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- Title
Coping with On-the-Job Writing in ESL: A Constructivist-Semiotic Perspective.
- Authors
Parks, Susan; Maguire, Mary H.
- Abstract
Despite a long-standing interest within applied linguistics in the analysis of written genres, few studies have attempted to show how such genres are appropriated by new members in academic or workplace settings. Based on a 22-month qualitative study, this article reports on how francophone nurses, who were newly hired in an English-medium hospital in Montreal, Canada, developed skill in writing nursing notes (which differed from the way they were done in French) in English. Central to the analysis is the construct of mediation, explored in terms of how collaborative processes, both overt and covert, shape text production as well as other less visible, taken-for-granted aspects of the social context.
- Subjects
CANADA; NURSES; LANGUAGE &; languages; WRITING; CANADIAN English language
- Publication
Language Learning, 1999, Vol 49, Issue 1, p143
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9922.00073