35.3209, Diss: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Alharthi (2023)

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Date: 23-Oct-2024
From: Ahmad Alharthi [aaalharthi at ksu.edu.sa]
Subject: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition; Breaking Away from Binaries: Teaching Writing with Critical Realist Sensibilities: Alharthi (2023)


Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2023

Author: Ahmad A. Alharthi

Dissertation Title: Breaking Away from Binaries: Teaching Writing with
Critical Realist Sensibilities

Dissertation URL:
https://english.washington.edu/research/graduate/breaking-away-binaries-teaching-writing-critical-realist-sensibilities

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Dissertation Director(s):

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation is an action research study carried out in two
multilingual sections of a first-year
composition course that were taught over the course of two academic
quarters. The two sections
represent two research cycles. In the first research cycle, I discuss
the construction of the course
syllabus and examine the relation between three approaches to teaching
writing that were
integrated into the course: translingualism and English as a lingua
franca (as part of critical or
progressive pedagogy) and intercultural rhetoric (as part of pragmatic
pedagogy). In the second
research cycle, I look at the relation between these two pedagogies
and explore the possibility of
a middle ground approach that views the two pedagogies dialectically
rather than dualistically.
Ultimately, I argue that an approach called critical pragmatism can
serve this role, and I lay out
possible components of said approach in contribution of this
reconciliatory effort. For the purpose
of data collection, I utilized various research methods, including
interviews with students,
feedback surveys, fieldnotes, and student work. And in performing a
detailed analysis of the
complete data set, I employed two analytic strategies: one is called
template analysis while the
other is called dilemma analysis. Finally, as an overarching
theoretical framework, the study
adopts a philosophy called critical realism.

Keywords: Composition studies, critical pragmatism, critical realism,
action research,
template analysis, dilemma analysis



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