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Todorovska, Viktorija – 1996
Stretch 107 is a version of English 107 (a first-year composition course for international students at Arizona State University), designed to provide those with low proficiency in English with various strategies for writing acceptable prose in English. Since it is a 2-semester course, Stretch 107 gives students more time to work on their…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Strauss, Susan; Xiang, Xuehua – Written Communication, 2006
This article examines writing conference discourse in one English as a Second Language (ESL) basic composition course. The study is based on a 25,000-word corpus of 10 writing conference interactions between the instructor and seven students. Through a microlevel analysis, the authors demonstrate how and to what degree the writing conference can…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Metacognition, English (Second Language)