LEADER 05070nam 22006255 450 001 9910863174103321 005 20250610110036.0 010 $a9783030558451 010 $a3030558452 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-55845-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011435732 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6348660 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-55845-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6348621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29093125 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011435732 100 $a20200911d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDynamic Assessment of Students? Academic Writing $eVygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives /$fby Prithvi N. Shrestha 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XXVI, 246 p. 56 illus., 19 illus. in color.) 311 08$a9783030558444 311 08$a3030558444 327 $aIntroduction to Dynamic Assessment -- Sociocultural Theory and Academic Writing -- Systemic Functional Linguistics, Dynamic Assessment and Academic Writing -- Higher Education, Academic Writing Assessment and Formative Feedback -- Application of Dynamic Assessment to Distance Education -- Tutor Mediation, Learner Reciprocity and Academic Writing Development -- Tracking Learners' Academic Writing and Conceptual Development through Systemic Functional Linguistics -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as Dynamic Assessment (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. DA blends instruction with assessment by targeting and further developing students? Zone of Proximal Development. Thus, the book applies DA to assess academic writing by developing a set of DA procedures for academic writing teachers. It further demonstrates the application of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), combined with DA, to track undergraduate business management students? academic writing and conceptual development in distance education. This work extends previous DA studies in three key ways: i) it explicitly focuses on the construction of a macrogenre (whole text) as opposed to investigations of decontextualized language fragments, ii) it offers the first in-depth application of the powerful SFL tool to analyse students? academic writing to track their academic writing trajectory in DA research, and iii) it identifies a range of mediational strategies and consequently expands Poehner?s (2005) framework of mediation typologies. The book will be of great value to academic writing researchers and teachers, language assessment researchers and postgraduate students interested in academic writing, alternative assessment and formative feedback in higher education. The significant and original contribution of this volume arises particularly from the combination of dynamic assessment (DA) and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in an academic writing context in UK higher education. This will resonate with researchers and practitioners interested in the development of university student writing skills in EAP programmes, in writing centres, in learning centres or in English in the disciplines programmes. The approach is clearly explained and includes three analysis chapters (focusing on business case study analysis genres; tutor-student DA mediation, and transfer potential) that could separately or together usefully inform practice or research. Sheena Gardner, Coventry University. In this book, Shrestha applies an original blend of theory and practice in a demonstration of how feedback dialogue around academic writing can inform disciplinary meaning-making. That the dialogue was carried out in an entirely digital environment makes the book particularly timely at this moment when higher education looks set for a digital transformation. Dr Jim Donohue, SFHEA, Manchester Metropolitan University. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching 606 $aLearning, Psychology of 606 $aApplied linguistics 606 $aEducational tests and measurements 606 $aLanguage Education 606 $aInstructional Psychology 606 $aApplied Linguistics 606 $aAssessment and Testing 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aLearning, Psychology of. 615 0$aApplied linguistics. 615 0$aEducational tests and measurements. 615 14$aLanguage Education. 615 24$aInstructional Psychology. 615 24$aApplied Linguistics. 615 24$aAssessment and Testing. 676 $a808.066378 700 $aShrestha$b Prithvi Narayan$0976170 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863174103321 996 $aDynamic assessment of students' academic writing$92223314 997 $aUNINA