While adolescent L2 writing has gained exponential research spotlight in the field of L2 writing, yet research on adolescent L2 English letter writing remains relatively scanty. In this paper, I draw on Appraisal from systemic functional linguistics to investigate the attitudinal resources used in L2 English letters written by adolescent Chinese EFL learners. I collect the data from two English letters written by a class of 50 junior three ESL students in Guangzhou China. I mainly look at Affect, Judgement and Appreciation from the system of Attitude in Appraisal to examine the interpersonal meaning-making in ESL learners’ L2 letter writing. I utilize both quantitative and descriptive approaches to analyze the data, which are repeated measures ANOVAs and case study. The findings reveal that judgment is the dominant attitudinal resources that used in the interpersonal meaning-making in these students’ letter writing and there exist significant differences under the use of different attitudinal resources between the two letters studied. These findings provide feedback to our understanding of interpersonal meaning-making in adolescent L2 letter writing. In addition, they also offer implications on how Appraisal could be leveraged as a framework in L2 writing assessment.
Abstract Introduction Writing as Meaning-Making Research into Interpersonal Meaning-Making in Students’ Writing Theoretical Underpinnings: Appraisal Framework in Systemic Functional Linguistics Research Questions Research Site and Participants Data Collection Data Analysis Coding Transcription of the Handwritten Texts Identification of Unit of Analysis Identification of Attitudinal Resources Analysis Results and Findings Research Question 1: Overall Employment of Appraisal Resources Research Question 2: Comparison between the Two Tasks Case Study Summary of Attitudinal Resources Used in Students’ English Letter Writing Discussion Pedagogical Implications Conclusion Limitations Acknowledgements The Author References
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간행물명
The Journal of AsiaTEFL
간기
계간
pISSN
1738-3102
eISSN
2466-1511
수록기간
2004~2026
등재여부
SCOPUS,KCI 등재
십진분류
KDC 740DDC 420
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / The Journal of AsiaTEFL Vol.20 No.2