From theory to practice : first steps into academic writing

• Autores: Nicolau, Erika
• Año de publicación: 2024
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: documento de conferencia
• Fuente: IV Jornadas Nacionales del Profesorado de Inglés; Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2 y 3 de agosto de 2024; ISBN 978-987-811-206-0
• Materia: Educación; Register; Academic writing; SFL; Practice; Theory
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

The aim of this work is to examine a lesson plan and its designs to create links to accurately connect theoretical background information, which advanced university students will already have, and the corpus proposed in their syllabi to their practical lessons in connection to academic writing. As teachers, building those bridges is, at times, a daunting job where the abstraction of the theory proposed needs to be anchored to some level of hands-on practice. Thus, what is being proposed in this work is to analyse a 2-hour lesson from the teacher's point of view which takes the topic of Register from the SFL perspective and paves the way to writing academically. By doing so, we will be studying the choices the teacher had to make in order to connect writing and SFL theory and successfully encourage students to understand how the concepts of "tenor, mode and field" are indeed paramount when it comes to writing academically appropriate texts as students and as future graduates, understand the importance of making choices in writing and how those choices need to be justified accordingly as to scaffold future written productions and to identify genre and register. Designing lessons that encourage agency and autonomy when choice making will be the foundation of their works as teachers, translators and/or researchers. As theoretical support for the planning and designing of the lesson, authors from different grammatical studies were taken into account such as Halliday, Hassan, Ghadessy, Biber, Conrad, among others.
Fil: Nicolau, Erika. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.