Nakatake Maiko
JACET-Kanto journal = JACET関東支部学会誌 2(2) 55-69 2015年3月 査読有り
Little research has reported on how EFL students revise their subsequent drafts after writing center tutorials. The purpose of this study is to investigate (1) how Japanese EFL students use what they learned through tutorial sessions in revising their drafts and (2) the reasons for their use of what they learned through sessions. Data include transcripts of eight audio- and video-recorded tutorial sessions, students' first and subsequent revised drafts, and transcripts of retrospective interviews with the students. Results showed that the students mostly incorporated what was discussed during the sessions but also made revisions that were not discussed in the sessions. Through retrospective interviews with the students, it was suggested that even though students made revisions that were not discussed during the sessions, such self-initiated revisions were sometimes stimulated by tutorial discussions in other parts of their papers. The findings of this study suggest that writing center tutorials can encourage students to be more conscious of readers as well as the problematic points in their texts and also to discover how to improve their texts effectively by themselves, which can help to foster autonomous writers.