Providing both theoretical context and practical resources for designing courses, negotiating differences among students, and responding to and assessing second-language writing, Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom addresses key issues for instructors working with multilingual writers in first-year composition.

Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook

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Cox, Michelle

Ortmeier-Hooper, Christina

Jordan, Jay

Matsuda, Paul Kei

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Bedford/St.Martin's

The ELL Writer: Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom (Language and Literacy Series)

This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum. The ELL Writer expands the current conversation on the literacy needs of adolescent English learners by focusing on their writing approaches, their texts, and their needs as student writers. Vivid portraits look at tangible moments within these students’ lives that depict not only the difficulties but also the possibilities that they bring with them into the classroom. The case studies are complemented by findings from current research studies by second-language writing specialists that will inform today’s classroom teachers. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Activities, writing prompts, and teaching tips to support ELL learning in mainstream classes. </li> <li> Personal stories and voices of ELL writers, along with examples of student writing. </li> <li> A focus on teacher responses, revision strategies, and assignment design. </li> <li> Clear connections among current research, student experiences, and the classroom.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Imagine being asked to write an essay in a language you don't know well or at all, to have to express yourself--your knowledge and analysis--grammatically and clearly in, say, three to five pages. How is your Spanish, your Urdu, your Hmong? This is what teachers ask their ELL and multilingual students to do every day in middle and high school, especially in English classes, leading to expectations both too great and too small. Teachers often resort to worksheets and grammar drills that don't produce good writing or allow these students to tap in to their first language assets and strengths. Writing well is a primary door-opener to success in secondary school, college, and the workplace; it's also the most difficult language skill to master. Add writing in a second language to the mix, and the task difficulty is magnified. In Writing across Culture and Language, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper challenges deficit models of ELL and multilingual writers and offers techniques to help teachers identify their students' strengths and develop inclusive research-based writing practices that are helpful to all students. Her approach, aligned with specific writing instruction recommendations outlined in the NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs), connects theory to classroom application, with a focus on writing instruction, response, and assessment for ELL and multilingual students. Through rich examples of these writers and their writing practices, along with "best practices" input from classroom teachers, this book provides accessible explanations of second language writing theory and pedagogy in teacher-friendly language, concrete suggestions for the classroom, guiding questions to support discussion, and an annotated list of resources. Principles in Practice imprint

Writing across Culture and Language: Inclusive Strategies for Working with ELL Writers in the ELA Classroom (Principles in Practice)

Words, Language & Grammar

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

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