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AuthorDebra, Myhill
AuthorAhmed, Abdelhamid
AuthorRezk, Lameya
Available date2023-06-07T05:40:26Z
Publication Date2023-05-12
Publication NameLinguistics and Education
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101184
CitationD. Myhill, A. Ahmed and L. Rezk, Engaging with readers: Students’ metalinguistic understanding of the use of pronouns in building reader-writer relationships, Linguistics and Education, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101184
ISSN08985898
URIhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589823000396
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/44013
AbstractStudents’ metalinguistic understanding of the written academic argument is important both to increase writer independence and inform writing instruction. This article draws on a study which investigated undergraduate students’ metalinguistic understanding of the metadiscourse features in their own written arguments. The specific focus of the paper is to determine what metalinguistic understanding students express about the use of pronouns in written argument as engagement or stance markers to build a relationship with the reader. The analysis indicates many students believed the use of reader pronouns were inappropriate in written argument, often because this was what they had been taught. Students’ metalinguistic understanding was shaped more by notions of formality and objectivity than by understanding of how pronouns play a role in reader engagement. The article argues that greater emphasis on the function of pronouns rather than the form, drawing on metadiscourse theory, and on generating metalinguistic understanding of the differing ways that pronouns function in written argument might better support writers in agentic linguistic decision-making.
Languageen
PublisherElsevier
SubjectMetalinguistic understanding
Metadiscourse
Reader pronouns
Writing instruction
TitleEngaging with readers: Students’ metalinguistic understanding of the use of pronouns in building reader-writer relationships
TypeArticle
Open Access user License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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