[Edling] Book - Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives

Fri Sep 25 14:30:32 UTC 2020

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for any cross postings!

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:

Special offer / Get 20% off the printed book or eBook!

Use the following token on Springer.com

mE7nGdz4Kyd9TNn / Valid Sep 24, 2020 – Oct 22, 2020

Here you can find the flyer with details:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtGLvj4CnvF_06eMhADFaAaoxkRhldUw/view?usp=sharing

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Prithvi.

On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 09:00, Prithvi Shrestha <pnshrestha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies for any cross postings!
>
> I thought colleagues in this mailing list may find this book of interest.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Prithvi.
>
>
>
> Title: *Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing: Vygotskian and
> Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives*
>
> *Author*: Prithvi N. Shrestha, School of Languages and Applied
> Linguistics, The Open University, UK
>
> ISBN: 978-3-030-55844-4 (print), 978-3-030-55845-1 (online)
>
> Hardback price: €103.99
>
> eBook price: €85.59
>
> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55845-1
>
> Publisher link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030558444
>
> Publisher: Springer
>
>
>
> *About the book*
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> *Reviewer comments*
>
> “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)
>
> “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)
>
> “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)
>
>
> ---------------
> *Dr Prithvi N. Shrestha, SFHEA*
> Senior Lecturer | School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
> The Open University, UK.
> Work details: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/pns52
> Current Projects:  IELTS research (Bangladesh & Nepal); ETS/ TOEFL iBT and
> EMI (Nepal & Sweden)
> Research: http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html
> Twitter: @pnshrestha  <https://twitter.com/pnshrestha>
> ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prithvi_Shrestha> |
> Academia.edu <https://open.academia.edu/PrithviShrestha>
> ORCiD <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4971-8051>
> ELTons Award 2019 Finalist - Excellence in Course Innovation
> <https://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/events/eltons-innovation-awards/eltons-innovation-awards-2019/excellence-course-innovation-2019-finalists>
>  (British Council)
>
> *Recent publications:*
>
> Shrestha, Prithvi (forthcoming). *Dynamic assessment of students’
> academic writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic
> Perspectives*. Springer.
>
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