The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land (2006)
Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Xiaoye You, editors
The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land is the first edited collection to present a sustained discussion of classroom practices in larger contexts of institutional politics and policies. We refer here to policies on assessment, placement, credit, class size, course content, instructional practices, teacher preparation, and teacher support and to politics in terms of the relationships and interaction between second language writing professionals and their colleagues at the program, department, school, college, and university levels and beyond. Authors in this collection explore—through critical reflections and situated descriptions of their teaching practices in larger institutional contexts—how these policies and politics affect pedagogcial practices. Such descriptions would provide an understanding of how classroom practices are not neutral, pragmatic space but ideologically saturated site of negotiation.
Contents
The Politics of L2 Writers in U.S. K-12 Schools
1 "Writing Development and Biliteracy" by Danling Fu and Marylou Matoush
2 "Reforming High School Writing: Opportunities and Constraints for Generation 1.5 Writers" by Kerry Enright Villalva
The Politics of L2 Writing Support Programs
3 "The Legacy of First-Year Composition" by Ilona Leki
4 "Improving Institutional ESL/EAP Support for International Students: Seeking the Promised Land" by Ryuko Kubota and Kimberly Abels
5 "No ESL Allowed: A Case Exploring University and College Writing Program Practices" by Angela M. Dadak
6 "The Role(s) of Writing Centers in Second Language Writing Instruction" by Jessica Williams
The Politics of English Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes
7 "Understanding Context for Writing in University Content Classrooms" by Wei Zhu
8 "EAP and Technical Writing Without Borders: The Impact of Departmentalization on the Teaching and Learning of Academic Writing in a First and Second Language" by Guillaume Gentil
9 "Different Writers, Different Writing: Preparing International Teaching Assistants for Instructional Literacy" by Kevin Eric DePew
10 "Globalization and the Politics of Teaching EFL Writing" by Xiaoye You
The Politics of Second Language Writing Assessment
11 "The Politics of Implementing Online Directed Self-Placement for Second Language Writers" by Deborah Crusan
12 "Investing in Assessment: Designing Tests to Promote Positive Washback" by Sara Cushing Weigle
The Politics of the Profession
13 "Mapping Postsecondary Classifications and Second Language Writing Research in the United States" by Jessie Moore Kapper
14 "Institutional Politics in the Teaching of Advanced Academic Writing: A Teacher-Researcher Dialogue" by Christine Norris and Christine Tardy
15 "Shifting Sites, Shifting Identities: A Thirty-Year Perspective" by Stephanie Vandrick
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16 "Toward a Promised Land of Writing: At the Intersection of Hope and Reality" by Barbara Kroll
