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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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Détails bibliographiques
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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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.