Attitudes of second language students towards self-editing their own written texts
Reading & Writing
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Attitudes of second language students towards self-editing their own written texts | |
| Creator | Kasule, Daniel Lunga, Violet B. | |
| Description | Recognizing students’ deliberate e!orts to minimize errors in their written texts is valuable in seeing them as responsible active agents in text creation. This paper reports on a brief survey of the attitudes towards self-editing of seventy university students using a questionnaire and class discussion. The context of the study is characterized by its emphasis on evaluating the finished written product. Findings show that students appreciate the role of self-editing in minimizing errors in their texts and that it helps in eventually producing well-written texts. Conceptualizing writing as discourse and therefore as social practice leads to an understanding of writers as socially-situated actors; repositions the student writer as an active agent in text creation; and is central to student-centred pedagogy. We recommend the recognition of self-editing as a vital element in the writing process and that additional error detection mechanisms namely peers, the lecturer, and the computer, increase student autonomy. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 2010-05-22 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/rw.v1i1.5 | |
| Source | Reading & Writing; Vol 1, No 1 (2010) 2308-1422 2079-8245 | |
| Language | eng | |
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