Writing at the doctoral level presents many challenges for second language writers. This paper reports on a longitudinal study investigating English as a second language (ESL) doctoral students' writing problems and the strategies they developed to meet these challenges. Eight students were interviewed four times over a two-year period during…

The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part I identify and expand in novel ways the diverse…

Third and fourth graders' talk during collaborative writing assignments with teachers and peers was transcribed and coded. Found that the students devoted a significant amount of peer and teacher interaction to the subject of spelling, and that the amount of talk about spelling did not vary with the spelling ability of the students. (MDM)