<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>Dear Colleagues,</p><p>Apologies for any cross postings!</p><p>Further to my email below about the book, Springer has informed me that there is a 20% discount on the book purchase for a limited time. Here is the code:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(66,156,215)">Special offer / Get 20% off the printed book or eBook!</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(66,156,215)">Use the following token on Springer.com</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(66,156,215)">mE7nGdz4Kyd9TNn / Valid Sep 24, 2020 – Oct 22, 2020</p><p>Here you can find the flyer with details:</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtGLvj4CnvF_06eMhADFaAaoxkRhldUw/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtGLvj4CnvF_06eMhADFaAaoxkRhldUw/view?usp=sharing</a></p><p>Thank you.</p><p>Best wishes,</p><p>Prithvi.</p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 09:00, Prithvi Shrestha <<a href="mailto:pnshrestha@gmail.com">pnshrestha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Apologies for any cross postings!<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I thought colleagues in this mailing list may find this book of interest.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Prithvi.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Title: <i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives<span></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Author</b>: Prithvi N. Shrestha, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University, UK<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ISBN: <span style="background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">978-3-030-55844-4</span> (print), 978-3-030-55845-1 (online)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hardback price: €103.99<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">eBook price: €85.59<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55845-1" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,111,180);text-decoration:none">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55845-1</span></a><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Publisher link: <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030558444" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,111,180);text-decoration:none">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030558444</span></a><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Publisher: Springer <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>About the book<span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as Dynamic Assessment (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. DA blends instruction with assessment by targeting and further developing students’ Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). <br><br>The book presents the application of DA to assessing academic writing by developing a set of DA procedures for academic writing teachers. It further demonstrates the application of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), combined with DA, to track undergraduate business management students’ academic writing and conceptual development in distance education. <br><br>This work extends previous DA studies in three key ways: i) it explicitly focuses on the construction of a macrogenre (whole text) as opposed to investigations of decontextualized language fragments, ii) it offers the first in-depth application of the powerful SFL tool to analyse students’ academic writing to track their academic writing trajectory in DA research, and iii) it identifies a range of mediational strategies and consequently expands Poehner’s (2005) framework of mediation typologies. <br><br>Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing will be of great value to academic writing researchers and teachers, language assessment researchers and postgraduate students interested in academic writing, alternative assessment and formative feedback in higher education.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Reviewer comments<span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(51,51,51)">“This book offers a solution to one of the most intractable problems of higher education: how to feedback meaningfully on students’ academic development. Shrestha applies an original blend of theory and practice in a demonstration of how feedback dialogue around academic writing can inform disciplinary meaning-making. That the dialogue was carried out in an entirely digital environment makes the book particularly timely at this moment when higher education looks set for a digital transformation.” (Jim Donohue, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(51,51,51)">“The significant and original contribution of this volume arises particularly from the combination of dynamic assessment (DA) and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in an academic writing context in UK higher education. This will resonate with researchers and practitioners interested in the development of university student writing skills in EAP programmes, in writing centres, in learning centres or in English in the disciplines programmes. The approach is clearly explained and includes three analysis chapters (focusing on business case study analysis genres; tutor-student DA mediation, and transfer potential) that could separately or together usefully inform practice or research.” (Sheena Gardner, Coventry University, UK) <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(51,51,51)">“In this important book, Shrestha succeeds in advancing innovations in the teaching and assessing of English academic writing while simultaneously contributing to the growing body of Dynamic Assessment research concerned with second language development. Adopting an approach to writing instruction informed by Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics, Shrestha is able to approach learner development relative to their understanding and production of whole texts, or 'macrogenres', opening a new direction of research for Dynamic Assessment. That the work is situated in a context of distance education makes it all the more interesting and timely.” (Matthew E. Poehner, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)<span></span></span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">---------------<div><b>Dr Prithvi N. Shrestha, SFHEA</b><br>Senior Lecturer | School of Languages and Applied Linguistics<br></div><div>The Open University, UK.<br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Work details: <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/people/pns52" target="_blank">http://www.open.ac.uk/people/pns52</a> <br>Current Projects: IELTS research (Bangladesh & Nepal); ETS/ TOEFL iBT and EMI (Nepal & Sweden)<br>Research: <a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html" target="_blank">http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html</a> <br></div><div dir="ltr">Twitter: @pnshrestha <<a href="https://twitter.com/pnshrestha" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/pnshrestha</a>></div><div><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prithvi_Shrestha" target="_blank">ResearchGate</a> | <a href="https://open.academia.edu/PrithviShrestha" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4971-8051" target="_blank">ORCiD</a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/events/eltons-innovation-awards/eltons-innovation-awards-2019/excellence-course-innovation-2019-finalists" title="https://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/events/eltons-innovation-awards/eltons-innovation-awards-2019/excellence-course-innovation-2019-finalists" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ELTons Award 2019 Finalist - Excellence in Course Innovation</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px"><span style="color:rgb(32,56,100);font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">(British Council)</font></span></span><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Recent publications:</b><br></div><div><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Shrestha, Prithvi (forthcoming). </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dynamic assessment of students’ academic writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives</span></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. Springer.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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