"A Class for Students like Me": Reconsidering Relationships among Identity Labels, Residency Status, and Students' Preferences for Mainstream or Multilingual Composition

Autor/inn/en	Costino, Kimberly A.; Hyon, Sunny
Titel	"A Class for Students like Me": Reconsidering Relationships among Identity Labels, Residency Status, and Students' Preferences for Mainstream or Multilingual Composition
Quelle	In: Journal of Second Language Writing, 16 (2007) 2, S.63-81 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1060-3743
DOI	10.1016/j.jslw.2007.04.001
Schlagwörter	Writing Research; Multilingualism; Language Aptitude; Basic Writing; Interdisciplinary Approach; Applied Linguistics; College Students; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Interviews; Writing (Composition); Immigrants; Foreign Students; Language Skills; Student Placement; Mainstreaming; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibforschung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachbegabung; Spracheignung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Collegestudent; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schreibübung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Schülerpraktikum; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht
Abstract	This paper reports on a cross-disciplinary study by an L1 compositionist and an applied linguist investigating interrelationships among university basic writing students' responses to linguistic identity labels, their residency statuses, and their preferences for mainstream or multilingual composition. Previous L2 writing research has suggested predictive links among these factors, but little research has examined such links in a diverse multilingual student population. Data for this study come from interviews with nine students of varying residency statuses (U.S.-born, U.S.-resident immigrant, and international) who had completed either a mainstream or a multilingual section of basic writing and a subsequent mainstream first-year composition (FYC) course. The authors found that the students across the three residency groups understood identity labels primarily in relation to strong or weak language ability, although they varied in their definitions of some of these labels. In addition, no consistent pattern emerged as to which residency group affiliated with which labels. Nor were students' label affiliations clearly linked to their preferences for a mainstream or multilingual composition course. Students from both class sections, however, expressed that they preferred their section because it addressed their language abilities and had students who were "like" them. The authors consider implications of their findings for multilingual and mainstream writing program placement and curriculum practices. (Author).
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