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WPA / CompPile Research Bibliographies - 2 views

  • Stretch Courses
  • Second Language Writing and Writing Program Administration
  • WAC-WID and Second Language Writers
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  • Writing-About-Writing Curricula: Origins, Theories, and Initial Field-Tests
  • Directed Self-Placement
  • Global Englishes and Language Difference
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Cox.pdf - Google Drive - 3 views

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    Ugh. I can't annotate the PDFs. Janopoulos might have some useful info on writing proficiency exams, but from 1995. Ann M. Johns (2001) has some best practices opinions for international comp and (1991) for English competency exams. Matsuda and Jablonski (n.d.)--seems to contradict what I said about the difference in L1 and L2 learning needs being only a difference of degree. Wolfe-Quintero and Segade, "University Support for Second-Language Writers Across the Curriculum" (1999)--looks promising. Angelova & Riazantseva (1999)--case studies of international students learning the conventions of academic writing in the US. Zawacki & Habib (2010) "'Will Our Stories Help Teachers Understand?' Multilingual Students Talk about identity, academic writing, and expectations across academic communities."  As a side note: working with these kinds of sources could make an interesting WAW theme for a Comp II-international section. 
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Working With International Student Writers | University of Denver - 0 views

  • Fluency generally takes 5-10 years to develop.
  • First, a majority of international students will not produce error-free prose.
  • But focusing only on surface features may miss strengths—and weaknesses—in the other two dimensions, and that would be a mistake.
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  • Third, as a consequence, read charitably.
  • Short, directed feedback, perhaps with editing just a page or so (and not the whole paper) can be even more valuable because it focuses students' attention. You can find some tips to responding to student writing in Writing Beyond Writing Classes: Resources for University of Denver Faculty, especially pages 18-34, also available in print from the Writing Program.
  • Having a terminology can be efficient in looking things up in reference books (such as The Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers, of which I'm a co-author and wrote a 100-page section for second language learners, by the way) or in solidifying an emerging structure.
  • Is this "fair" to native writers? We can debate the ins and outs. But this approach strikes me as pragmatic, ethical, and realistic. If we want to insist that an A is ever and always an A, for all students, then we probably should just massively ramp our admissions criteria and screening for international students, dropping the number admitted to 1 or 2% of the student body perhaps. However, I think there would be enormous costs of doing so, and I don't simply mean the loss of tuition income.
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Kam and Meinema, Context - 1 views

  • Culturally Coined
  • Büker (2003, 46-48)
  • actual and assumed differences
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  • processes and products
  • content knowledge
  • Biggs notes that research results indicate that the difficulties perceived by international students differ in extent from problems perceived by local students, and not in kind.
  • The ETOC, the Expert Centre on Language, Communication and Education
  • Developing additional (didactic) course elements (e.g. developing writing assignments). Making teaching aids (handouts, good practices, assignments) available (by means of an online writing center). Developing policies concerning the teaching of communicative skills, aimed at imbedding teaching communicative skills into curricula (Van Kruiningen, 2004).
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    This one looks most relevant to our goals out of the ones in this journal issue.
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Taking Hold of Global Englishes: Intensive English Programs as Brokers of Transnational... - 1 views

  • how literacy is taught and learned transnationally. Specifically, I examine how the transnational political economy of English literacy is negotiated discursively at one US-based IEP (Northwest IEP) through teacher and student talk. From this discourse analysis, I suggest that, in addition to the difficult and time-consuming tasks of language learning, students in my study were involved in and recipients of another, much less visible type of literacy management: the ongoing valuing and defining of each other’s prior literacy-related knowledge vis-à-vis their and other students’ access to global Englishes. Thus, Northwest IEP did more than situate students in relation to privileged English literacy. That institution also served as a broker for the shifting status and subsequent privileging of global Englishes. This dynamic gives insight into how multilingual spaces come to mediate the broader transnational political economy of English literacy. Ultimately, this research shows the value of looking into institutes at the periphery of US higher education, which broadens the field’s linguistic terrain to situate US-based composition as one of many actors across the transnational landscape of higher education.   
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