ERIC Number: EJ1466848
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-8458
EISSN: EISSN-1532-7701
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Voice for Teaching L2 Writing: Affordance or Constraint?
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, v24 n2 p396-412 2025
The mixed-method study firstly drew on regression analysis to check what influential variables were in constructing authorial voice of 45 Chinese MTI students (postgraduates) in an EFL writing course, and then based upon quantitative findings, qualitatively examined how students' EFL writing may resonate with voice teaching in the course with data from a questionnaire, student essays, and a follow-up interview. The quantitative findings located five influential statistically significant variables of authorial voice: The positively influential ones include "genre knowledge, stakeholders' expectation, awareness of reflection and revision," while the negative ones are "socially enabled positions" of major and career, and "individual knowledge required by certain discourse communities' norms and value systems." The qualitative findings indicated: "Awareness of reflection and revision" was valued in enabling both linguistic repertoire and ideation in EFL writing; "genre knowledge" could facilitate linguistic growth and structuring of writing. The fourfold pedagogical implication was also presented.
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Literary Genres, Authors, Graduate Students, Writing Processes, Student Attitudes, Essays, Reflection, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Skills, Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries, Course Descriptions, Writing Evaluation, Writing Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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Author Affiliations: 1Yunnan Minzu University