Writing is an important early literacy skill for English as a Second Language (ESL) students'
academic success, underlining the importance of effective ESL writing instruction at the K-12 …

This paper discusses the teaching of writing within the competing and often contradictory
spaces of high-stakes testing and the practices and priorities around writing pedagogy in …

Writing is a complex and highly individual activity, which is approached in different ways by
different writers. Writers reflexively mediate subjective and objective conditions in specific …

Writing is a complex and learned activity in that it requires us to shape our thoughts into
words and texts that are appropriate for the purpose, audience and medium of a variety of …

In writing research, we are understandably drawn to the writing itself and those who produce
it, ie students. Not surprisingly, then, in both native language (L1) and second/foreign …

Teacher research allows teachers to learn about their teaching and connect theory to
practice through systematic self-study. This report examines eight US-based graduate …

Abstract One task of Feiman-Nemser's teacher learning model—develop tools and
dispositions to study teaching—frames how we organized learning opportunities during …

Written language is a powerful communicative tool. It enables us to bring something into
existence, to create a snapshot that we can ponder on, to which we can attend and relate to …

Writing is an important skill for children's academic success (eg, Fitts et al., 2016),
underlining the need for effective ESL writing instruction in the elementary classroom (Brisk …

This thesis reports the findings of three studies designed to investigate the influences of
backgrounds on learners and instructors in learning and teaching second language (L2) …