Sociocultural Theory, Dynamic Assessment and Academic Writing
This chapter begins by explaining sociocultural theory as expounded by the Russian psychologist Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and his followers, and presenting a sociocultural view of academic writing, academic writing as a communicative purpose-oriented and m
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Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives
Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing
Prithvi N. Shrestha
Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives
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Prithvi N. Shrestha School of Lang and Applied Linguistics The Open University Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-55844-4 ISBN 978-3-030-55845-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55845-1
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Preface
This book originates in my long-term interest in how assessment can support student learning, particularly academic writing development. As an academic writing teacher and researcher, I have encountered issues around students’ academic writing when teaching and marking assignments on discipline-based academic writing courses. I wanted to address these issues through systematic research, thereby enabling myself to formally investigate my own professional practices. For this, I undertook a research project which examined the potential of a Vygotsky-inspired assessment approach called dynamic assessment (DA) that blends assessment with teaching, to assess and promote academic writing development in business studies at The Open University, UK, as part of my doctoral study (EdD). This book draws on the data primarily from that research to demonstrate how DA-based academic writing assessment procedures in higher education may promote academic writing development, including conceptual development in a discipline. The research reported in this book was motivated by current a
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