Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing Pedagogy

<p>Genre-Based approaches to Second Language Writing Instruction have become a powerful and popular means of assisting second and multilingual writers in learning to engage in professional pedagogical and academic genres that are often high-stakes. This book presents a framework for teaching second language and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors present three large-scale implementations within a graduate legal writing context a cross-disciplinary doctoral research writing context and a graduate mechanical engineering context and demonstrate how the pedagogical and theoretical framework is interdisciplinary flexible and comprehensive. It provides a means of theorizing researching teaching and assessing the development of second language writer genre knowledge from nascency through expertise and equips second language writing instructors with a theoretical and practical toolkit to empower student writers to be more agentive aware and strategic in their writing.</p>