Teaching Academic L2 Writing

<p>The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers. Before L2 writers can begin to successfully produce academic prose they need to understand the foundations of the language and develop the language tools that will help them build reasonable quality text. Targeting specific problem areas of students’ writing this text offers a wealth of techniques for teaching writing grammar and vocabulary to second-language learners.</p><p>Updated with current research and recent corpus analysis findings the second edition features a wealth of new materials including new teaching activities; student exercises and assignments; and substantially revised appendices with supplementary word and phrase lists and sentence components. Designed for preservice ESL/ELT/TESOL courses as well as Academic Writing and Applied Linguistics courses this book includes new contextualized examples in a more accessible and easy-to-digest format.</p>