Writing Processes in L1 and L2

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Writing Processes in L1 and L2

• Marion Tillema
• Daphne van Weijen
• Uiltjesdagen, 11th of May, 2004

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Pupil 1

• I believe that first of all you have to be
  married, if you want to have kids, because the
  child has a right to a legal father and mother.
  And if you are married, I think you have to think
  a lot before having a child or not, because it
  will affect you for the rest of your life.

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Pupil 2

• A word like stress means, just like success,
  is (I Thik so) rite, because you will succes when
  you press to stress. Than go you beter you best,
  and that is good.

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Observations

• Performance loss pupil 2 much larger than pupil 1
• What causes this?

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Explanation

• L1 default organization of processes results in a
  good quality text
• Organization processes

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For example

• Goal setting
• it should be about living alone
• Generating Ideas
• (thinking) disadvantages of living alone
• Structuring
• Ill put this at the end
• Formulating
• (writing) Iagreewiththis
• Rereading own text
• part or whole previous or further back
• Revising
• replaces to by at

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Characteristics of L1 default organization

• 1) Temporal Distribution the moment at which
  processes occur
• 2) Writing Rhythms (recurring) clusters of
  processes

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Writing in L2

• Writing skill in L2 depends on stability and
  quality of default organization of processes in
  L1.