Title Goals for academic writing : ESL students and their instructors / edited by Alister Cumming

Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations Series Language learning and language teaching, 1569-9471 ; v. 15 Language learning and language teaching ; v. 15. 1569-9471 Contents Introduction, purpose, and conceptual foundations / Alister Cumming -- Context and design of the research / Alister Cumming -- Students' goals for ESl and university courses / Ally Zhou [and others] -- A study of contrasts : ESL and university instructors' goals for writing improvement / Jill Cummings, Usman Erdösy, and Alister Cumming -- Nine Chinese students writing in Canadian university courses / Luxin Yang -- Students' and instructors' assessments of the attainment of writing goals / Khaled Barkaoui and Jia Fei -- The language of intentions for writing improvement : a systemic functional linguistic analysis / Michael Busch -- Goals, motivations, and identities of three students writing in English / Tae-Young Kim, Kyoko Baba, and Alister Cumming -- Variations in goals and activities for multilingual writing / Guillaume Gentil -- Implications of pedagogy, policy, and research / Alister Cumming Summary This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers present a detailed framework to describe these goals from the perspectives of the students as well as their instructors. The goals are analyzed for groups of students from particular backgrounds internationally, for changes over time, and in relation to the ESL and academic courses. The authors use activi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Canada English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Canada English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Research English language -- Written English. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. Academic writing -- Study and teaching English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Research English language -- Written English Tweedetaalverwerving. Wetenschappelijke teksten. Schrijfvaardigheid. Engels. Canada Form Electronic book Author Cumming, Alister H. LC no. 2006047724 ISBN 9789027293312 9027293317 9789027219695 9027219699 9789027219718 9027219710

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