Second language writing : research insights for the classroom /

Second language writing : research insights for the classroom / edited by Barbara Kroll. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1990. - ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Second language composition instruction : developments, issues, and directions in ESL L1 composition theories : implications for developing theories of L2 composition An overview of second language writing process research Coaching from the margins : issues in written response Second language writing : assessment issues Reading-writing connections : toward a description for second language learners Composing in English : effects of a first language on writing in English as a second language The teaching of topical structure analysis as a revision strategy for ESL writers Tony Silva -- Ann M. Johns -- Alexandra Rowe Krapels -- Ilona Leki -- Liz Hamp-Lyons -- Joan Carson Eisterhold -- Alexander Friedlander -- Ulla Connor and Mary Farmer. What does time buy? : ESL student performance on home versus class compositions Feedback on compositions : teacher and student verbal reports Teacher response to student writing : focus on form versus content Responding to different topic types : a quantitative analysis from a contrastive rhetoric perspective Writing with others' words : using background reading text in academic compositions Barbara Kroll -- Andrew D. Cohen and Marilda C. Cavalcanti -- Ann K. Fathman and Elizabeth Whalley -- Joy Reid -- Cherry Campbell.

This text is a highly accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English.



90031067

GB90-21406


English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.

PE1128 / .S436 1990 PE1128