Second language writing: Research insights for the classroom

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This comprehensive collection of thirteen original articles covers the major issues writing teachers face. It systematically sets out the key issues in second language writing instruction to offer both pre-service and in-service teachers a guide to writing instruction grounded in current theory and research. The book includes chapters on approaches to teaching writing, needs analysis, syllabus design, lesson planning, task design, materials development, and feedback and assessment, and on using technology in writing classes and in conducting research. There are review exercises, reflection questions, and copious examples to make the book extremely useful to prospective and practicing teachers alike.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series editors' preface
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I Philosophical Underpinnings of Second Language Writing Instruction
• 1 Second language composition instruction: developments, issues, and directions in ESL
• 2 L1 composition theories: implications for developing theories of L2 composition
• 3 An overview of second language writing process research
• 4 Coaching from the margins: issues in written response
• 5 Second language writing: assessment issues
• 6 Reading-writing connections: towards a description for second language learners
• Part II Considerations for Writing Instruction
• 7 Composing in English: effects of a first language on writing in English as a second language
• 8 The teaching of topical structure analysis as a revision strategy for ESL writers
• 9 What does time buy? ESL student performance on home bersus class compositions
• 10 Feedback on compositions: teacher and student verbal reports
• 11 Teacher response to student writing: focus on form versus content
• 12 Responding to different topic types: a quantitative analysis from a contrastive rhetoric perspective
• 13 Writing with others' words: using background reading text in academic compositions
• Index