Exploring the dynamics of second language writing / edited by Barbara Kroll. - xvi, 342 p. - The Cambridge applied linguistics series . - Cambridge applied linguistics series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Teaching the next generation of second language writers / Second language writing in the twentieth century: A situated historical perspective / Research on second language writing: An overview of what we investigate and how / Experienced ESL/EFL writing instructors' conceptualizations of their teaching: Curriculum options and implications / Second language writing up close and personal: Some success stories / Responding to writing / Grammar and the ESL writing class / Writing teachers as assessors of writing / Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction / Changing currents in contrastive rhetoric: Implications for teaching and research / Reading and writing relations: Second language perspectives on research and practice / Literature in the teaching of second language composition / The impact of the computer in second language writing / A challenge to second language writing professionals: Is writing overrated? / Barbara Kroll -- Paul Kei Matsuda -- Charlene Polio -- Alister Cumming -- Tony Silva, Melinda Reichelt, Yoshiki Chikuma, Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Ruo-Ping J. Mo, Gloria Velez-Rendon and Sandra Wood -- Dana Ferris -- Jan Frodesen and Christine Holten -- Liz Hamp-Lyons -- Ann M. Johns -- Ulla Connor -- William Grabe -- Stephanie Vandrick -- Martha C. Pennington -- Ilona Leki. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13.

Addresses issues in the field of second language writing in academic contexts.

0521822920 0521529832 (pbk.)

2002074049


Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Composition (Language arts)
Rhetoric--Study and teaching

P53.27 / .E97 2003

808.0071