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Goals for academic writing : ESL students and their instructors /

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 presen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cumming, Alister H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006.
Colección:Language learning and language teaching ; v. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.