Exploring EFL Learners' Academic Literacy Development: An Ecological Perspective

IF 3 1区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Tesol Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI:10.1002/tesq.3325

Dongying Li, Lian Zhang

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Abstract

Academic literacy development is shaped by multiple individual and contextual factors that mutually interact with one another. Previous studies have identified some of the factors, but few explored their complex and dynamic interactions in students' writing practices. The study adopts a case study method to examine EFL learners' academic literacy development from an ecological perspective. Findings reveal that (1) affordances and constraints are not predetermined categories but are interactive and emergent; (2) personal traits largely shape the way learners perceive, appropriate, and interact with contextual affordances; (3) complex person‐environment interactions are generally situated within the dialectical relationship between agency and structure in connected literate activities; (4) the way students characterize and shape their relations with contextual affordances/constraints bears developmental effects. The study unveils complex person‐environment interactions in EFL learners' academic literacy development while shedding light on relevant pedagogical practices.

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探索 EFL 学习者的学术读写能力发展：生态学视角

学术素养的发展受多种个人因素和环境因素的影响，而这些因素又是相互影响的。以往的研究发现了其中一些因素，但很少有研究探讨这些因素在学生写作实践中复杂而动态的相互作用。本研究采用案例研究法，从生态学的角度考察 EFL 学习者的学术素养发展。研究结果表明：(1) 能力和限制不是预先确定的类别，而是互动的、新出现的；(2) 个人特质在很大程度上决定了学习者感知、适应和与情境能力互动的方式；(3) 复杂的人与环境的互动一般是在有联系的读写活动中机构与结构之间的辩证关系中进行的；(4) 学生描述和塑造他们与情境能力/限制的关系的方式会对发展产生影响。本研究揭示了 EFL 学习者学术读写能力发展中复杂的人-环境互动关系，同时揭示了相关的教学实践。

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Tesol Quarterly Multiple-

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6.40

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6.20%

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