Building literacies in secondary school history: The specific contribution of academic writing support

This paper considers the specific role and effect of academic writing support in a secondary school Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context. After discussing the potential place for academic writing support in the ongoing process of fostering disciplinary literacy, we report on an ex...

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Veröffentlicht in:E-journALL Jg. 6; H. 1; S. 21 - 36
Hauptverfasser: Breeze, Ruth, Gerns Jiménez-Villarejo, Pilar
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: E-JournALL 31.08.2019
Schlagworte:
bilingual education
cognitive discourse functions
content and language integrated learning (clil)
disciplinary literacy
l2 writing
ISSN:2376-905X, 2376-905X
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Zusammenfassung:This paper considers the specific role and effect of academic writing support in a secondary school Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context. After discussing the potential place for academic writing support in the ongoing process of fostering disciplinary literacy, we report on an experimental study in which 45 Spanish secondary school students received a short academic writing module as part of their history course. The descriptions/explanations written in their post-tests were generally found to be more complete, with more explicit discourse markers and with better textual organization than the pre-tests. We discuss the implications of this for students’ progress towards disciplinary literacy.
ISSN:2376-905X
2376-905X
DOI:10.21283/2376905X.10.149