Papers by Alasdair Archibald
Publikationsansicht. 5298015. The acquisition of discourse proficiency :--a study of the ability ... more Publikationsansicht. 5298015. The acquisition of discourse proficiency :--a study of the ability of German school students to produce written texts in English as a foreign language /--Alasdair Neil Archibald. (1994). Archibald, Alasdair Neil. Abstract. ...
Learning and Instruction, 2000
Quaderns De Filologia Estudis Linguistics, 2011
International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Writing in a second language is a complex activity requiring proficiency in a number of different... more Writing in a second language is a complex activity requiring proficiency in a number of different areas. Writing programmes often focus on particular areas of ski11 and knowledge that are seen as important to the overall process. This study looks at the effects of the focus of teaching on student writing. Fi@ students on an eight-week pre-sessional programme were asked to write a 250-word assignment at the start and the end of their courses. These were graded on a nineband scale using a seven-trait multiple-trait scoring system. The results show that discourse organisation and argumentation, which were the primary focus of classroom study, improved more than other areas. This suggests that tutors should look at writing proficiency in terms of an overall balance of proficiencies and that targeting aspects of student writing can affect this overall balance.
IJES, International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Writing in a second language is a complex activity requiring proficiency in a number of different... more Writing in a second language is a complex activity requiring proficiency in a number of different areas. Writing programmes often focus on particular areas of ski11 and knowledge that are seen as important to the overall process. This study looks at the effects of the focus of teaching on student writing. Fi@ students on an eight-week pre-sessional programme were asked to write a 250-word assignment at the start and the end of their courses. These were graded on a nineband scale using a seven-trait multiple-trait scoring system. The results show that discourse organisation and argumentation, which were the primary focus of classroom study, improved more than other areas. This suggests that tutors should look at writing proficiency in terms of an overall balance of proficiencies and that targeting aspects of student writing can affect this overall balance.
ELT Journal, 2006
talks to Alasdair Archibald about learner strategies. alasdair archibald We're here to talk about... more talks to Alasdair Archibald about learner strategies. alasdair archibald We're here to talk about strategies and we have a choice of terms: learner strategies or learning strategies, which do you prefer? steven mcdonough Actually I prefer the term learner strategies because for me the term 'learning strategies' is more restricted. There are lots of things that learners do which may not contribute directly to their learning, but do contribute, for example, to their use of the language and to their ability to monitor what they are doing, etc., all of which seem to be characteristic of learners but aren't directly learning strategies in the sense that they necessarily make the stock of language that the learner's got larger at that point.
Learning and Instruction, 2000
Writing is a complex activity whose components and sub-components involve action on a number of l... more Writing is a complex activity whose components and sub-components involve action on a number of levels. It is multifaceted, requiring proficiency in several areas of skill and knowledge that make up writing only when taken together. Research into writing has mirrored this complexity and has developed concurrently in a number of disciplines — in psychology and the cognitive sciences, text linguistics and pragmatics, applied linguistics and first and second language education.This special issue of Learning and Instruction is a collection of four papers that represent different aspects of current research into writing in a second language. They do not cover the full range of research into this area of writing, but serve as examples of the depth and breadth of study in this one particular part of the field. They are introduced here within the context of a discussion of current interests in writing research and each of the papers will be presented within the research area into which it most reasonably fits.
Vol. 1(2). by Alasdair Archibald
International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Writing in a second language is a complex activity requiring proficiency in a number of different... more Writing in a second language is a complex activity requiring proficiency in a number of different areas. l Writing programmes often focus on particular areas of skill and knowledge that are seen as important to the overall process. This study looks at the effects of the focus of teaching on student writing. Fifty students on an eight-week pre-sessional programme were asked to write a 250-word assignment at the start and the end of their courses. These were graded on a nineband scale using a seven-trait multiple-trait scoring system. The results show that discourse organisation and argumentation, which were the primary focus of classroom study, improved more than other areas. This suggests that tutors should look at writing proficiency in terms of an overall balance of proficiencies and that targeting aspects of student writing can affect this overall balance.
Uploads
Papers by Alasdair Archibald
Vol. 1(2). by Alasdair Archibald