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Undergraduate ESL students' engagement in academic reading and writing in learning to write a synthesis paper

Reading in a foreign language, 2015-10, Vol.27 (2), p.219 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center Oct 2015 ;ISSN: 1539-0578 ;EISSN: 1539-0578

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Title:
Undergraduate ESL students' engagement in academic reading and writing in learning to write a synthesis paper
Author: Zhao, Ruilan ; Hirvela, Alan
Subjects: Academic Discourse ; Academic writing ; Asian students ; Asians ; Chinese languages ; College Faculty ; College students ; English (Second Language) ; English as a second language ; English as a second language instruction ; Foreign Students ; Language Teachers ; Learning Experience ; Literacy ; Observation ; Qualitative Research ; Reading comprehension ; Reading instruction ; Reading Strategies ; Reading Writing Relationship ; Recall (Psychology) ; Second Language Instruction ; Second Language Learning ; Second language writing ; Semi Structured Interviews ; Task Analysis ; Teaching Methods ; Undergraduate Students ; United States (Midwest) ; Writing (Composition) ; Writing Instruction ; Writing processes
Is Part Of: Reading in a foreign language, 2015-10, Vol.27 (2), p.219
Description: As an important and a challenging source-based writing task, synthesizing offers rich opportunities to explore the connections between reading and writing. In this article, we report findings from a qualitative study of two Chinese students' learning experiences with academic synthesis writing in a university ESL composition course. Specifically, we discuss how the two students' understanding of synthesis and sources influenced their synthesis writing practices and how they perceived the connections between their reading strategies and synthesis writing processes. Our results reveal that the students' understanding of synthesis and the functions of sources played a crucial role in learning to synthesize, as did their ability to use rhetorical reading strategies to complete this new literacy task. We argue that whether second language (L2) students understand the complex reading-writing relationships underlying synthesizing is crucial for their successful textual production. These findings carry valuable implications for understanding reading and writing connections and teaching L2 source-based writing.
Publisher: Honolulu: University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1539-0578
EISSN: 1539-0578
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Undergraduate ESL students' engagement in academic reading and writing in learning to write a synthesis paper

Copyright University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center Oct 2015 ;ISSN: 1539-0578 ;EISSN: 1539-0578

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