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Undergraduates in a Second Language - Challenges and Complexities of Academic Literacy Development (Hardcover)
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This is the first book-length study of bilingual, international,
and immigrant college students that attempts to fully embed their
academic writing experiences within the broader frame of their
personal histories, the human context of their development, and the
disciplinary contexts of their majors. It addresses the questions:
How useful are these courses for the students who are required to
take them? What do the students carry with them from these courses
to their other disciplinary courses across the curriculum? What
happens to these students after they leave ESL, English, or writing
classes?
Drawing on data from a 5- year longitudinal study of four
university students for whom English was not their
strongest/primary language, it captures their literacy experiences
throughout their undergraduate careers. The intensive case studies
answer some questions and raise others about these students'
academic development as it entwined with their social experiences
and identity formation andwith the ideological context of studying
at a U.S. university in the 1990s.
This study is revealing for teachers of writing to native English
speakers and for those who teach ESL, bilingual, international,
immigrant, L2, or non-native English speaking (NNES) students. This
long list of qualifiers hints at the complexities inherent in the
latter group of students' status in English-dominant countries like
the U.S. and the difficulty of finding appropriate, adequate, and
non-limiting ways to refer to them as a group beyond their status
in political terms or the stage of their English language
proficiency. In fact the findings of this study highlight its
suggestion that grouping itself is a problem.
This is a must-read volume for present and future writing teachers,
compositionists, writing researchers, and second language studies
professionals.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2007 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
Ilona Leki
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8058-5637-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Higher & further education >
General
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LSN: |
0-8058-5637-4 |
Barcode: |
9780805856378 |
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