33.3602, Books: Shaping Writing Grades: McCallum, Durrant

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:27:33
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Shaping Writing Grades: McCallum, Durrant

 


Title: Shaping Writing Grades 
Subtitle: Collocation and Writing Context Effects 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/shaping-writing-grades-collocation-and-writing-context-effects?format=PB 


Author: Lee McCallum
Author: Philip Durrant

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009074445 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 20.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009074445 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 15.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009074445 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 17.51


Abstract:

This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and
learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme.
Comprising three studies, the Element is anchored in understanding
phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and
diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association
measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of
information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from
this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish
relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and measures of
task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation,
and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically
significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why
they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by
considering the implications of this modelling for assessment.
 



1. Introduction; 2. FYC programmes and the writing context; 3. Review of
collocation-writing quality studies; 4. Methodology; 5. Study one: the cluster
analysis; 6. Study two: the statistical modelling; 7. Study three: qualitative
understandings of writing quality; 8. Conclusions; References.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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