Shaping Writing Grades Collocation and Writing Context Effects

"This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme. Comprising three studies, this Element is anchored in understanding phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation, and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by considering the implications of this modelling for assessment"--

Zusammenfassung

This Element provides a comprehensive overview of collocation and writing quality as an area of academic scholarship and discusses the need for more multivariate research in studies that focus on understanding relationships between collocations and writing quality grades.

Vorwort

This Element explores the relationships between collocations, writing quality grades, and relevant contextual and learner variables.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lee (Coventry University) Durrant Mccallum, Philip Durrant, Lee McCallum
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2022
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen > Erwachsenenbildung/Volkshochschule > VHS-/Kursmaterialien Sprache; Kinder- und Jugendbücher > Sachbücher / Sachbilderbücher
• EAN: 9781009074445
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907444-5
• Anzahl Seiten: 75
• Serie: Elements in Corpus Linguistics
• Themen: Linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Language learning: specific skills; Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction; Educational: English language: reading & writing skills