Teaching Second Language Writing
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
28 pages
978-1-138-50167-6 (ISBN)
Description
This module explores the purposes of and methods for teaching second language writing. Engaging and accessible, Teaching Second Language Writing is organized into three sections that mainly focus on activities, approaches, and real-life writing tasks and genres that are the most applicable and useful for the language teaching classroom.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
67 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-50167-6 (9781138501676)
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Person
Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University, USA.
Content
Chapter 1 Teaching Second Language Writing What is Writing adn What is Its Prupose in the Language Classroom? How Can Writing Help Students Learn a Second Language? The reasons for teaching writing: the role of writing in second language acquisition, writing activities and tasks that will help students learn language, collaborative writing, goals and activities related to real-life writing tasks, scaffolding the writing process, options for giving feedback, assessing writing, Sample Assignments.