Hinkel, Eli,

Teaching academic ESL writing : practical techniques in vocabulary and grammar / Eli Hinkel. - xii, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index.

Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing -- The Importance of Text in Written Academic Discourse: Ongoing Goals in Teaching ESL Skills -- Student Writing Tasks and Written Academic Genres -- Curriculum for Teaching the Language Features of Academic Writing -- Sentences and Their Parts: Lexis and Grammar -- Sentences, Phrases, and Text Construction -- Nouns and the Noun Phrase -- More on the Noun Phrase: Pronouns -- Teaching Verb Tenses and Voice in Text Cohesion -- Lexical Classes of Verbs: Meanings and Text Functions -- Adjectives and Adverbs in Academic Discourse -- Text and Discourse Flow: The Sentence and Beyond -- Background Discourse and Information: Subordinate Clauses -- Rhetorical Features of Text: Cohesion and Coherence -- Hedging in Academic Text in English. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. III. 10. 11. 12.

"The book is designed as a text for courses that prepare teachers to work with post-secondary EAP students, and as a professional resource for teachers of students in EAP courses."--BOOK JACKET.

0805838899 9780805838893 0805838902 9780805838909

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English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Academic writing--Study and teaching

PE1404 / .H57 2004

808.042071