| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Language learning and language teaching, 1569-9471 ; v. 15 |
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Language learning and language teaching ; v. 15.
1569-9471
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
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| Subject |
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Canada.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Canada.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Research.
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English language -- Written English.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00795104
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
(OCoLC)fst00911595
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
(OCoLC)fst00911602
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Research.
(OCoLC)fst00911707
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English language -- Written English.
(OCoLC)fst00911976
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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Tweedetaalverwerving.
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Wetenschappelijke teksten.
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Schrijfvaardigheid.
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Engels.
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| Added Author |
Cumming, Alister H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goals for academic writing. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006 (DLC) 2006047724 |
| ISBN |
9789027293312 (electronic bk.) |
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9027293317 (electronic bk.) |
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