Review: Landmark Essays on ESL Writing

Abstract

This volume provides a sense of how ESL writing scholarship has evolved over the last four decades. It brings together 15 articles that address various issues in second language writing in general and ESL writing in particular. The articles included in this volume have been chosen from a large database of publications in second language writing. The editors looked for works that mirrored the state of the art when they were published and made a conscious effort to represent a wide variety of perspectives, contributions, and issues in the field. --From publisher's description. Structural linguistics and systematic composition teaching to students of English as a foreign language (1962) / Anita Pincas -- Cultural thought patterns in inter-cultural education (1966) / Robert B. Kaplan -- Teaching composition in the ESL classroom : what we can learn from research in the teaching of English (1976) / Vivian Zamel -- What unskilled ESL students do as they write : a classroom study of composing (1985) / Ann Raimes -- Reader-writer responsibility : a new typology (1987) / John Hinds -- Research frontiers in writing analysis (1988) / Ulla Connor -- Initiating ESL students into the academic discourse community : how far should we go? (1988) / Ruth Spack -- Fiction and nonfiction in the ESL/EFL classroom : does the difference make a difference? (1990) / Daniel Horowitz -- Interpreting an English competency examination : the frustrations of an ESL science student (1991) / Ann M. Johns -- Becoming biliterate : first language influences (1992) / Joan G. Carson -- Ideology in composition : L1 and ESL (1992) / Terry Santos -- Reciprocal themes in ESL reading and writing (1993) / Ilona Leki -- Toward an understanding of the distinct nature of L2 writing : the ESL research and its implications (1993) / Tony Silva -- Responding to ESL students' texts : the myths of appropriation (1994) / Joy Reid -- Issues in ESL writing assessment : an overview (1996) / Liz Hamp-Lyons and Barbara Kroll -- Contrastive rhetoric in context : a dynamic model of L2 writing (1997) / Paul Kei Matsuda.