Landmark Essays On Esl Writing

Author : Tony Silva,Paul Kei Matsuda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136692581

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Landmark Essays on ESL Writing by Tony Silva,Paul Kei Matsuda Pdf

In recent years, the number of nonnative speakers of English in colleges and universities in North America has increased dramatically. As a result, more and more writing teachers have found themselves working with these English as a Second Language (ESL) students in writing classes that are designed primarily with monolingual, native-English-speaking students in mind. Since the majority of institutions require these students to enroll in writing courses at all levels, it is becoming increasingly important for all writing teachers to be aware of the presence and special linguistic and cultural needs of ESL writers. This increase in the ESL population has, over the last 40 years, been paralleled by a similar growth in research on ESL writing and writing instruction--research that writing teachers need to be familiar with in order to work effectively with ESL writers in writing classrooms of all levels and types. Until recently, however, this body of knowledge has not been very accessible to writing teachers and researchers who do not specialize in second language research and instruction. This volume is an attempt to remedy this problem by providing a sense of how ESL writing scholarship has evolved over the last four decades. It brings together 15 articles that address various issues in second language writing in general and ESL writing in particular. In selecting articles for inclusion, the editors tried to take a principled approach. The articles included in this volume have been chosen from a large database of publications in second language writing. The editors looked for works that mirrored the state of the art when they were published and made a conscious effort to represent a wide variety of perspectives, contributions, and issues in the field. To provide a sense of the evolution of the field, this collection is arranged in chronological order.

Author : Tony J. Silva,Paul Kei Matsuda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1336112333

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Landmark Essays on ESL Writing by Tony J. Silva,Paul Kei Matsuda Pdf

Author : Christina Murphy,Joe Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136692529

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Landmark Essays on Writing Centers by Christina Murphy,Joe Law Pdf

This collection introduces the reader to the ideas that have shaped writing center theory and practice. The essays have been selected not only for the insight they offer into issues but also for their contributions to writing center scholarship. These papers help to chart the legitimation of writing centers by providing both a history and an examination of the philosophies, praxis, and politics that have defined this emerging field. They demonstrate the ways a clearer profile of the discipline has emerged from the research and reflection of writers, like those represented here. This volume charts the emergence of writing centers and the growing recognition of their contributions, roles, and importance. As a nascent discipline, writing centers reflect the concerns with marginality and with finding a respected place in the academy that characterize any new field of academic inquiry, practice, and research. Concomitantly, professionals in these fields seek standing within the academy and a way of defining and validating their contributions to the educational process. Contemporary writing center theorists look to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary investigations to interpret the work they do and to clarify their aims to the academy at large. Their work employs a variety of philosophical perspectives -- ranging from sociolinguistics to psychoanalytic theory -- to show the complex nature and potential of writing center interactions. The idea has now become the multidimensional realities of the writing center within the academy and within society as a whole. What its role will be in future redefinitions of the educational process, how that role will be negotiated and evaluated, and how professionals will shape educational values will constitute the future landmark directions and essays on writing center theory and practice.

Author : Sondra Perl
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1880393131

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Landmark Essays on Writing Process by Sondra Perl Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Charles Bazerman,David Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000106855

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Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum by Charles Bazerman,David Russell Pdf

Rhetoric, as a general teaching -- while preaching locality of action and guidelines for handling that locality -- has tended from the beginning to serve as a universality. It has offered a generalized techne with only limited categories, appropriate for all discursive situations, at least for those that were not excluded from the realm of rhetoric. Nonetheless, from its beginnings, rhetoric limited its interests to certain activity fields such as law, government, religion, and most important, the educators of leaders in these activity fields. This collection presents landmarks showing where the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) movements have gone. They have opened up a number of prospects that were impossible to see when rhetoric and composition confined their gaze to relatively few discursive activities. This suggests that the rhetorical landscape is becoming more complex and interesting, as well as more responsive to life in the complex, differentiated societies that have emerged in the last few centuries. This volume will reveal to scholars and researchers a range of possibilities for the study of disciplinary discourse and its teaching, and suggest to them new prospects for the future -- and for the better.

Author : Mark Roberge,Meryl Siegal,Linda Harklau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135591304

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Generation 1.5 in College Composition by Mark Roberge,Meryl Siegal,Linda Harklau Pdf

'... A well-organized volume with a strong emphasis on pedagogy.' – Trudy Smoke, Hunter College/City University of New York, USA 'Generation 1.5 is the most interesting topic of concern in ESL today, yet publications are few and far between.... The editors clearly know what they’re doing.... They know the field, know the subject matter, and understand the problems.... This volume contributes to the thinking in the field.' – Linda Lonon Blanton, University of New Orleans, USA Building on the work that has been done over the past decade, this volume provides theoretical frameworks for understanding debates about immigrant students, studies of students’ schooling paths and language and literacy experiences, and pedagogical approaches for working with Generation 1.5 students. Generation 1.5 in College Composition: is designed to help both scholars and practitioners reconceptualize the fields of College Composition and TESOL and create a space for research, theory, and pedagogy focusing on postsecondary immigrant ESL students provides both important new theoretical work (which lays the underpinnings for serious pedagogical innovation) and important new pedagogical approaches. Because of their varied and complex language and literacy profiles, Generation 1.5 students are found in developmental English courses, college ESL courses, and mainstream college writing courses. This volume is directed to preservice and inservice teachers, teacher educators, and researchers involved with educating Generation 1.5 students in these and other contexts.

Author : Tony Silva,Paul Kei Matsuda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135660673

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On Second Language Writing by Tony Silva,Paul Kei Matsuda Pdf

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).

Author : Irene L. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136657931

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Concepts in Composition by Irene L. Clark Pdf

A textbook for composition pedagogy courses. It focuses on scholarship in rhetoric and composition that has influenced classroom teaching, in order to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice.

Author : Terry Myers Zawacki,Michelle Cox
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781602355064

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WAC and Second Language Writers by Terry Myers Zawacki,Michelle Cox Pdf

Editors and contributors pursue the ambitious goal of including within WAC theory, research, and practice the differing perspectives, educational experiences, and voices of second-language writers. The chapters within this collection not only report new research but also share a wealth of pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic practices relevant to second-language writers. Representing a range of institutional perspectives—including those of students and faculty at public universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and English-language schools—and a diverse set of geographical and cultural contexts, the editors and contributors report on work taking place in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Author : Christine Pears Casanave,Stephanie Vandrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135633943

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Writing for Scholarly Publication by Christine Pears Casanave,Stephanie Vandrick Pdf

This collection of first-person essays by established authors provides a wealth of support and insights for new and experienced academic writers in language education and multicultural studies. Although writing for publication is becoming increasingly important as these fields become both more professional and more competitive, few scholars talk candidly about their experiences negotiating a piece of writing into print. These essays will help researchers, practitioners, and graduate students expand their understanding of what it means--professionally and personally--to write for publication. Carefully crafted, focused, and provocative, the chapters in this volume document authors' experiences with a range of practical, political, and personal issues in writing for publication. Many portray the hardship and struggle that are not obvious in a finished piece of writing. Readers are encouraged to resonate with the events and issues portrayed, and to connect the narratives to their own lives. Practical information, such as contact information for journal and book publishers, manuscript guidelines, and useful books are included in appendices. Although organized thematically, the essays in Writing for Scholarly Publication: Behind the Scenes in Language Education overlap in many ways as each author considers multiple issues: *In the Introduction, the editors discuss key aspects of writing for scholarly publication, such as writing as situated practice, issues faced by newcomers, the construction of personal identity through writing, writing and transparency, facets of the interactive nature of scholarly writing, and intertwined political issues. *Part I focuses on issues and concerns faced by "Newcomers." *In Part II, "Negotiating and Interacting," the essays closely examine the interactions among authors, editors, manuscript reviewers, and collaborators; these interactions tend to be the least often discussed and these essays therefore offer readers fascinating insights into the sensitive social, political, and personal relationships among the many players in the scholarly writing game. *"Identity Construction" is addressed in Part III, where authors share their experiences with and reflections on the ways that professional writing helps them construct their identities as writers and scholars. *The essays in Part IV, "From the Periphery," help redefine what the notion of "periphery" might mean, from a concept with a negative connotation of "outsider" to a positive connotation of active and unconventional participant.

Author : Greg Giberson,Megan Schoen,Christian Weisser
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646422173

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Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing by Greg Giberson,Megan Schoen,Christian Weisser Pdf

Until now there has been little consideration of the intellectual and historical impact editors have had on the young and ever-evolving field of writing studies. Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing provides new and seasoned scholars with behind-the-scenes explorations and expositions of the history of scholarly editing and the role of the scholarly editor from the perspectives of current and former editors from important publications within the field. Each chapter in the collection examines the unique experiences and individual contributions of its authors during their time as editors, offering advice to scholars and potential editors on how to navigate the publication process and understand editorial roles. The contributors provide multiple perspectives on the growth, transformation, and, in some cases, founding of some of the most influential publishing venues in writing studies. The personal and historical narratives, along with the unique perspectives and insightful analyses of the individual authors in Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing, offer needed transparency and context to what has historically been an opaque, yet inevitable and consequential, part of academic life. This volume will help researchers in the field understand the publishing process. Contributors: Cheryl Ball, David Bartholomae, Charles Bazerman, Jean Ferguson Carr, Douglas Eyman, Muriel Harris, Byron Hawk, Alice Horning, Paul Kei Matsuda, Laura Micciche, Mike Palmquist, Michael Pemberton, Malea Powell, Kelly Ritter, Victor Villanueva, Victor Vitanza, Kathleen Blake Yancey

Author : Alice Horning,Anne Becker
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781643170060

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Revision by Alice Horning,Anne Becker Pdf

Explores the wide range of scholarship on revision while bringing new light to bear on enduring questions in composition and rhetoric.

Author : Weronika Szubko-Sitarek,Łukasz Salski,Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319004198

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Language Learning, Discourse and Communication by Weronika Szubko-Sitarek,Łukasz Salski,Piotr Stalmaszczyk Pdf

This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor of Professor Jan Majer have been grouped in two sections: language learning, and discourse and communication. The former discusses issues varying from aspects of first, second, and third language acquisition, individual learner differences (i.e. gender, attitudes, learning strategies), and second language research methodology to the analysis of features of learner spoken language, the role of feedback in foreign language instruction, and the position of culture in EFL textbooks. The second part of the volume offers a theoretical counterbalance to the applied nature of the first one. Here, the contributions touch upon spoken and written language analysis, language awareness, and aspects of the English language; also, selected issues of language philosophy are discussed. The wide range of topics covered in the publication, authored by specialists in their respective areas, reflects Professor Majer’s academic interests and corresponds to the complex nature of the general field the volume aims to portray.

Author : Le-Ha Phan,Bradley Baurain
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780857247209

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Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures by Le-Ha Phan,Bradley Baurain Pdf

Provides insights into the process of knowledge construction in EFL/ESL writing - from classrooms to research sites, from the dilemmas and risks NNEST student writers experience in the pursuit of true agency to the confusions and conflicts academics experience in their own writing practices.

Author : Kathryn L. Kleypas,James I. McDougall
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739150207

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The American-style University at Large by Kathryn L. Kleypas,James I. McDougall Pdf

The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The contributors examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world and explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.