Pre-University Students' Voice Construction in Argumentative Essays

Autor/inn/en	Cheung, Yin Ling; Low, Tze Hui
Titel	Pre-University Students' Voice Construction in Argumentative Essays
Quelle	In: RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 50 (2019) 2, S.269-284 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-6882
DOI	10.1177/0033688217716508
Schlagwörter	Persuasive Discourse; Essays; Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Writing Instruction; Teaching Methods; Academic Language; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Postsecondary Education; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Schülerverhalten; Schreibunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Singapur
Abstract	This article examines how writer's voice is constructed in argumentative essays written at the pre-university level. The study focusses on the student writers' control over evaluative resources that influence the realization of voice in the high-scoring and low-scoring scripts. Using the APPRAISAL system in Systemic Functional Linguistics, the study shows how voice is construed through APPRAISAL theory in the high-scoring and low-scoring general paper essays, respectively. The differences between the two categories of essays can be seen in the application of ENGAGEMENT, ATTITUDE, and GRADUATION resources. Findings indicated that the high scoring essays used richer ENGAGEMENT and ATTITUDE resources to accomplish more mature and sophisticated argumentative voices. These opportunities to make full use of the APPRAISAL resources were missed by the low-scoring students in their argumentative writing. The findings are pedagogically useful for writing teachers who find the notion of voice too abstract to teach but accept its significance in producing a good essay. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01