Use Student-Written Texts in Literacy Instruction¶

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Description¶

An implementable teaching recipe drawn from the documented classroom practice: form voluntary research groups, investigate a topic through discussion, have each student write individual findings, exchange texts with other groups, compare them with prior knowledge, build collective concept maps, respond across groups, and revise. Students must "substantiate their knowledge base with reference materials" rather than accept peer texts blindly.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Time for group research and multiple rounds of written exchange
Teacher feedback alongside peer feedback before revision

Constraints¶

Suited to learners with sufficient vocabulary to write for peers; the author notes limits of learners' syntactic development

Target Learners¶

first-year EFL university students

Target Learning Goals¶

conceptual change
independent reading
cooperative learning

Examples¶

Key Sources¶

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

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