Goals for academic writing ESL students and their instructors

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.

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ISBN: 9027219710 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027219699 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027219710 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027219718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027219699 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027219695 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027293317 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027293312 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 204 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-188) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction, purpose, and conceptual foundations / Alister Cumming -- Context and design of the research / Alister Cumming -- Students' goals for ESl and university courses / Ally Zhou ... [et al.] -- 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.
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Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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