2016
DOI: 10.1558/wap.26864
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Agency, identity and ideology in L2 writing

Abstract: This study reports on how agency, identity and ideology played out in an L2 writing classroom. It investigated 31 L2 writers’ agency, identity and ideology as they accomplished their writing assignments in a required first-year composition class at a large North American university. The data for the study were collected from four different sources: (a) interviews with each participant; (b) process logs kept by each participant for the entire duration of the assignment; (c) class materials; and (d) classroom ob… Show more

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“…The presence of social and/or material resources in the immediate environment was inseparably linked to all of his revision strategies. This is comparable to the findings reported by Lei (2008) and Bhowmik (2016). However, the study further offers an insight into how the writer selected his specific revision strategies.…”
Section: Agency and Alignment With The Environmentsupporting
confidence: 87%
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“…The presence of social and/or material resources in the immediate environment was inseparably linked to all of his revision strategies. This is comparable to the findings reported by Lei (2008) and Bhowmik (2016). However, the study further offers an insight into how the writer selected his specific revision strategies.…”
Section: Agency and Alignment With The Environmentsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…As several researchers claimed that writing is a historically situated activity (e.g., Leki, 1995;Prior, 1998), Jiang's specific belief appeared to have been a carry-over from his past successful learning experience in China and preordained the way in which he engaged with the instructor's feedback and employed several revision strategies. The finding is comparable to Bhowmik (2016) which reported the participants actively used their past writing experiences to facilitate the completion of the writing task at hand. Leki (1995) also reported a similar finding that her participants' writing strategy use closely mirrored their past successful writing experiences.…”
Section: Agency As a Historical Antecedent To Writing At The Momentsupporting
confidence: 75%
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