Second Language Writing

Cambridge Language Education

by Ken Hyland

This text is a highly accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English. This book is an accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English. It sets out the key issues in second language writing instruction to offer both pre-service and in-service teachers a guide to writing instruction grounded in current theory and research. The author takes the stance that student writers not only need realistic strategies for drafting and revising, but also a clear understanding of genre to structure their writing experience according to the demands and constraints of particular target contexts. This book will be extremely useful to prospective and practicing teachers alike.

Genres: Writing, Education, Linguistics, Language

318 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 2003

About the author

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and an Honorary Professor at Warwick University, Jilin University and Hong Kong University.

Reviews

[Derya Kulavuz-Onal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is comprehensive, easy-to-read, covers product, process and genre approaches to writing; is not specifically targeted for a specific level or group of language learners, so I believe teachers and teacher candidates of all levels and grades might find something in this book. The only disadvantage of this book is that it is getting dated, so I hope Hyland will publish a new edition of this book soon.

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dry, very ivory tower, and avoid the tech chapter at all costs if you teach in the time of Covid in an American public school. If you are looking for strategies you can apply tomorrow, look elsewhere. If you are looking for intellectual, theoretical underpinnings of practice, fine. But if you teach public K-12 currently, you'll be laughing or won't have the patience to get through it without heavy sighing,

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contains a lot of useful insight into how to effectively teach second language writing.
Not only does the book explain several aspects like course design, how to give feedback, etc., but the book also provides examples of how a teacher might go about doing what the book suggests. Appendixes include sample rubrics.

[Andrew Tattersall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eminently readable book on teaching writing to people for whom English is not a first language. It inspired many ideas for classroom practice and gave an intellectual rigor to what happens in the classroom and inspired me to want to read more.

[Awalina]

I want to read this book

[Afrin]

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