WRITING EXPLANATIONS AND ARGUMENTS IN SCHOOL: writing quality and academic language (skills and resources) in Chilean 8th graders
This research determined whether the academic language -measured in terms of receptive skills and productive resources- predict the writing quality of explanations and arguments in Chilean 8th graders of three socioeconomic groups. This study is framed from the development of language, which conceiv...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Chile |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.anid.cl:10533/232972 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10533/232972 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ciencias Sociales Ciencias de la Educación Otras Especialidades de la Educación |
| Sumario: | This research determined whether the academic language -measured in terms of receptive skills and productive resources- predict the writing quality of explanations and arguments in Chilean 8th graders of three socioeconomic groups. This study is framed from the development of language, which conceives it as a skill that develops during all schooling (Berman, 2004); the sociocultural approach, which includes writing as an interactive, social and situated activity (Bazerman, 2004); the discursive genre, since its knowledge cross all linguistic and discursive domains (Snow & Uccelli, 2009); and academic language defined as the language of school texts or the language of science (Uccelli & Meneses, 2015). Four articles are presented. In the first, the quality of the writing was operationalized, for which the instrument was structurally validated. In the second, the differences in the performances according to homework, GSE and sex of the students were determined. In the third article, the contribution of the Key Skills of Language and Academic Vocabulary in the quality of explanations and arguments was determined. Finally, the contribution of productive academic language resources was analyzed. This research contributes to understand what language skills are relevant to foster in learning contexts to increase the development of writing. |
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