Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 104 ISBN: 9783838303291
Описание
In writing classrooms, writing topics are frequently discussed prior to writing essays. This is common practice in both native speaker and non-native speaker English Composition and ESL writing classes, particularly in college. Being so widely used, such a teaching practice needs to be examined from a research prospective in order to establish whether, and to what extent, it aids the writing process. Addutionally, the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) field needs to establish whether, and to what extent, such classroom practice aids the SLA process. This book discusses the issues in SLA and the teaching and learning of writing: SLA Theories, Interaction and Input Hypotheses, Literacy and Writing, and Theories of Composition. This book also reports the findings of a small scale study that employed both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. The work in this area is important for future development of SLA theory and practice beacuse SLA...
