Home > Catalogue > EL.LE > 8 | 2 | 2019 > Revision Strategy and Self-Diagnosis in Italian L1 and L2 Argumentative Essays

EL.LE | Vol. 8 | Issue 2 | July 2019

« previous article | next article »
cover
cover
Research Article

Revision Strategy and Self-Diagnosis in Italian L1 and L2 Argumentative Essays

Yahis Martari    Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italia    

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

The present study investigates the effects of Revision Strategy (RS) on Argumentative Essay (AE) writing. Specifically, the study provides an analysis of 58 short AEs written by L1 and L2 university students. Two different levels of errors are examined: linguistic (Spelling, (Morpho)syntax, Lexicon, Syntax, Punctuation) and structure (Text structure and Coherence) errors, in order to measure how RS influences the texts. The comparison between RS and non-RS samples shows a significant difference in favour of texts with RS. In fact, we can surmise that RS positively influences text production both in L1 and L2 writing. In the third section we provide a quantitative analysis of the errors and we find some common issues within the specific rhetorical and linguistic framework of AE.

Published
Feb. 28, 2020
Accepted
July 30, 2019
Submitted
Jan. 28, 2019
Language
EN

Keywords: Revision Strategy • Italian for Academic Purpose • Short argumentative essay • Self-regulation

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2019/02/011

Copyright: © 2019 Yahis Martari. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.