Description: Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing : Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives, Paperback by Shrestha, Prithvi N., ISBN 3030558479, ISBN-13 9783030558475, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as Dynamic Assessment (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. DA blends instruction with assessment by targeting and further developing students’ Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). Th presents the application of DA to assessing academic writing by developing a set of DA procedures for academic writing teachers. It further demonstrates the application of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), combined with DA, to track undergraduate business management students’ academic writing and conceptual development in distance education. This work extends previous DA studies in three key ways: i) it explicitly focuses on the construction of a macrogenre (whole text) as opposed to investigations of decontextualized language fragments, ii) it offers the first in-depth application of the powerful SFL tool to analyse students’ academic writing to track their academic writing trajectory in DA research, and iii) it identifies a range of mediational strategies and consequently expands Poehner’s (2005) framework of mediation typologies. Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing will be of great value to academic writing researchers and teachers, language assessment researchers and postgraduate students interested in academic writing, alternative assessment and formative feedback in higher education.
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Book Title: Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing : Vygotskian and
Number of Pages: Xxvi, 246 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Dynamic Assessment of Students' Academic Writing : Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Subject: Educational Psychology, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
Author: Prithvi N. Shrestha
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
