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      Paying attention to identity in advanced EAP writing class

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      Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
      Faculdade de Letras - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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          The present article discusses how students in the advanced EAP (English as a foreign language) writing course at a private university in Mexico City become aware of choosing different identities in a written assignment, and how this decision can help them deal with the course requirements. After addressing the issue of identity in class and carrying out activities to develop social identities, and collecting samples of their writing, the students were questioned about their decision of projecting their identities in their papers in order to find out whether the understanding of the importance of identity in academic writing and its projection in their written essays would facilitate its writing. In addition, it was deemed interesting to learn about whether they found it easier to meet the demands and conventions of that particular essay by being aware of the possibilities of constructing their identities.

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          Este artigo discute de que forma alunos de um curso de produção de textos em LE, em uma univeridade particular na Cidade do México, se dão conta da escolha de diferentes identidades em uma atividade de escrita e como essa decisão pode auxiliá-los com relação à demanda do curso. Depois de abordar a questão da identidade em sala, de propor atividades com o propósito de desenvolver identidades sociais e de coletar uma amostragem de textos, os alunos foram questionados sobre a decisão de projetarem suas identidades nos textos, com o objetivo de descobrir se a compreensão da importância da identidade na redação acadêmica e a projeção dessa identidade nos textos facilitaria a escrita. Além disso, foi interessante avaliar se eles encontraram dificuldades de atender às exigências e convenções do texto em questão, ao estarem conscientes das possibilidades de construção de suas próprias identidades nesse mesmo texto.

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                rbla
                Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
                Rev. bras. linguist. apl.
                Faculdade de Letras - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil )
                1984-6398
                2004
                : 4
                : 1
                : 315-328
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                [01] México orgnameITESM orgdiv1CCM
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                S1984-63982004000100017 S1984-6398(04)00400100017
                10.1590/S1984-63982004000100017
                fca0674a-7af3-4806-a09e-49e47c2689f7

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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