The story of a narrative: Teaching and assessing English writing in a township school

Reading & Writing

 
 
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Title The story of a narrative: Teaching and assessing English writing in a township school
 
Creator Akinyeye, Caroline Plüddemann, Peter
 
Subject Education; Language curriculum cycle; narrative; English; genre; assessment; writing process; text-based approach
Description The new language curriculum in South Africa recommends that extended writing be taught through a combination of text-based (or genre) and process approaches. This article reports on a study of the teaching and assessment of narrative writing in English as a first additional language (FAL) at a time of curriculum change. The setting is a Cape Flats township school. In focusing on a story written by a Grade 9 learner and assessed by her teacher, the study sought evidence of the use of text-based and process approaches. The theoretical frame is informed by genre theory, which draws on Systemic Functional Linguistics and social constructivist approaches to language learning. A qualitative research paradigm was used. Data obtained for this case study included the learner’s writing, interviews with the teacher, and classroom observation. The study finds very little evidence of a scaffolded approach to the teaching and assessment of writing, and explores the constraints on the realisation of the curriculum cycle in English FAL. These relate to the teacher’s understanding of writing as well as to material conditions in township schools.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
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Date 2016-05-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/rw.v7i1.88
 
Source Reading & Writing; Vol 7, No 1 (2016); 8 pages 2308-1422 2079-8245
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Western Cape current —
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Caroline Akinyeye, Peter Plüddemann https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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