Title: Introduction: Teaching the next generation of second language writers
Abstract: As a field of academic inquiry, the teaching of writing to second language (L2) learners sits at the junction of the discipline of composition and rhetoric (which concerns itself primarily with identifying the nature of texts and the processes that writers engage in to produce those texts) and the discipline of language learning (which concerns itself with cognitive and affective factors learners engage in as they move toward mastery of a particular linguistic code). No one teaching writing to this population of learners can responsibly serve his or her students without a clear recognition that these two fields intersect, especially at the postsecondary level. This volume is addressed to future L2 writing teachers; the authors of the chapters are steeped in traditions of inquiry central to composition and rhetoric and offer an applied linguistics perspective focused on adult learners.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-04-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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