On Second Language Writing

by Silva; Tony

• ISBN13: 9780805835151
• ISBN10: 0805835156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

On Second Language Writingbrings together internationally recognized scholars in a collection of original articles that, collectively, delineate and explore central issues with regard to theory, research, instruction, assessment, politics, articulation with other disciplines, and standards. In recent years, there has been a dramatic growth of interest in second-language writing and writing instruction in many parts of the world. Although an increasing number of researchers and teachers in both second-language studies and composition studies have come to identify themselves as specialists in second-language writing, research and teaching practices have been dispersed into several different disciplinary and institutional contexts because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field. This volume is the first to bring together prominent second-language writing specialists to systematically address basic issues in the field and to consider the state of the art at the end of the century (and the millennium).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Contributors	xvii
Editors	xxi
The Composition of a Life in Composition	1	(16)
Barbara Kroll
Hearing Voices: L2 Students' Experiences in L2 Writing Courses	17	(12)
Ilona Leki
On the Question of Power and Control	29	(10)
Pat Currie
Notes Toward a Theory of Second Language Writing	39	(20)
William Grabe
Does Second Language Writing Theory Have Gender?	59	(14)
Diane Belcher
For Kyla: What Does the Research Say About Responding to ESL Writers	73	(18)
Lynn Goldstein
Research Methodology in Second Language Writing Research: The Case of Text-Based Studies	91	(26)
Charlene Polio
Fourth Generation Writing Assessment	117	(12)
Liz Hamp-Lyons
Instructional Strategies for Making ESL Students Integral to the University	129	(14)
Trudy Smoke
Advanced EAP Writing and Curriculum Design: What Do We Need to Know?	143	(18)
Joy Reid
Critical Pragmatism: A Politics of L2 Composition	161	(12)
Sarah Benesch
The Place of Politics in Second Language Writing	173	(18)
Terry Santos
Second Language Writing and Second Language Acquisition	191	(10)
Joan Carson
Dangerous Liaisons: Problems of Representation and Articulation	201	(8)
Carol Severino
The Difficulty of Standards, For Example in L2 Writing	209	(22)
Alister Cumming
Author Index	231	(8)
Subject Index	239