Developing Writing Competence in L2 Chinese Classrooms

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This collection of pedagogically-relevant research reports will provide a much-needed resource for L2 Chinese writing specialists. Its chapters focus on important writing-related topics, including collaborative writing, writing for social media, strategy use, the writing of heritage-language learners, writing fluency, syntactic quality, and lexical accuracy. The volume is groundbreaking. * Melinda Reichelt, University of Toledo, USA * This impressive book contains eight empirical studies on the process and product of L2 Chinese writing competence development at different proficiency levels, in different pedagogical contexts, and with different learning backgrounds. The data-driven pedagogical recommendations from each study offer valuable insights for both L2 researchers and practitioners. * Chuanren Ke, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, USA * ...an excellent resource for both researchers and language educators. It offers a solid foundation of empirical knowledge and pedagogical recommendations to further the researching and teaching of writing in L2 Chinese classrooms. It is most likely to be beneficial for graduate students and scholars interested in conducting research in L2 Chinese writing. All the studies selected in the book followed a rigorous research process with a clear description of the research design, making it possible for future researchers to replicate the study in a different context. * Yan Wang, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Applied Language Learning, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2025 *