Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.001

Bongi Bangeni

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This article adopts a critical approach to literacy and genre analysis to explore the place for multilingualism at a South African historically white university's law faculty. Drawing on data from think-aloud protocols and semi-structured interviews, it seeks to gain insight into the following: the (meta)cognitive reading strategies used by first-year English additional language (EAL) students in reading the legal judgment; the impact of language on strategy use, and lastly, students' perceptions of the value of their home languages for mediating reading challenges as surfaced in the think-aloud protocols. Drawing on Tardy et al.’s (2020) theoretical framework for researching genre knowledge, the findings demonstrate how reading strategies are utilised differently for different purposes. Participants' uses of the strategies of ‘setting a context’ and ‘rereading’ illustrate how language intersects with home and school-based discourses and the impact thereof on reading.

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阅读（法律）：批判性评估语言对学科新手认知阅读策略的影响

本文采用批判性的识字和体裁分析方法，探讨南非一所历史悠久的白人大学法律系的多语种问题。文章利用思考--朗读协议和半结构式访谈中的数据，试图深入了解以下内容：一年级英语附加语（EAL）学生在阅读法律判决书时使用的（元）认知阅读策略；语言对策略使用的影响，以及最后，学生对其母语在调解阅读挑战方面的价值的看法，正如思考--朗读协议中所浮现的那样。根据 Tardy 等人（2020 年）的体裁知识研究理论框架，研究结果表明了阅读策略在不同目的下的不同使用方式。参与者对 "设置情境 "和 "重读 "策略的使用，说明了语言如何与家庭和学校的话语交织在一起，并对阅读产生影响。

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期刊介绍： This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.