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National Council of Teachers of English, 2020
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) recognizes campuses around the world as fundamentally multilingual spaces, in which students and faculty bring to the acts of writing and communication a rich array of linguistic and cultural resources that enrich academic life and should be valued and supported. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Professional Associations, English (Second Language)
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Fung, Yong Mei; Mei, Hooi Chee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
When writing an argumentative essay, writers develop and evaluate arguments to embody, initiate, or simulate various kinds of interpersonal and textual interaction for reader consideration (Wu & Allison, 2003). This is quite challenging for English as a second language (ESL) learners. To improve the quality of their writing, students need to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Essays
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Crusan, Deborah – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
Evaluation is far from being a neutral process. In recent years, tests have commanded increasing influence, which in turn, has broad implications for both individuals and society (Crusan, 2010b). One purpose for testing--writing placement or "where to put students" (Yancey, 1999, p. 485)--has presented particular challenges, especially in writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Universities, Writing Evaluation