Short Presentation An Online Practice for L2 Source-based Writing more

Sat, Dec 18, 17:00-17:25 Asia/Tokyo

Incorporating sources into their writing is challenging for Japanese university students due to their limited English writing proficiency and a lack of academic writing training even in Japanese. Teachers need to help the students locate, connect, and integrate information source texts into their writing step-by-step (Zhang, 2013). This presentation reports on an online classroom practice that was aimed to develop rhetoric, linguistic, and critical thinking skills to facilitate English source-based writing. Specifically, the presenter will introduce a verbal reasoning task that her students worked on collaboratively online. She will also report on pedagogical implications for L2 source-based writing instruction, followed by students’ reflections on their online activity.