The processfolio: a critical action research intervention designed to mitigate negative impacts of writing assessment practices on agency in a UK EAP pre-sessional context

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The processfolio: a critical action research intervention designed to mitigate negative impacts of writing assessment practices on agency in a UK EAP pre-sessional context

This thesis is concerned with the interaction between assessment and agency. The context in which the research took place is an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) department of a UK university, specifically its summer pre-sessional courses which prepare and assess postgraduate international student...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pearson, Jayne
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	assessment action research EAP English for Academic Purposes critical realism
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56147/

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