Papers, posters, workshops by Lerida Cisotto
22nd Annual Meeting Society for Text and Discourse, 2012
This exploratory study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies and the... more This exploratory study aimed at investigating the relationship between writing strategies and the quality of written argumentation in 120 high-school students. Only half participants attended a training program on writing to argue. During pre- and post-intervention sessions, all students were asked to write an argumentative essay in order to analyze their writing abilities in argumentation. Through five questionnaires, participants’ previous knowledge and stance, their reasoning skills and their beliefs and experiences about argumentation and writing were also analyzed. Findings and empirical implications will be discussed.
Papers by Lerida Cisotto
Academic writing skills in university students are investigated from the perspective of primary t... more Academic writing skills in university students are investigated from the perspective of primary teachers' approaches to, and beliefs about, these skills, introduced in the contribution by Lerida Cisotto, Silvia Del Longo, and Nazzarena Novello.
Rassegna Di Psicologia, 1995
Writing as a Learning Activity, 2014
Instructional research and practices have focused until now on writing as the process and product... more Instructional research and practices have focused until now on writing as the process and product of composing texts, and on its role in reasoning and learning. This chapter explores how writing relates to thinking and learning, and how teaching the use of writing tools in support of general writing strategies plays a role in learning specific strategies, such as those for argumentative discourse. It investigates the role of writing tools in learning strategies for two types of argumentative discourse in secondary education: persuasive essays and academic debates. The chapter explores the role of writing in learning oral argumentation. It uses strategic writing tools as the basis on which to develop effective self-regulated strategy instruction. Writing is thus conceived here as a learning activity in the sense that it thoroughly and extensively supports argumentative learning processes in the form of thinking tools for argumentative speaking and writing. Keywords: academic debates; argumentative speaking; argumentative writing; learning strategies; oral argumentation; persuasive essays; self-regulated strategy instruction; writing strategies; writing tools
Learning and Instruction, 1999
Two methods of teaching writing in first grade are adopted in Italian elementary schools: analyti... more Two methods of teaching writing in first grade are adopted in Italian elementary schools: analytic or phonic-syllabic and global. The former starts with the presentation to children of letters which are combined into words and sentences, whereas the latter emphasizes writing as a meaningful activity, and consequently its starting point is represented by words and/or sentences. Twelve first grade teachers (six following the analytic and six the global method) had to Q-sort 85 instructional activities commonly used when teaching to write. From factor analysis applied to the Q-data two factors emerged, one referring to the analytic and the other to the globalistic teachers. The relationship between the two factors and the activities is presented and discussed.
Quaderni Di Didattica Della Scrittura, 2005
10 On Narrative Reading-Writing Relationships: How Young Writers Construe the Reader's Need ... more 10 On Narrative Reading-Writing Relationships: How Young Writers Construe the Reader's Need for Inferences Pietro Boscolo and Lerida Cisotto University ofPadova ...
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Papers, posters, workshops by Lerida Cisotto
Papers by Lerida Cisotto