Degrees of Reasoning: Student Uptake of a Language-Focused Approach to Scaffolding Patterns of Logical Reasoning in the Case Analysis Genre

• Published in: TESOL quarterly Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1278 - 1310
• Main Authors: Mitchell, Thomas D, Pessoa, Silvia, Gómez-Laich, María Pía, Maune, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Applied Linguistics; Case Method (Teaching Technique); Case Studies; College Students; Heuristics; Paragraph Composition; Semantics; Writing (Composition); Writing Evaluation; Writing Instruction

This study reports on student writing outcomes from a two-year interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists (the authors) and an organizational behavior (OB) professor. We used an ethnographic language-focused approach to make explicit the linguistic features of the case analysis genre...