Voice, appropriation and discourse representation in a student writing task

Scollon, R., Tsang, W. K., Li, D., Yung, V. and Jones, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-727X (1997) Voice, appropriation and discourse representation in a student writing task. Linguistics and Education, 9 (3). pp. 227-250. ISSN 08985898 doi: 10.1016/S0898-5898(97)90001-2

Abstract/Summary

We investigate the practices by which bilingual university students in Hong Kong appropriate texts in producing utterances, particularly written texts. Following Wertsch and his colleagues we ask: • To what extent do our students appropriate texts in constructing their own discourses? • What linguistic means do they use to do this? • What can these processes tell us about what they now can do with discourse representation; and • What do we need to teach them? This research shows that our students' writing displays considerable intertextuality and interdiscursivity. Responses to this writing in tutorial sessions indicate that they are skilled at orchestrating the multiple voices within their own discourses. The commonly stated concern that our students do not know how to do quotation and citation correctly is somewhat misplaced and researchers need to move the focus away from the mechanisms of citation and attribution to the social practices of textual appropriation.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/58433
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/S0898-5898(97)90001-2
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics
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