Lit Review Article #5

I. Title: Writing Instruction From a Sociocultural Perspective: The Holistic, Dialogic, and Social Enterprise of Writing

II. Author Englert, Carol Sue

III. Author's Purpose for Writing: Proving that writing is a holistic cognitive activity; cognitive processes are learned in dialogic interactions with others; cognitive development occurs in students’ zones of proximal development; and knowledge construction is a social and cultural phenomenon.

IV. What are the points made in the review of the literature? Do they support the need for the study?

V. Author's Inquiry Question/s
What is the writing contexts in which students with learning disabilities were instructed and what type of instructional programs develop strategic writers?
VI. Author's Methodology
A. Who is being studied? General ed students, students with learning disabilities and students in the fourth and fifth grades
B. Over what length of time? Three years
C. What data is being collected? Observation
D. How is it being analyzed? Comparison of regular ed students with special ed students and their writing skills increasing with similar scaffolding and apprenticeship of the students
E. Any other interesting or pertinent data use scaffolding to temporarily support students’ writing. Students apprentices of writing following strategies to develop self-talk by discussing and question in writing groups and publishing for authentic voice and ownership of writing

VII. How the author collected information?

VIII. What the Author Discovered or Conclusions/Implications 1) social constructivist framework was used as a model to provide an important basis for developing and examining writing programs for students with learning dis. 2) emphasis on writing as a holistic process, with instruction that emphasizes the dialogic and social nature of writing., provides an important social framework 3) teachers must involve them in the holistic and authentic communicative enterprise of writing, apprentice them in strategies through interactive classroom dialogues about writing 4) social constructivism can provide an important theoretical and instructional framework for promoting self-regulation and empowerment of writers with learning disabilities..