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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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Auteur principal: Horning, Alice
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (104 pages).
ISBN:9780809390830