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Rodby, Judith – Writing Instructor, 1990
Argues that the notion of writing as the expression of a fixed and unified individual identity is inappropriate for the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) student. Suggests that composition teachers recognize that writing in English engages the nonnative speaker in a dialectic of identity and difference and promote this difference rather than…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)