Teaching writing as a second language
Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning's new comprehensive theory about basic writers. Horning explores the theory of writing acquisition in detail. Her examination of spoken and written language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a separate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features. She proposes that basic writers learn to write as other learners master a sec…
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- Full title :Teaching writing as a second language / Alice S. Horning ; with a foreword by W. Ross Winterowd.
Summary
Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning's new comprehensive theory about basic writers. Horning explores the theory of writing acquisition in detail. Her examination of spoken and written language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a separate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features. She proposes that basic writers learn to write as other learners master a second language because for them, academic written English is a whole new language. She explores the.
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- Publication Date:©1987.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Southern Illinois University Press
- Place of Publication:Carbondale
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1987.
Notes
"Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 88 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0809390833, 9780809390830
- oclc:ocn565226326
- LC Classification:PE1404
- Dewey Decimal:808/.042/07
Table of Contents
Cover; Studies in Writing & Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Toward a Theory of Writing Acquisition; 2. Spoken versus Written Language: A Distinction; 3. The Role of Redundancy in the Acquisition of Written and Spoken Language; 4. Error Analysis: The Interlanguage Hypothesis Applied to Basic Writing; 5. ""Good"" Errors: A Case Study in Basic Writing; 6. Affective Factors: Pidginization in Basic Writing; 7. Monitor Theory; 8. Conclusion; Works Cited; Author Biography; Back Cover.
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