Landmark Essays on ESL Writing: Volume 17

by Silva,Tony; Silva,Tony

• ISBN13: 9781880393185
• ISBN10: 1880393182
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Paul Kei Matsuda
Tony Silva
Essays
Structural Linguistics and Systematic Composition Teaching to Students of English as a Foreign Language. (1962)	1	(10)
Anita Pincas
Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-Cultural Education. (1966)	11	(16)
Robert B. Kaplan
Teaching Composition in the ESL Classroom: What We Can Learn from Research in the Teaching of English. (1976)	27	(10)
Vivian Zamel
What Unskilled ESL Students Do as They Write: A Classroom Study of Composing (1985)	37	(26)
Ann Raimes
Reader-Writer Responsibility: A New Typology. (1987)	63	(12)
John Hinds
Research Frontiers in Writing Analysis. (1988)	75	(16)
Ulla Connor
Initiating ESL Students into the Academic Discourse Community: How Far Should We Go? (1988)	91	(18)
Ruth Spack
Fiction and Nonfiction in the ESL/EFL Classroom: Does the Difference Make a Difference? (1990)	109	(8)
Daniel Horowitz
Interpreting an English Competency Examination: The Frustrations of an ESL Science Student. (1991)	117	(20)
Ann M. Johns
Becoming Biliterate: First Language Influences. (1992)	137	(22)
Joan G. Carson
Ideology in Composition: L1 and ESL. (1992)	159	(14)
Terry Santos
Reciprocal Themes in ESL Reading and Writing. (1993)	173	(18)
Ilona Leki
Toward an Understanding of the Distinct Nature of L2 Writing: The ESL Research and Its Implications. (1993)	191	(18)
Tony Silva
Responding to ESL Students' Texts: The Myths of Appropriation. (1994)	209	(16)
Joy Reid
Issues in ESL Writing Assessment: An Overview. (1996)	225	(16)
Liz Hamp-Lyons
Barbara Kroll
Contrastive Rhetoric in Context: A Dynamic Model of L2 Writing. (1997)	241	(16)
Paul Kei Matsuda
Indexes	257