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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 he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horning, Alice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Colección:Studies in writing & rhetoric.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (105 pages)
ISBN:9780809390830
0809390833