills; Thinking Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Schreibunterricht; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate what learners carry over from a general academic writing course to disciplinary writing settings and the variables constraining the quality of the outcome. Seven EFL university writing teachers and 58 students were selected using purposive and stratified sampling techniques. Data were generated using in-depth interview and document analysis. Thematic analysis and non-parametric statistical tools were employed to analyze the data. The findings showed that the students made limited learning transfer from the writing course to their writing settings across academic discourses. While surface level knowledge of grammatical features show better transfer, skills of discourse level writing processes, thinking strategies and vocabulary showed very poor transfer. A number of reasons are identified for the failure of learning transfer in the study setting. Among others, EAP teachers' failure to bridge the EFL writing and content area writing practice contributed to this problem. The other variable causing this problem is students' failure to make significant moves to adapt skills of writing processes and thinking strategies to new situations. Based on these evidences, alternative ways of improving the carryover impact of such courses have been put forward. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01