Children's Writing Processes When Using Computers: Insights Based on Combining Analyses of Product and Process

Gnach, Aleksandra; Wiesner, Esther; Bertschi-Kaufmann, Andrea; Perrin, Daniel

doi:10.2304/rcie.2007.2.1.13

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“…The development of keystroke logging programs has enabled researchers to track the process of text production without changing the environment for the TPs concerned. In a research project called myMoment and its follow-up projects (e.g., Gnach, Wiesner, Bertschi-Kaufmann, & Perrin, 2007), hundreds of children in primary school grades one to five were provided with a web-based interactive environment for reading and writing stories and for making comments in class and at home. Text production processes were recorded automatically with Progression Analysis.…”

Section: Mymoment: Tracking Writing Behavior To Improve Teacher Educamentioning

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On, for, and with practitioners

Perrin

2018

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This article explains how research “on” practitioners can be turned into research “for and with” practitioners (Cameron, Frazer, Rampton, & Richardson, 1992, p. 22) by including these practitioners in the research teams. Methodologically, it draws on two decades of multimethod research and knowledge transformation at the interface of applied linguistics and transdisciplinary action research on professional communication (Perrin, 2013). Empirically, it is based on large corpora of data collected in multilingual and multicultural workplaces. First, the article outlines transdisciplinary action research as a theoretical framework that enables researchers and practitioners to collaboratively develop sustainable solutions to real-world problems in which language use in general and text production in particular play a substantial role (Section 1). Then, Progression Analysis is explained as a multimethod approach to investigate text production practices in natural environments such as workplaces (Section 2). Examples from four domains (education, finance, translation, and journalism) illustrate what value transdisciplinary collaboration between academic researchers and practitioners can add to knowledge generation in applied linguistics (Section 3). For the case of journalism in increasingly global contexts, in-depth analyses offer step-by-step understanding of the trajectory from a real-world problem to a sustainable solution (Section 4). The article concludes by suggesting empirically-based measures for research that contribute to the development of both theory and practice in applied linguistics (Section 5).

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Section: Mymoment: Tracking Writing Behavior To Improve Teacher Educamentioning

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2018

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“…The approach was developed to investigate newswriting (e.g., Perrin 2003;Sleurs, Jacobs, and Van Waes 2003;Van Hout and Jacobs 2008) and later transferred to other application fields of writing research, such as children's writing processes (e.g., Gnach et al 2007) and translation (e.g., Ehrensberger-Dow and Perrin 2009). With Progression Analysis, data are obtained and related on three levels.…”

Section: The Mental Focus: Identifying Writing Strategies With Progrementioning

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5 Methodology: From speaking about writing to tracking text production

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Handbook of Writing and Text Production

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Doing writing research from an applied linguistics perspective means investigating individual, collaborative, and organizational writing and text production as language-based activities in complex and dynamic real-life contexts. In doing so, micro and macro levels, product and process perspectives, as well as theoretical and practical questions are combined in transdisciplinary approaches. Appropriate methods have to be deliberately chosen and transparently explained across disciplinary boundaries. Methodological questions need to be clarified, such as: which method fits which problem -and how should and can various methods complement each other?In this chapter, we start from two methodologically complementary ways of doing research into real-life writing processes (Part 1). These approaches illustrate why collecting data represents a key problem in the history of writing research (2). We then outline a typology of state-of-the-art methods in writing research (3) and explain challenges of combining perspectives and methods in research projects (4). This allows us to evaluate what sophisticated methodology in writing research can contribute to applied linguistics (5) and to conclude by sketching a related research roadmap (6). In the reference section, we focus on work combining approaches from writing research and applied linguistics in methodologically innovative ways (7).

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“…Cooper & Matsuhashi 1983), and as the collaborative practice of social meaning making (e.g. Gunnarsson 1997, Lillis 2013, Prior 2006. It investigates writing through laboratory experiments and field research.…”

Section: Newswriting As Writing At Workmentioning

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“…This approach is still practiced in the field of literary writing, where archival research reveals the genesis of masterpieces (e.g. Bazerman 2008, Grésillon 1997). -A second paradigm shift took research from the laboratory to "real life" (Van der Geest 1996).…”

Section: Newswriting As Writing At Workmentioning

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Investigating language and the media

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2013

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Drawing on a case study of newswriting, this article presents media linguistics as a subdiscipline of applied linguistics (AL), dealing with a distinctive field of language use. Language in the media is characterized by specific environments, functions, and structures. Medialinguistic research, however, tends to overcome disciplinary boundaries. In multidisciplinary collaboration, it accesses a wide range of knowledge generation and transformation methods. In interdisciplinary collaboration, it contributes precise analyses of situated linguistic activity to the development of empirically-grounded communication studies. In transdisciplinary collaboration, it tests these theories against reality and solves practical problems. The article first outlines such a practical problem (Section 1). After explaining key concepts of media lingustics (2), it focuses on the linguistics of newswriting (3) and four related research methods (4). Finally, it discusses how the value media linguistics can add to both theory and practice of language use and the media (5).

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Children's Writing Processes When Using Computers: Insights Based on Combining Analyses of Product and Process

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

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Investigating language and the media

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