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https://doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.calj.2013.1.a01Published:
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Vol 15, No 1 (2013) January-JuneSection:
Research ArticlesFrom contrastive rhetoric towards perceptions of identity: written academic English in Central Mexico
De la retórica del contraste a las percepciones de identidad: escritura académica en inglés en México central.
Keywords:
lectoescritura, percepción de identidad discursiva, redacción académica (es).Keywords:
academic writing, EFL literacy, perception of discoursal identity (en).Abstract (en)
This research looks at two students at the end of a four year period in academic writing as a second language using open interviews and textual analysis of academic papers. While the initial focus of the research was on the development of rhetorical features in academic texts, issues more oriented to identity construction emerged through the data analysis, implying that long term academic writing in a second language may be more akin to literacy development. The results seem to show that while the participants express a strong identity with English as writers, the actual writing is more in tune with conventions of Spanish. This suggests an apparent conflict of English as a tool for writing and Spanish as the language of the individual.
Abstract (es)
Esta investigación estudia la redacción académica en una lengua extranjera de dos alumnos en un período de cuatro años, utilizando entrevistas abiertas y análisis de ensayos académicos. Aunque el enfoque inicial de la investigación era del desarrollo de herramientas retóricas en textos académicos, algunos problemas relacionados con la construcción identitaria emergieron a través del análisis de los datos, lo cual podría indicar que el desarrollo a largo plazo de redacción académica en una segunda lengua puede estar más vinculado con lecto-escritura. Los resultados parecen mostrar que mientras los participantes expresan una fuerte identificación con el inglés, su escritura está más en sintonía con las convenciones de español. Esto sugiere un aparente conflicto con el inglés como herramienta de redacción y el español como lengua de expresión del individuo.
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