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Metadiscourse, Writer Identity and Reader Construction among Novice Arabic-Speaking ESL Writers
English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2019-12-30 , DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.19.2.6
Christina A DeCoursey 1
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This study used qualitative analyses to explore novice ESL writers’ concepts of writers, readers and texts. Metadiscourse studies tabulate frequencies of discourse markers in order to characterise the different ways novices and experts, native-speakers and non-native speakers, construct themselves as writers, engage with their readers, and guide readers through their text. But the picture created by these descriptive statistics lacks many content areas voiced by student writers, including their reliance on visual content, and their emotions. Student writers’ experiences in a world saturated by visual media and marketing views are also factors shaping how they construct their identities as writers, the identities of their projected readers, and how they understand what they are doing when writing text. This study used content and transitivity analyses to assess how Arabic native-speaker novices understand themselves as writers, how they project their readers’ identities, and how they try to engage them. Results show that visuals are indistinct from text, and verbs of seeing are used for reader understanding, in novice writers’ sense of their texts, and how they understand engaging the reader. These novices have a demographically granular assessment of audiences, but aim to please readers with expected content rather than challenge them with academic content, and they downplay important elements of teacher talk, syllabus and second-language (L2) composition instruction, particularly data, research, structure and language.

中文翻译:

新手讲英语的ESL作家中的元话语,作家身份和读者建构

这项研究使用定性分析来探索新手ESL作家的作家,读者和文本的概念。元话语研究对话语标记的频率进行制表,以表征新手和专家,以母语为母语的人和以非母语为母语的人以不同的方式,将自己塑造为作家,与读者互动,并通过文字指导读者。但是,由这些描述性统计数据创建的图片缺乏学生作家表达的许多内容领域,包括他们对视觉内容的依赖以及他们的情感。学生作家在视觉媒体和营销观点所浸透的世界中的经历,也是决定他们如何构建作家身份,所计划的读者身份以及他们如何理解编写文字时所经历的因素。这项研究使用内容和可及性分析来评估阿拉伯语的新手如何理解自己作为作家,他们如何投射读者的身份以及如何与他们互动。结果表明,视觉效果与文本没有区别,视觉动词用于阅读者的理解,新手作家对文本的理解以及他们如何理解读者的理解。这些新手对受众群体进行了人口统计学的评估,但其目的是取悦具有预期内容的读者,而不是向他们挑战学术内容,他们淡化了教师演讲,教学大纲和第二语言(L2)写作指导的重要要素,尤其是数据,研究,结构和语言。以及他们如何吸引他们。结果表明,视觉效果与文本没有区别,视觉动词用于阅读者的理解,新手作家对文本的理解以及他们如何理解读者的理解。这些新手对受众群体进行了人口统计学的评估,但其目的是取悦具有预期内容的读者,而不是向他们挑战学术内容,他们淡化了教师演讲,教学大纲和第二语言(L2)写作指导的重要要素,尤其是数据,研究,结构和语言。以及他们如何吸引他们。结果表明,视觉效果与文本没有区别,视觉动词用于阅读者的理解,新手作家对文本的理解以及他们如何理解读者的理解。这些新手对受众群体进行了人口统计学的评估,但其目的是取悦具有预期内容的读者,而不是向他们挑战学术内容,他们淡化了教师演讲,教学大纲和第二语言(L2)写作指导的重要要素,尤其是数据,研究,结构和语言。
更新日期:2019-12-30
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