Presentation at the Research School SIG Writing 2020 #righttowrite ‘Integrating multiple perspectives on writing’

Buntinx, Natacha;Meunier, Fanny
(2020) Research School of the SIG Writing 2020 #righttowrite — Location: Umeå University, Sweden (cancelled due to Covid-19) (13.June.2020)

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This paper presentation will report on the initial stages of my PhD project, from its genesis based on data from my Master’s thesis, to the preliminary results of a pilot study (Spring 2020). The project aims to describe the challenges encountered by student writers who produce academic texts based on sources in multiple languages. Their negotiation of pluriliteracies is analysed from a social and a cognitive perspective. The social approach relies on the notion of intertextuality. Bakhtin (1981) describes this phenomenon as a recontextualization leading to the ascription of new semantic intentions to words that already bear some in their source uses. The presence of several languages among sources adds a supplementary layer of recontextualization, as the source content is likely to be translated and confronted to related content in other languages. The cognitive approach is centred around writing processes, which have been described in several models. The distinctions between first and second language models led to comparisons between writing processes in L1 and L2/FL (e.g., Roca De Larios, Manchón & Murphy, 2006). However, composition processes have solely been studied through experiment designs in which the source language matched the composition language. To my knowledge, research has not yet been conducted on the cognitive processes at stake when composing across languages. The present study focuses on code glosses as an intertextual practice – the source-based choice or construction of a definition – and whose cognitive realization can also be observed. This will be done through 1) observations and interviews of master’s students working on their thesis; 2) a comparison of students’ composition processes in match (i.e. the source language corresponds to the composition language) and non-match (i.e. the languages of the sources only partially match the composition language) situations, using think-aloud protocols, video screen captures, keystroke logs, and recall interviews. References Bakhtin, M.M. (1981). Discourse in the novel. In: The Dialogic Imagination (pp. 259-422). Austin: University of Texas Press. Roca De Larios, J., Manchón, R.M., & Murphy, L. (2006). Generating text in native and foreign language writing: A temporal analysis of problem-solving formulation processes. The Modern Language Journal, 90(1), 100-14.
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Buntinx, N., & Meunier, F. (2020). Presentation at the Research School SIG Writing 2020 #righttowrite ‘Integrating multiple perspectives on writing’. Research School of the SIG Writing 2020 #righttowrite, Umeå University, Sweden (cancelled due to Covid-19). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/122313