Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT
The story continuation writing task (SCWT) is a newly emerging proficiency test of National Matriculation English Test (NMET) in three provinces in China. Nevertheless, little is known with respect to how test-takers enhance their alignment of situation models in SCWT. This paper reports on a case s...
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| description | The story continuation writing task (SCWT) is a newly emerging proficiency test of National Matriculation English Test (NMET) in three provinces in China. Nevertheless, little is known with respect to how test-takers enhance their alignment of situation models in SCWT. This paper reports on a case study of the development of situational alignment of one L2 (second language) learner in a senior high school in Jiangsu Province, China, drawing on qualitative data collected via individual face-to-face interviews, and supplemented by face-to-face conversations and email exchanges, over a period of one year. This study investigates how the test-taker enhances her alignment of situation models, and what factors contribute to her development of situational alignment under the framework of a new semiotic research finding, a pan-indexicality model. This paper concludes that test-takers possess the capacity of developing their alignment of situation models, and that a pan-indexicality model, affording opportunities for test-takers to accurately decode the meaning of a linguistic sign at the overall sense level, plays a decisive role in identifying and integrating key dimensions of situation models and eventually enhancing test-takers’ situational alignment. This study suggests that a pan-indexicality model can be employed by test-takers to understand the meaning of a linguistic sign at the overall sense level, and test-takers’ encyclopedic knowledge, contextual information, and personal emotions regarding a linguistic sign should be highlighted in classroom instruction to help test-takers construct aligned situation models in SCWT. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9082755755e413bbc5889c8d48952a12023-06-26T10:46:44ZengDe GruyterLanguage and Semiotic Studies2751-71602022-12-018419721510.1515/lass-2022-0004Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWTZhu Jing0Duan Chunyun1Soochow University, Suzhou, P.R. ChinaSoochow University, Suzhou, P.R. ChinaThe story continuation writing task (SCWT) is a newly emerging proficiency test of National Matriculation English Test (NMET) in three provinces in China. Nevertheless, little is known with respect to how test-takers enhance their alignment of situation models in SCWT. This paper reports on a case study of the development of situational alignment of one L2 (second language) learner in a senior high school in Jiangsu Province, China, drawing on qualitative data collected via individual face-to-face interviews, and supplemented by face-to-face conversations and email exchanges, over a period of one year. This study investigates how the test-taker enhances her alignment of situation models, and what factors contribute to her development of situational alignment under the framework of a new semiotic research finding, a pan-indexicality model. This paper concludes that test-takers possess the capacity of developing their alignment of situation models, and that a pan-indexicality model, affording opportunities for test-takers to accurately decode the meaning of a linguistic sign at the overall sense level, plays a decisive role in identifying and integrating key dimensions of situation models and eventually enhancing test-takers’ situational alignment. This study suggests that a pan-indexicality model can be employed by test-takers to understand the meaning of a linguistic sign at the overall sense level, and test-takers’ encyclopedic knowledge, contextual information, and personal emotions regarding a linguistic sign should be highlighted in classroom instruction to help test-takers construct aligned situation models in SCWT.https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2022-0004alignment of situation modelslinguistic signpan-indexicality modelscwt |
| spellingShingle | Zhu Jing Duan Chunyun Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT Language and Semiotic Studies alignment of situation models linguistic sign pan-indexicality model scwt |
| title | Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT |
| title_full | Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT |
| title_fullStr | Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT |
| title_short | Sign and indexicality: a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in SCWT |
| title_sort | sign and indexicality a case study of enhancing alignment of situation models in scwt |
| topic | alignment of situation models linguistic sign pan-indexicality model scwt |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2022-0004 |
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