Applying semantic gravity wave profiles to develop undergraduate students’ academic literacy

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-20 DOI:10.1075/aral.19012.bro

M. Brooke

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Abstract

Abstract This study draws on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), particularly semantic gravity waving, as a strategy for academic literacies practitioners to conceptualise how knowledge in their field might be organised and presented. Students can be guided to notice meanings related to context-dependency at the discourse and lexico-grammatical levels through the presentation of semantic gravity waving profiles. For this study, semantic gravity waving profiles have been found useful for explaining the rationale of a genre pedagogy approach, the structure of an Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion (IMRD) genre, and teaching both lexical coherence for a theoretical framework section, and accurate use of determiners with non-count abstract nouns such as “research”. Therefore, semantic gravity profiling seems to provide explanatory power as a pedagogical tool in the classroom. Findings from a mixed method survey with sixty students as well as extracts from student texts before and after semantic gravity waving profile pedagogical interventions are provided.

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应用语义重力波剖面培养大学生学术素养

本研究利用合法性代码理论(LCT)，特别是语义重力波动，作为学术素养从业者概念化其领域知识如何组织和呈现的策略。通过语义重力波形图的呈现，可以引导学生在语篇和词汇语法层面注意到与语境依赖相关的意义。在这项研究中，语义重力波谱被发现有助于解释类型教学法的基本原理，介绍-方法-结果-讨论(IMRD)类型的结构，以及教授理论框架部分的词汇连贯性，以及对不可数抽象名词(如“research”)的限定词的准确使用。因此，语义重力分析似乎在课堂上提供了解释力作为一种教学工具。本文提供了一项对60名学生进行混合方法调查的结果，以及语义重力波动剖面教学干预前后学生文本的摘录。

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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the preeminent journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). ARAL is a peer reviewed journal that promotes scholarly discussion and contemporary understandings of language-related matters with a view to impacting on real-world problems and debates. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research on language/s in educational, professional, institutional and community settings. ARAL welcomes national and international submissions presenting research related to any of the major sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics as well as transdisciplinary studies. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: · Analysis of discourse and interaction · Assessment and evaluation · Bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education · Corpus linguistics · Cognitive linguistics · Language, culture and identity · Language maintenance and revitalization · Language planning and policy · Language teaching and learning, including specific languages and TESOL · Pragmatics · Research design and methodology · Second language acquisition · Sociolinguistics · Language and technology · Translating and interpreting.