{"title":"Ungrading: Revolution or evolution","authors":"Deborah Crusan","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ungrading, an assessment approach transcending traditional grading methods, has surged in recognition partly due to recognition of disparities in educational systems during COVID. These injustices challenged people of color and English learners. While advocates highlight ungrading’s potential to enhance equity and student engagement, critics underline concerns about power dynamics, increased time commitments, and communication challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101149"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers","authors":"Mikenna Leigh Modesto","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In response to Crusan’s focus paper on the history, nuances, and implications of alternative assessment for second language writing and writers, I present an overview of multilingual student perceptions of contract grading across a University Writing Program. Both affordances and potential challenges with this method of assessment are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101147"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feedback over grades: Enhancing learning through ungrading","authors":"Icy Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101148"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Yajing Wu, Jingyuan Zhang, Hongyan Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101134","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101134"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142128408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing","authors":"Colleen Brice , Carolina Pelaez-Morales","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101136"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142230345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Majed Abdullah Alharbi, Omar Ahmed Alkhonini","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101135"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142083067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Lu Huang , Liping Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101133"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141932770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usage-based approaches to assessing syntactic sophistication in second language writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency","authors":"Hyunwoo Kim , Eunseok Ro","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on usage-based approaches to language learning, this study investigated how second language (L2) writers use verbs and argument structure constructions across different genres, while also exploring how this genre effect interacts with L2 writing proficiency. We analyzed five previously established usage-based indices using a learner corpus comprising argumentative and narrative essays elicited from 3196 college-level learners. Through a series of mixed-effects regression analyses, we identified a consistent genre effect, with argumentative essays featuring a more sophisticated use of verbs and constructions alongside a greater diversity in construction types. Additionally, a significant interaction emerged between genre and proficiency regarding construction frequency and the frequency of verb–construction combinations. These results indicate that while the previously observed genre effect extends to the L2 use of verbs and constructions, its manifestation varies depending on L2 proficiency. Overall, our study supports the usage-based learning of verbs and constructions in the context of L2 writing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101131"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141932771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement","authors":"Svetlana Koltovskaia , Payam Rahmati , Hooman Saeli","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Amidst the growing hype surrounding ChatGPT and its use for writing purposes, numerous studies have emerged, but there has been limited emphasis on investigating how individual students utilize it for text revision. Against this backdrop, the present study examined how six Iranian graduate ESL students from STEM fields engaged with ChatGPT when revising their academic research proposals. The study employed a tripartite multidimensional framework encompassing behavioral, cognitive, and affective aspects of engagement. Behavioral engagement was analyzed by studying students’ texts and their screencasts using ChatGPT for text revision. Cognitive and affective engagement were evaluated through students’ comments during stimulated recall of the screencasts, along with semi-structured interviews and follow-up surveys. The findings show that participants used ChatGPT behaviorally for lower-order concerns, relying on a training prompt. While they generally noticed and comprehended the feedback, they expressed doubts regarding its accuracy whenever necessary, implying a reasonably high level of cognitive engagement. Affective engagement revealed high satisfaction, with participants' favoring ChatGPT for paraphrasing to enhance professionalism in writing. The research offers insights for educators on how to effectively integrate ChatGPT into L2 writing classrooms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101130"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Western-trained Vietnamese teachers’ EFL writing instruction: A collaborative autoethnography of tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective","authors":"Khoa Dang Truong , Anh Thi Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In response to the need for more attention to teachers of writing (Lee, 2024), this collaborative autoethnography (CAE) aims to explore the lived experiences of Western-trained teachers teaching EFL writing in the tertiary-level educational context of Vietnam. Drawing upon the concepts of systemic tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective, we report on tensions we encountered between our Western-based TESOL education and our local activity of teaching EFL writing as well as on how we emotionally and agentively responded to these tensions to allow for practices compatible with the local context. Our CAE unveiled a host of intricate tensions between multiple components of our activity systems. These tensions triggered our emotional responses, which in turn spurred us to exercise our pedagogical and relational agency to reconstruct our pedagogical cognition and implement adaptive pedagogies. Notably, the dynamic interplay between our tensions, emotion, agency constituted critical experiences which fostered the emergence of participatory pedagogical content knowledge of writing, and in turn, of situated possibilities for learning and teaching EFL writing. The study provides implications for Western-based TESOL teacher education and relevant stakeholders regarding how to better support teachers like us in our transition from learning in the West to teaching in the East.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101132"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1060374324000390/pdfft?md5=c00bba1199f3ebff7b9798d0af7e5f20&pid=1-s2.0-S1060374324000390-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}