Selection of a Topic of a Research Proposal of Emerging Academic Writers in a Blended Linked EAP Course

An Interactional Ethnographic Perspective

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ID7169366
AuthorsHaiyan Lai (0000-0002-2807-2087, Guangzhou Sport University Guangzhou China, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume59
Issue1
Pages390-420
Publication date2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTESOL Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-8322 • E-ISSN: 1545-7249
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/tesq.3316
OpenAlexW4393199794
LanguageEN
References cited20

Recent years have witnessed the ethnographic turn in academic writing research and the multimodal turn in classroom discourse studies. Most research proposal genre studies have only provided generic guidelines, and most EAP intervention studies have only provided pre‐ and post‐intervention learning outcomes but have not examined actual in‐depth classroom teaching and after‐class consultative processes of proposal development. This paper fills these gaps by following the view of genre as contextualized social practices and adopting interactional ethnography (IE) logic‐of‐inquiry to analyze video‐recorded linked EAP classroom interactions and WeChat‐mediated individual consultations focusing on postgraduate students' topic selection. IE‐guided reasoning and analysis may make the invisible research topic developmental processes transparent by utilizing IE analytic tools to visualize these dynamic and complex processes, identify cultural patterns of academic literacy practices, and (re)theorize educational phenomena. The IE approach may complement the well‐established three approaches to student writing (i.e., study skills, academic socialization, academic literacies) as the fourth approach for its deep theorizing, micro‐ethnographic discourse‐based analysis, and video‐enabled IE‐guided analytic tools. This study may make a methodological contribution to the EAP field through the IE as an epistemology with analytical tools and propose a tri‐level four‐step IE analytic model for teacher‐researchers' self‐reflexive professional development

English for academic purposes · Ethnography · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Wikis in Education and Collaboration

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