Analysing argumentative writing

This article presents a framework which has proven helpful in analysing senior secondary academic writing from a linguistic and cognitive perspective, revealing a connection between those two aspects, consistent with a Vygotskian view of the development of thinking through language. It involves a close examination of linguistic and cognitive features of students' writing for features of intentional design, which are borrowed from Design Theory, namely Contingency, Complexity and Specification. Writers' means of inserting their views into their writing is also investigated. The framework is given at the end of the article and annotations for its application and several illustrations are given in the body of the article. Its use is intended to assist teachers in identifying, very specifically, which particular aspects of a student's writing need attention.     

写作智慧与智慧写作——现代应用文写作策略初探

现代应用文写作策略是写作主体自觉、积极的智力活动，是特定写作语境下为实现写作目的预先设计的写作方法、手段和措施，是写作行为的策划和写作活动的部署及构想，包括文本写作策略和文本包装传播策略，核心是写作应对思路和行为控制。现代应用文写作策略可以决定写作行为的成败，因此，认识现代应用文写作策略有益于应用写作实践，提高现代应用写作社会效益。同时还可以提升写作主体智慧的地位和价值，有利于主体创造才能的发挥和培养。     

大学英语写作母语负迁移现象的顺应分析

本文以顺应论为理论框架,从二语物理语境因素和二语社会认知语境因素两方面分别展开大学英语写作的语言结构母语负迁移和语篇思维模式母语负迁移现象的定性分析。研究发现,二语写作母语负迁移问题是由于语言使用者忽视了二语写作语境相关因素（如物理因素、文化思维因素等）的动态顺应而导致的。     

论从文章中获取语言规则、文章规则

读写活动需凭借语言规则、文章规则 ,这规则主要经语文实践从文章中获取。获取方式有无意识习得和有意识领悟。获取过程 ,先凭学龄前习得的口语规则在阅读中经同化建构书面语规则 ,再在阅读中凭已有的规则经顺应建构新规则 ;同时背诵以积累文章 ,待以后逐步经顺应建构没学过的规则。所获规则属实践经验 ,其中习得的属缄默知识 ,领悟的属明确知识     

英语写作"文化负迁移"现象探析与规避策略

写作是衡量语言学习者综合运用语言能力高低的重要体现。文章从词汇、句法、语篇三个层面分析了英语写作中的母语文化负迁移现象及其产生原因，并提出规避策略：强化文化意识，加强文化对比，学会英语思雏和注重写作实践。     

Playing with words: investigating the use of language play in the persuasive writing of 9–11-year-olds

There has been little research into how children use language play in writing. The unprompted language play of 36 children was investigated through their writing of a short advertisement. The sample comprised three attainment sub-groups from a larger repeat-design study of persuasive writing in the 9–11 age-range. The writing was analysed using qualitative methods derived from relevant linguistic literature. Extensive use of language play was evident, as well as stylistic differences between the sub-groups. The findings indicate how teaching and learning might be enhanced from more conscious use of children’s propensity for manipulating the forms, meanings and uses of language.     

A Brief Analysis on the Effect of EnglishLanguage on Chinese Thinking

This paper makes a brief analysis of the relationship and the effect between language and thinking,including the wide use of ungrammatical sentences in Chinese writing and the forms of thinking in English reading.The comparative study of the linguistic logics of Chinese and English contributes to deep understanding of the effect of English language on Chinese thinking.     

Connecting Literacy and Science to Increase Achievement for English Language Learners

Giving students a purpose and a passion for sharing their thinking through authentic learning experiences and giving them tools for writing through which they can risk new vocabulary, new language, and new thought is critical for the linguistic and cognitive development of students. Furthermore, students develop a deep understanding of content they have heard and read when given time to process information through writing and speaking. This article describes one teacher’s quest to identify and implement effective research-based instructional strategies that she could use to successfully support her kindergarten ELL students during science instruction.     

Engaging students in reflective writing: an action research project

ABSTRACT

Due to limited exposure to the reflective genre, students experience cognitive, psychological and linguistic issues that prevent them from producing proficient reflective pieces. This study investigated how these issues could be addressed through modelling, the 6 + 1 traits writing rubric and blended learning. The study reports on the experiences of 37 participants in the fourth year of secondary schooling at an all male school in Trinidad and Tobago. Change in a regional examination syllabus which introduced a focus on the reflective mode and reflective writing had implications for teaching and learning. Through one cycle of a practical action research project using an embedded quasi-experimental design, an intervention to address cognitive, psychological and linguistic issues was implemented. Quantitative data were collected using a pre- and post-test and a Writing Attitude Survey (WAS). Qualitative data were gathered through student journals and students’ formative writing assessment artefacts. The intervention succeeded in positively changing students’ dispositions towards reflective writing, developing students’ reflective writing and addressing text organization issues. This research is significant for teachers and students where intentional reflection and reflective writing are competencies that can enhance critical thinking and metacognition and potentially lead to personal, intellectual and professional development.     

Dreaming the Unstable Wings of Desire: Unseen,Educational Bruisings and The Elusive Self of Literature

When it comes to education, the dream cannot be controlled by the strictures of language or the conscious mind, and in its insistently disobedient character, is unwilling to submit to the demands of a deliberate and conscious curriculum. Indeed, we might say that what dreams represent is the absence of education itself, and a mobile energy antithetical to a fantasy of smoothly functioning teaching. In this article, we approach the question of dreaming’s place in education through two intertwined lenses: the conceptual and the literary. First, we intersperse throughout our paper excerpts from an untitled fictional narrative about a group of students who become progressively more beaten up, and whose teacher is unable to see their bruises, as they embark on the precarious task of expressing their dreaming, creative selves. We also turn to psychoanalytic theory (and, in particular, Thomas Ogden’s theory of dream thinking) to discuss the significance of the impenetrable nature of the dream, and ask how such qualities of unrepresentability might challenge our desires for answerable questions and legible answers. We end this piece with a recognition of the ways in which shared experiences of reading and writing may also support a place for dreams.     

英语写作教学中的跨文化交际能力培养

英语写作是英语学习中的一大难点。除了具备英语语言知识和各方面的综合能力外,还要克服文化差异造成的障碍。本文主要从文章结构、语法与遣词造句以及篇章组织的思维方式和话语策略三个方面,探讨英汉语写作中的语言文化差异,以在英语写作教学中培养学生的跨文化交际能力,使其真正掌握英语写作特点,提高英语写作能力。     

走向真实和开放的写作--关于《非构思写作学宣言》的意义

文章从社会历史角度对马正平的《非构思写作学宣言》作了进一步探讨，提出构思性写作与非构思写作的差异，不仅体现在写作技术和思维运作方式方面，更体现在写作目的方面，二者的此消彼长反映了社会环境的深刻变异，以及对写作的不同需求。     

Effects of reading and writing on cerebral laterality in good readers and children with dyslexia.

The present study evaluated the idea that the hemisphere-specific cognitive demands of reading and writing may induce task-specific maladaptive patterns of language lateralization in children with dyslexia. Situation-specific lateralization was examined in a repeated measures design under three dichotic listening conditions: baseline, concurrent reading, and concurrent writing. Twelve males with phonological dyslexia, 8 to 12 years old, were compared to 12 age-matched and 12 younger reading-matched good readers. Lateralization patterns were examined for condition-specific relationships to pseudoword decoding, word recognition, reading comprehension, spelling, and arithmetic. The results show that dyslexia is not related to incomplete lateralization or to a failure to inhibit verbal processing in the right hemisphere during reading and writing. Reading increased the lateralization of the children with dyslexia, which had a negative relation to arithmetic; writing caused a decrease in lateralization, which was linked specifically to deficits in phonological decoding and visual word recognition. The results suggest that children with dyslexia suffer from a selective linguistic vulnerability to left-hemisphere interference from the idiosyncratic attentional and processing demands of particular school tasks. Dyslexia is a much more dynamic and environmentally sensitive disorder than previously thought.     

临济宗禅学隐喻系统下的《沧浪诗话》“第一义”

《沧浪诗话》中严羽依循两宋之际临济宗大慧禅的言语思维,比照禅宗本体"第一义"设定诗歌本体"第一义",序列诗歌等级。他有意识地借鉴禅宗"第一义"的非言说特征来描述诗歌"第一义"的特征,并在临济大慧禅不立文字且不离文字的语言立场下,主张将非关书、非关理与多读书、多穷理统一起来。     

对外汉语中语篇衔接与连贯问题的探讨

对于大多数留学生来说,"听、说、读、写、译"五项言语技能中,最困难的、掌握最差的是"写"。要想写得好,除了通过各种手段丰富学生的汉语语感,培养学生的语境意识外,注重从语篇的角度培养留学生的汉语思维习惯和能力,才能满足学生进行比较自然得体的汉语书面交际的需要。     

Writing time: A rhythmic analysis of contemporary academic writing

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Where and when do academics write and what are the feelings associated with it? Is the pressure to write a fulfilling process of joyful exploration, or is it stressful and wracked with self-doubt? Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, this article explores the rhythmic dispositions and orientations of contemporary academic writing, exposing the perils of neoliberal quantification and fragmentation in relation to the practice and experience of writing. The critical examination of Helen Sword’s guide to successful academic writing and a critique of the material and abstract spaces destined to contemporary academic writing inform the analysis, revealing problematic contractions and ruptures in the spatio-temporal continuum that organically connects reading, thinking and writing. The article makes, therefore, a case for the use of Rhythmanalysis as a diagnostic method capable of signalling – by detecting arrhythmias – the increasing disjunction between the institutional demands of accelerated production and the slower, irrational rhythms of craftsmanship. By politicizing the pathologies of contemporary academic writing, Rhythmanalysis discloses its potential as a progressive political resource: both as a radical call for appropriation and as a counter-discourse, it allows to restore a more harmonious relationship between thinking, reading and writing against dominant forms of productivist fragmentation, while shedding light on the non-places and dead times of our everyday writing habits.     

中国学生英语议论文写作中的思维模式

Kaplan认为亚洲学生不能进行抽象思维的语言表达,中国学生的议论文写作是螺旋迂回归纳式,而西方人的议论文写作是直线演绎的方式。论文采用回溯访谈方法,记录五个中国学生的写作过程。英语写作的思维方式受英语程度的影响,而不是简单地归结为东、西方议论文写作思维模式的不同。