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Sensitizing Citing Practices of Graduate Students of TEFL in Academic Summary Writing
Sensibilización de las prácticas de citación para la redacción de resúmenes académicos en estudiantes de posgrado de enseñanza del inglés
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https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v25n1.101568Keywords:
citing practices, graduate students, L2 academic writing, sensitization, source texts, source-text use (en)escritura académica en segunda lengua, estudiantes de posgrado, sensibilización, textos fuente, uso de los textos fuente (es)
This study investigates how sensitizing graduate L2 students about source-text use might affect their citation practices. Two summary writing tasks involving two similar published articles, one irrelevant and one pertinent to source-text use, were assigned individually to 16 graduate English language teaching students from Iran. After completing the tasks, the students participated in retrospective interviews about their source-text use. Recursive thematic data analysis indicated that while they were inclined towards more direct source-text use in the first summary, they opted for more indirect and academic source-text use that involved their contribution and interpretation in the sensitizing task. The paper discusses the significance of sensitizing students to source-text use.
Este estudio muestra cómo la sensibilización sobre el uso de textos fuente modificó las prácticas de citación de dieciséis estudiantes de posgrado de enseñanza del inglés iraníes. Los participantes hicieron resúmenes escritos de dos artículos: uno relacionado con el uso de textos fuente y el otro no. Tras esto, se preguntó a los participantes sobre su uso de las fuentes. El análisis temático de los datos reveló que los participantes hicieron un uso más directo de las fuentes para la elaboración del primer resumen mientras que para el segundo, y tras la actividad de sensibilización, optaron por un uso indirecto y académico que incluía su interpretación y contribución personal. Se discute la importancia de sensibilizar a los estudiantes sobre el uso de los textos fuente.
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