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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Autores: Breeze, R. (Ruth)|||/items/7ed8c094-9113-4a01-b482-0f13011d1cc0, Gerns, P. (Pilar)|||/items/167b6d4e-fd1e-4258-b6ef-a490143a5b38
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/59040
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/59040
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
Bilingual education
Disciplinary literacy
L2 writing
Cognitive discourse functions
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Sumario: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.