Teaching Second Language Writing

Charlene Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University, USA.

Chapter 1 Teaching Second Language WritingWhat is Writing adn What is Its Prupose in the Language Classroom? How Can Writing Help Students Learn a Second Language? The reasons for teaching writing: the role of writing in second language acquisition, writing activities and tasks that will help students learn language, collaborative writing, goals and activities related to real-life writing tasks, scaffolding the writing process, options for giving feedback, assessing writing, Sample Assignments.