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Quinn, Janet M. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Contrastive rhetoric studies the writing of second language learners to understand how it is affected by their first language and culture. The field of contrastive rhetoric is as multidimensional as second language writing is complex. It draws on the work of contrastive analysis, anthropology, linguistics, pedagogy, culture studies, translation…
Descriptors: Anthropology, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Rhetoric
Goldburg, Maxine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Learner-centered methodology like peer review is problematic in the pluralism of the ESL classroom when teaching academic English composition. A distinct complication is the form writing instruction should take given the interaction and variations between ESL students' L1 background, experiences, schema, and the meaning of academic literacy in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Language Proficiency