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Academic Integrity and Second-language Users

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Task

Which is the following ways to support academic integrity with those whose first language is not English, could in turn benefit all students?

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You may also choose to discuss your response with a colleague or as part of a team meeting or CPD session.

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Myths

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Myth 1

It is a cultural issue - students avoid giving own views as this is challenging authority so do, instead experts are copied.

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Research shows that this stereotype is inaccurate e.g. In Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese education, plagiarism is not legitimised.

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Myth 2

Students don’t know it is a dishonest act to engage in.

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This is an easy option for educators to believe, as it prevents educators from taking necessary action to ensure assessment design which minimised breaches in academic integrity.

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Factors for students whose first language is not English

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  • Past ‘closed book’ assessment experience does not provide sufficient understanding for what is called for in ‘open book’ assessment

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  • They resort to “Patchwriting” (Imitating an expert is a common way to learn a skill – this leads to students plagiarising academic writing via paraphrasing and sampling for a variety of sources which are patched together)

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  • Telling students plagiarism is wrong can’t fix a skills deficit. Skills deficit leads to contract cheating. failure or patchwriting.

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Actions to Close the Skills Gap

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  • Make assessment skills a learning outcome
  • How to transition from patchwriting to good academic writing
  • Scaffold transition from where they are to where they need to be.
  • Done by subject educators embedded throughout course and not only as pre-course induction module.
  • If an assessment can be plagiarised, it needs redesigned
  • Academic discourse is nobody’s mother tongue- this will help all students!

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Diane Pecorari

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Plagiarism and academic literacy

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Go Further

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Cambridge University Press ELT (2019) Diane Pecorari Plagiarism and academic literacy October 2019. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLXrWuJ2nAo

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