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Author Ferris, Dana.

Title Treatment of error in second language student writing / Dana R. Ferris
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2002]
©2002

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 MELB  428.24071 Fer/Toe  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 152 pages ; 23 cm
Series Michigan series on teaching multilingual writers
Michigan series on teaching multilingual writers.
Contents Series Foreword / Diane Belcher and Jun Liu -- 1. Why Is Error Treatment Necessary for L2 Writers? -- 2. Perspectives on Error Correction in L2 Writing -- 3. Preparing L2 Writing Teachers to Treat Student Error -- 4. Responding to Student Errors: Issues and Strategies -- 5. Beyond Error Correction: Teaching Grammar and Self-Editing Strategies to L2 Student Writers
Summary "Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing is the book many writing teachers have long been looking for: a highly accessible and principled approach to both the theory and practice of error treatment that can guide pedagogical decision making. Unlike a teacher's manual or a handbook that purports to give all the answers needed, Ferris's research-based volume offers a solid scholarly foundation for the practical ideas presented together with an abundance of illustrative sample texts. This book will be a rich resource in language teaching methodology courses, but experienced teachers, too, will no doubt benefit from the depth and breadth of Ferris's coverage of various error response techniques as well as of the research that motivates those techniques."
"Ferris offers a realistic, well-reasoned account of what L2 writing teachers - or any teacher with L2 students in class - need to know about error and how to put what they know to use. She persuasively addresses the fundamental error treatment questions that plague novice and expert writing specialists alike: What types of errors should teachers respond to? When should we respond to them? What are the most efficacious ways of responding to them? And ultimately, what role should error treatment play in the teaching of the process of writing?"--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Teaching of specific subjects English language
Error correction
Notes Cataloging-on-the-fly
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152)
Subject Report writing -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Errors of usage.
Second language acquisition.
LC no. 2001006442
ISBN 0472088165 cloth acid-free paper