Project: The Effect of Language in Idea Generati...

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The Effect of Language in Idea Generation on Academic Texts
Description:

This project examines whether the choice of language used for generating ideas (L1 or target language English) has an influence on the quality of academic writing. Writing samples were collected from eight EFL students in Iran based on six writing prompts eliciting texts of approximately 160 words each. In a balanced design, the students produced texts for each of the six prompts either in the L1 (Persian) or the L2 (English) condition. In a first phase the focus is on the incidence of errors. The errors were identified by means of the Scope-Substance Error Taxonomy (Dobric & Sigott, 2014; Sigott, Cesnik & Dobric, 2016). The data were analysed for sigificant differences in the error incidence between the two language conditions. In a second phase the performances could be submitted to a rating procedure in order to quantify aspects of text which are not captured by the error taxonomy.
Keywords: writing research, error taxonomy, process writing, role of language in idea generation
Short title: Effect of Language Choice in Pre-writing
Period: 01.02.2017 - 31.12.2020
Contact e-mail: guenther.sigott@aau.at
Homepage: https://www.aau.at/en/language-testing-centre/

Employees
Employees Role Time period
Günther Sigott
Guenther.Sigott@aau.at
Research activities
To visiting card
(internal)
  • Project leader
  • 01.02.2017 - 31.12.2020
Soheila Mahernia
Research activities
(external)
  • PhD student
  • 01.02.2017 - 31.12.2020
Hermann Cesnik
Hermann.Cesnik@aau.at
Research activities
To visiting card
(internal)
  • Research staff
  • 01.02.2017 - 31.12.2020
Ursula Doleschal
Ursula.Doleschal@aau.at
Institut für Slawistik
Research activities
To visiting card
(internal)
  • Project leader
  • 01.02.2017 - 31.12.2020

Assignment
Organisational unit
Universität Klagenfurt
  SchreibCenter (SC)
Universitätsstraße 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
   schreibcenter@aau.at
https://www.aau.at/schreibcenter
To organisation
Universität Klagenfurt
  Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID)
Universitätsstr. 65-67
A-9020 Klagenfurt
Austria
  +43 463 2700 9600
   zid@aau.at
http://zid.aau.at
To organisation
Fakultät für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften
  Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Universitätstraße 65 - 67
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria
   anglistik@aau.at
https://www.aau.at/en/english/
To organisation

Categorisation
Project type Current focus of work
Funding type Other
Research type
  • Fundamental research
  • Applied research
Subject areas
  • 503029 - Language teaching research
  • 602007 - Applied linguistics
  • 602008 - English studies
  • 101018 - Statistics
Research Cluster
  • Educational research
Gender aspects Genderrelevance not selected
Project focus
  • Science to Science (Quality indicator: n.a.)
Classification raster of the assigned organisational units:
working groups
  • Angewandte Linguistik

Funding
No available funding programs

Cooperations
No partner organisations selected