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"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. FYC programmes and the writing context; 3. Review of collocation-writing quality studies; 4. Methodology; 5. Study one: the cluster analysis; 6. Study two: the statistical modelling; 7. Study three: qualitative understandings of writing quality; 8. Conclusions; References.

Summary

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.

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: Philip Durrant, Lee McCallum, Lee (Coventry University) Durrant Mccallum
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781009074445
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907444-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language learning: specific skills, Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills