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Hirvela and Belcher, in their thought-provoking focus paper, raise concerns about the lack of explicit focus on the study of expertise in the field of Second Language Writing (SLW). In responding to their call to fill the "expertise gap" in second language writing instruction (SLWI), I argue that attempts to identify who expert L2 writing teachers are or what L2 writing teacher expertise is can fall into reductionist characterizations and binary comparisons of novice and expert writing instructors, which is counter-productive to contextually driven fields such as SLW where teacher identity is an important pedagogical resource . If we view the act of teaching, especially teaching of writing, as a dialogic mediation with diverse identities, coming up with parameters around expert teachers of writing limits the epistemological and pedagogical diversity, which in turn, may perpetuate unequal relations of power and hegemonic knowledge systems within the field of SLW. With this in mind, I invite us to shift the unit of analysis in the expertise models from teacher knowledge and skills to network of activities that take place in writing instruction, and offer activity theory as a potentia

Who reads Activity theory as an analytical framework to understand expertise in L2 writing instruction?

Author

Lisya Seloni

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)