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The first volume of the serial is dedicated to writing, merely for the reason that writing can still be considered in language education to be a skill to which little attention is paid, where as discourses on listening, reading, and especially speaking experienced major advances over the last two decades. With the intention to question this rather international tendency from as many as possible different perspectives, this book unifies articles from Switzerland and Italy, Denmark, Germany, and the US, dealing with French, Italian, German, and English as foreign or second languages in all levels of instruction. The aim of this first volume is mainly to encourage the understanding of an expanded function of writing in the field of language education, in theoretical terms and within the framework of classroom practice. Writing is understood here not only as a tool for recording knowledge but also as a means of developing it. Writing seen as such reaches beyond the realm of a foreign language, connecting the learner's expertise of his/her native language and culture with the ones to be studied. When we acknowledge language as a social phenomenon, the potential uses of writing for learning across the curriculum are revealed.
The first volume of the serial is dedicated to writing, merely for the reason that writing can still be considered in language education to be a skill to which little attention is paid, where as discourses on listening, reading, and especially speaking experienced major advances over the last two decades. With the intention to question this rather international tendency from as many as possible different perspectives, this book unifies articles from Switzerland and Italy, Denmark, Germany, and the US, dealing with French, Italian, German, and English as foreign or second languages in all levels of instruction. The aim of this first volume is mainly to encourage the understanding of an expanded function of writing in the field of language education, in theoretical terms and within the framework of classroom practice. Writing is understood here not only as a tool for recording knowledge but also as a means of developing it. Writing seen as such reaches beyond the realm of a foreign language, connecting the learner's expertise of his/her native language and culture with the ones to be studied. When we acknowledge language as a social phenomenon, the potential uses of writing for learning across the curriculum are revealed.
Encourages the understanding of an expanded function of writing in the field of language education, in theoretical terms and within the framework of classroom practice. little attention has been paid.
Introduction
Part I. History and Theories
Writing and Foreign Language Pedagogy: Theories and Implications
Torild Homstad and Helga Thorson
Product, Process, and the Writer Within: History of a Paradigm
Shift Gerd Bräuer
Part II: People
Creative Writing With Young Immigrants Rose Schrader
Dialogue Journals in the Adult ESL Classroom Karen Sanders
Automatic Writing in the Preparation of Immigrants for Work Markus
Schrader, III
Spaces. On the Interface of Writing and Speech Bob Weissberg
Internet Writing and Language Learning Inge Blatt
Using Computers to Teach Writing in the FL-Classroom Terri Nelson,
IV
Modes of Learning
Zen and the Art of Writing Ralf Saborrosch
Method Awareness and the Teaching of Writing Antonie Hornung
Quantity vs. Quality?
Using Extensive and Intensive Writing in the FL Classroom Torild
Homstad and Helga Thorson
The use of Workshops and Seminars in the ESL Classroom Lisbet Pals
Svendsen
Portfolio Learning Gerd Bräuer
Afterword
Expanding the Function of Writing in Foreign and Second Language
Education
GERD BRÄUER is Assistant Professor in the Department on German Studies at Emory University. His interests include German as a foreign/second language, theory and methology of foreign language teaching, and theory and methology of writing and theater.
.,."a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both
teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and
rhetoric."-Issues in Writing
?...a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both
teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and
rhetoric.?-Issues in Writing
?There is sufficient variety in the approaches of the different
authors to ensure that there is indeed something for all readers,
students, teachers, and researchers.?-The Modern Language
Journal
..."a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both
teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and
rhetoric."-Issues in Writing
"There is sufficient variety in the approaches of the different
authors to ensure that there is indeed something for all readers,
students, teachers, and researchers."-The Modern Language Journal
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