ESL Writers, Second Edition: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors by Bruce, Shanti

ESL Writers, Second Edition: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780867095944)

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ESL Writers, Second Edition: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors by Bruce, Shanti

ESL Writers, Second Edition: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors

$48.13
ESL Writers, Second Edition: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors by Bruce, Shanti

ESL Writers, Second Edition: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors

$48.13
Format: Paperback
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This book's focus on the different types of ESL learners, such as students from different countries, students of various academic levels, and Generation 1.5 Learners, is remarkable. It is a very useful book, and we frequently refer to it in our Writing Center. --Franziska Liebetanz
Writing Center Director, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Do you have second language students in your writing center? Do you have peer writing tutors? If so, here is the very book you and your tutors have been hoping for! --Harvey Kail
Writing Center Coordinator, University of Maine The second edition of ESL Writers continues to be the single most useful resource for tutor education on ESL matters....Writing center professionals will find the text to be an invaluable addition to their staff education program. Writing center tutors and consultants will benefit from the comprehensive review of L2 tutoring practice. --Clint Gardner
Former president, International Writing Centers Association Writing centers are seeing more and more kinds of ESL students. That's why the much-loved ESL Writers (winner of the International Writing Centers Association's Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book) has changed with the times to reflect the expanding diversity of writing center students. The Second Edition features five totally new essays and has been thoroughly revised to be more useful than ever. ESL Writers, Second Edition:
  • expands the definition of students and tutors with respect to their linguistic backgrounds, describing specifically the characteristics of a variety of English learners, including bilingual writers, Generation 1.5ers, recent immigrants, and foreign students who need support with academic English in a new first chapter
  • focuses greater attention on the diversity of cultural and literacy identities among students and tutors
  • addresses tutors' most frequently asked questions about helping ESL writers with English grammar
  • outlines methods for succeeding with tutoring ESL writers online as well as tips for common pitfalls.
Filled with suggestions and strategies based on a rigorous combination of experience, research, and theory, ESL Writers, Second Edition, remains a tutor's top resource for working with English learners.

Author: Ben Rafoth, Shanti Bruce
ISBN-10: 0867095946
ISBN-13: 9780867095944
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Ben Rafoth
By Ben Rafoth
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Shanti Bruce is coeditor of the Heinemann-Boynton/Cook title ESL Writers, Second Edition (2009). chairs the masters' in writing program and coordinates the undergraduate writing program at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is coeditor, with Kevin Dvorak, of Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work (Hampton Press).

Ben Rafoth directs the writing center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in writing, research methods, and composition theory and pedagogy. He is the editor or coeditor of the Heinemann-Boynton/Cook titles ESL Writers, Second Edition (2009) and A Tutor's Guide, Second Edition (2005).His essays and articles on composition theory and teaching have appeared in several publications, including Assessing Writing, Journal of Teaching Writing, Research in the Teaching of English, and The Writing Lab Newsletter. Ben was an executive officer for the International Writing Centers Association and is a recipient of the Ron Maxwell Award from the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.

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