Audience and voice in current L1 composition texts: Some implications for ESL student writers

Iterative Multi-Draft Modelin Expository Problem-Solution Composition

“…The results showed a significant effect for content, F(5,34), p < .01, The students' responses on 5 Likert-scale questionnaire indicates that they have positive perceptions on this model application (see Table 3). for which their education should prepare them (Sasaki, 2000 (Ramanathan & Kaplan, 1996).…”

Taking the corpus to the classroom: Using children’s stories to compare learner and native text

“…Asian learners of English are traditionally viewed as group-orientated and harmony-seeking rather than individual critical thinkers keen to express their own voices (Atkinson 1997;Fox 1994, Ramathan andKaplan 1996;Stapleton 2002). The present study does much to offer an alternative to this view, and suggests that creative writing can take a more prominent role in Japanese education.…”

Second Language Learners’ Performance and Strategies When Writing Direct and Translated Essays

“…Baker (2008) argued that sociocultural and critical theories are fundamental for ESL instructors to understand how multilingual and multicultural students approach various writing tasks. It is believed that L2 writers may have different culturally-driven assumptions about academic writing in the L1 that may not be transferred directly to L2 writing (Connor, 2002;Dyc, 2002;Leki, 2000;Ramanathan and Kaplan, 1996). Consequently, writing should receive more attention in ESL classes in order to prepare the learners to cope with the communicative demands of real life situations.…”