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WG progress report (for WG leaders only)

The information provided by the WG leaders will be:

  • used for presenting the WG progress during the MC meeting in Potsdam (Germany; 4 April 2011),
  • inserted in the annual progress report due to the COST Office on the 18 April 2011,
  • inserted in the template and the poster that will be presented by the Chair during the ISCH Annual Progress Conference 2011 in Brussels on the 7-8 of June 2011 (template and posters are due to the COST Office on the 17 May 2010).

For memory, the scientific project of the COST Action can be downloaded here

Working Group Progress Report
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1) Scientific progress of your WG:

Please, rate the state of advancement of the various topics composing your WG programme (According to the Action IS0703 ERN-LWE project - pages 9-13)

Criteria
1: not developed yet
2: investigations: designed-in course
3: data: collected-analyzed
4: results: presentations (conferences, workshops)
5: results: publications (at least) in press (articles, chapters)
6 : final state - dissemination in the society (recommendations).

You can comment the state of advancement.

Working Group 1:

Early acquisition of writing skills (education): Describing the acquisition of writing by pupils with or without learning difficulties in their mother tongue (L1) and a second language (L2); understanding learning difficulties; analysing the impact of teaching situations.
Programme 1.1. Spelling acquisition
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Programme 1.2. Difficulties in writing and their impact on composition :
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Programme 1.3. Text genre acquisition :
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Working Group 2:

Improvements in written communication (education and workplace): describing the development of different writing skills in two languages; understanding the factors favouring the development of expertise; comparing and designing specific and appropriate training situations.
Programme 2.1. Improving writing in L1 and L2
- Transfers between L1 and L2 writing strategies :
- Testing the effect of learning environments: :
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Programme 2.2. Comparative analysis of genres and genre teaching methods
- Comparisons of genres and genre teaching practices. :
- Permeability of genres between L1 and L2: :
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Design of written documents (workplace): describing how professional writers manage their skills and knowledge; improving documents’ communicative impact; modelling expertise.
Programme 3.1. How the impact of text design on the user can provide insight for the writer
- Studying, via eye-tracking the effect of poorly-designed instructions :
- Studying the impact of text design on decision-making :
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Program 3.2. : Professional writers’ strategies :
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Working Group 4

Technological advances in writing tools (cross-disciplinary): developing and standardising technological tools for studying and fostering the writing process; developing a database.
Programme 4.1. Eye movements during writing: reading as a writing subprocess :
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Programme 4.2. Impact of digital technology on writing and the learning of writing skills.
- Comparing handwriting and typewriting: :
- Observing one’s own activity via digital recordings :
Programme 4.3. Data standardisation
Programme 4.3. Data standardisation :
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2) Outcomes of your WG
According to the Action IS0703 ERN-LWE project (pages 13-14), the programmes of the four Working Groups (WGs) will be completed within 4 years (may 2008 – may 2012). In between the meetings, workshops and conferences, the WGs will work remotely, via the Website. The missions of each WG will include:
I. eading the programmes and projects so that concrete outcomes be discussed each year at the WG’s meeting and formally presented during the Workshops: data, analysis, preliminary findings, findings, recommendations:
During the 2010-2011 period, have you:
(a) - organized a WG meeting (i.e. Editorial Strategic Meeting) :
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If "yes" or "in course", indicate :
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(b)-contributed to the organization of the 2011 workshops in Potsdam and in Lodz? :
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(c) - contributed to other events (meetings, conferences, etc.) in relationship with your WG programme? :
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II. structuring the programmes in such a way that new researchers and/or countries can join them and enhance their development. This is entirely feasible, given the openings that have deliberately been built into each project: inter-language comparisons, comparisons of teaching methods and genres, investigations involving writers of different ages and with different levels of expertise. The aim will be to extend observations right across Europe, all the while keeping scientific questions to the fore:
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Enter below the Name, Surname, University, Country, E-mails of new members joining your WG this year (2010-2011). Please note that the MC in Potsdam will have to state their definite integrations, on the basis of CV and WG leaders recommendations. Please, upload the CV of each ones.
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(if more slots are necessary for new members, please, valid entirely this form first and fill this part on more time, indicating at the beginning your WG number)
III. encouraging the active participation of junior researchers:
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IV. facilitating the mobility of researchers:
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V. disseminating research findings at the very highest scientific level (international communication and publications in journals indexed in the Journal of Citation Reports):
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VI. drafting recommendations based on findings:
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VII. sharing all the data that is collected (database on the Website) and all useful documents (references, bibliographies, manuals, etc.);
Are you working inside your WG at the constitution of a database to collect data, etc. ? :
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VIII. inviting and working with international experts, either at an individual level or at the level of the associations.
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3) WG publication plan
Within your WG, are you working on a joint publication project for 2011-2012 ? :
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If "Yes", could you provide the title, the type of publication and a brief abstract (3-4 lines) ?
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WG publication 2
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WG publication 3
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4) Monitoring your Working Group
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5) To conclude
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Thank you very much for your contribution.

 
 

Last update : 4 March 2011

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