Presentation
Facilitating foreign language writing development through textual borrowing
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of French and Italian
(2016)
Abstract
In recent years, limitations of the long dominant orientation to foreign language (FL) writing instruction in U.S. collegiate contexts, process-based instruction, have come to light, and the genre-based approach has gained momentum. In our presentation, we will describe one genre-based instructional strategy, textual borrowing, or the appropriation of language from model texts into learners’ written texts, and its benefits for learners’ development as both readers and writers of FL texts. We will argue that textual borrowing is a flexible strategy that can be woven into FL courses of all types and at various levels. Pedagogical examples will be shared from a 100-level French language course and a pilot study currently being conducted in an advanced 200-level French cultural studies course in our department.
Keywords
- foreign language,
- writing,
- genre,
- literacy,
- multiliteracies,
- textual borrowing
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 24, 2016
Citation Information
Heather W. Allen and Lauren Goodspeed. "Facilitating foreign language writing development through textual borrowing" University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of French and Italian (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/heatherwillisallen/61/