Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.
The boundaries of the field of contrastive rhetoric have been gradually increasing
to include, among others, cross-language studies of word recognition, text
structure, oral/aural differences, testing, instruction, and a myriad of other factors
in ...
On Second Language Writing brings together internationally recognized scholars in a collection of original articles that, collectively, delineate and explore central issues with regard to theory, research, instruction, assessment, politics, articulation with other disciplines, and standards. In recent years, there has been a dramatic growth of interest in second-language writing and writing instruction in many parts of the world. Although an increasing number of researchers and teachers in both second-language studies and composition studies have come to identify themselves as specialists in second-language writing, research and teaching practices have been dispersed into several different disciplinary and institutional contexts because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field. This volume is the first to bring together prominent second-language writing specialists to systematically address basic issues in the field and to consider the state of the art at the end of the century (and the millennium).
Joan G. Carson Georgia State University Considering the intersection of second
language acquisition (SLA) and second language (L2) writing is no easy task.
SLA theory aims to describe and explain learners' competence. L2 writing
focuses ...
Providing an authoritative, readable, and up-to-date guide to teaching writing to ESL Students, this book offers both pre- & in-service teachers advice that is grounded in current theory & research.
Learning how to write in a second language is one of the most challenging
aspects of second language learning. Perhaps this is not surprising in view of the
fact that even for those who speak English as a first language, the ability to write ...
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s notion of “bilingual creativity” as an enculturated, shaped discourse (a mutation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). Creative Writing (SL), a new subfield to emerge from Stylistics, extends David Hanauer’s Poetry as Research (2010); situating a suite of methodologies and interdisciplinary pedagogies, researchers in this book mobilize theories from Creativity Studies, TESOL, TETL, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Literary Studies. Changing the relationship between L2 writers and canonized literary artefacts (from auratic to dialogic), each essay in this text is essentially Freirean; each chapter explores dynamic processes through which creative writing in a non-native language engages material and phenomenological modes toward linguistic pluricentricity and, indeed, emancipation.
chapter 1 Appreciating the beauty of second language poetry writing David I.
Hanauer Indiana University of Pennsylvania This chapter presents a very
personal view of a pedagogical approach to the second language writing
classroom.
This text is a highly accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English.
7 Composing in English: effects of a first language on writing in English as a
second language Alexander Friedlander ... The belief is that if ESL writers do any
of their work in their first language, this will inhibit acquisition of the second ...
