481 WRITING IN EFL
Units: 2
Pre-requisite: 260 / Level

This course addressed basic issues in second language writing theory, research, and practice. Topics include the historical context of second language writing, characteristics of ESL writers, ESL writers' composing processes, rhetorical and linguistic features of ESL writers' texts, assessment of ESL writing; comparison of ESL and first language writing. Implications of these issues for ESL writing pedagogy are examined.
Textbook:
(A package of selected articles dealing with these issues.)
Supplemental References:
Grabe, William and Robert B. Kaplan. Theory and Practice of Writing: An Applied Linguistic Perpsective.
Candlin, Christopher N. and Ken Hyland (eds.). Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices.

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