Student-Written Texts

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Description

Learner-authored texts used as supplementary reading resources in literacy instruction. The article assigns them three functions: activating prior knowledge, directing learners' focus to key information, and aiding recall by linking known and new information. They formed the central design element of the documented classroom practice, in which students wrote, exchanged, questioned, and revised texts.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Students compose texts to share with class members and substantiate their knowledge base with reference materials

Constraints

• Limited by learners' vocabulary and syntactic development, as the author acknowledges

Target Learners

• first-year EFL university students

Target Learning Goals

• reading comprehension
• conceptual understanding

Claims

Related Elements

Examples

• Use Student-Written Texts in Literacy Instruction
• Language Experience Approach

Key Sources

• Student-written texts as supplementary reading material in EFL literacy instruction. (2005). https://eric.ed.gov

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