{"product_id":"9783030558475","title":"Dynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing: Vygotskian and Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eShrestha, Prithvi N.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as \u003ci\u003eDynamic Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. DA blends instruction with assessment by targeting and further developing students’ \u003ci\u003eZone of Proximal Development\u003c\/i\u003e (ZPD).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book presents the application of DA to assessing academic writing by developing a set of DA procedures for academic writing teachers. It further demonstrates the application of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), combined with DA, to track undergraduate business management students’ academic writing and conceptual development in distance education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work extends previous DA studies in three key ways: i) it explicitly focuses on the construction of a \u003ci\u003emacrogenre\u003c\/i\u003e (whole text) as opposed to investigations of decontextualized language fragments, ii) it offers the first in-depth application of the powerful SFL tool to analyse students’ academic writing to track their academic writing trajectory in DA research, and iii) it identifies a range of mediational strategies and consequently expands Poehner’s (2005) framework of mediation typologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDynamic Assessment of Students’ Academic Writing\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great value to academic writing researchers and teachers, language assessment researchers and postgraduate students interested in academic writing, alternative assessment and formative feedback in higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-09-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030558475\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-55845-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 246.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385524281484,"sku":"9783030558475","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030558475.jpg?v=1765564030","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030558475","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}