Table 3 “Inner” context of the students’ writing across the year
“Inner”, Context of text | Learn to smile | Letter to a Mike | Trip to Hangzhou | Steve Jobs | Lifelong learning | An Activity | A letter to Mum | How to be a good learner? | Advantages and disadvantages of micro blog | Charity sale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Field | Social-semiotic process | Recommending course of action: advising readers | Recommending course of action: advising readers | Sharing personal experiences | Reporting: chronicling events | Recommending course of action: advising readers | Sharing personal experiences | Sharing personal feelings | Recommending course of action: advising reader | Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of blog | Sharing an event |
Experiential domain | Effective social behavior: smile | Health | Trip to Hangzhou | Job’s life | Lifelong learning: suggestions and ideas | Extracurricular activities | Communication problems | Ways to be a good learner | Personal opinions on micro blog | Charity sale | |
Tenor | Institutional roles | Not clear | Friend to friend | Friend to friend | Not clear | Not clear | Not clear | Child to Mum | Not clear | Not clear | Not clear |
Power | Not clear | Equal | Equal | Not clear | Not clear | Not clear | Unequal | Not clear | Not clear | Not clear | |
Familiarity | Not clear | Familiar | Familiar | Not clear | Not clear | Not clear | Familiar | Not clear | Not clear | Not clear | |
Affect | Engaging readers: positive | Engaging reader: positive | Neutral | Neutral | Engaging reader: positive | Neutral | Neutral | Engaging readers: Positive | Engaging readers: Positive | Neutral | |
Mode | Orientation | Tenor-oriented | Tenor-oriented | Field-oriented | Field-oriented | Tenor-oriented | Field-oriented | Tenor-oriented | Field-oriented | Field-oriented | Field-oriented |
Division of socio-semiotic labor | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | Text constitutive of context | |
Division of semiotic labor | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | Language only | |
Medium | Written | Written | Written | Written | Written | Written | Written | Written | Written | Written | |
Channel | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | Hand-written | |
Genre | Advice column | Advice column | Recount | Biographical Recount | Advice column | Recount | Advice column | Advice column | Exposition | Recount | |