This book contains 11 essays that describe approaches to innovating the teaching of English writing to Chinese speakers. Language education and English specialists from Asia and the UK discuss the similarities and differences in teaching English writing in different Chinese-speaking regions; integrating e-learning into process writing, using the case of a primary school in Hong Kong; perceptions of strategy-based training and its influence on peer review stances among Hong Kong secondary students; improving English as a foreign language learners' writing using a minimal grammar approach to teach independent clauses, using the example of Macao secondary school students; and writing skills development from the perspective of English as a lingua franca, with discussion of insights from secondary and tertiary English language education in Taiwan. Others address the metacognitive knowledge development of low-proficiency Hong Kong English as a foreign language university students in a process-oriented writing course; metacognitive strategy-focused instruction in a writing across the curriculum program in a Hong Kong university and its impact on writing performance; the impact of testing on teaching and learning second language English writing in Hong Kong higher education; preparing Chinese novice writers for academia using an integrated genre-based approach for writing research articles; a cross-disciplinary graduate writing course in Taiwan that uses activity theory in English for research publication purposes practices; and current innovative English writing classroom practices. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Informed by theory, research, and classroom practice, the volume provides a systematic overview of critical L2 writing issues. Additionally, with the aim to support instruction across all levels of education for Chinese speakers, this book introduces pre-service and in-service teachers to new teaching ideas, techniques, and practice.
The series Trends in Applied Linguistics meets the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. In a very broad sense, applied linguistics is understood by focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics, the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives.
The following topics are included in the series:
- Second language acquisition and the acquisition of additional languages
- Bilingual and multilingual education
- Language planning and language policy
- Literacy skills
- Second/foreign language pedagogy
- Translation and interpretation
- Language for specific purposes
- Discourse analysis
- Language testing and assessment
- Child language
- Language and gender
- Pragmatics and rhetorics
- Corpus analysis
- Critical pedagogies
- Research methodology in applied linguistics
- Language and technology
The series Trends in Applied Linguistics aims to meet the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. Applied linguistics is understood in a broad sense, by focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives.
