Drawing on surveys and interviews with college writing instructors and students at a public university in the United States, this mixed methods study revealed that in many cases instructors adopted translingual orientations, whereas students were committed to norms in their views of writing across differences. Students' orientations to language as…

Statements from the "Composition Opinionnaire" (NCTE, 1971) were grouped into four scales to measure teacher attitudes toward the importance of standard English, linguistic maturity, defining and evaluating writing tasks, and student self-expression in the instruction of written composition. (HOD)