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Author Saenkhum, Tanita, 1976- author.

Title Decisions, agency, and advising : key issues in the placement of multilingual writers into first-year composition courses / Tanita Saenkhum
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 153 pages) : colour illustrations
Contents Investigating multilingual writers' placement decisions -- Negotiating placement vs. accepting placement -- Why self-assessing is crucial for placement -- Planning on and questioning about placement (and other acts of agency) -- Academic advising and the placement of multilingual writers -- Writing teachers and the placement of multilingual writer -- Student agency and placement decisions : theoretical discussion and practical recommendations
Summary "Saenkhum considers the role of agency in the placement of multilingual writers--including international students and U.S. residents or citizens who are non-native users of English--in U.S. college composition programs. Grounded in qualitative research and concerned equally with theory and practice"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 18, 2016)
Subject Counseling in higher education.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Foreign speakers
Multilingual persons -- Education (Higher)
English language -- Rhetoric -- Evaluation
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Counseling in higher education
English language -- Rhetoric -- Evaluation
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Foreign speakers
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781607325482
1607325489