Teaching Writing as a Second Language.

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Author / Creator:	Horning, Alice.
Imprint:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Description:	1 online resource (105 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Studies in writing & rhetoric.
Subject:	English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. Report writing -- Study and teaching. Adult education. Adult education. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. Report writing -- Study and teaching. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11242041

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ISBN:	9780809390830 0809390833
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning's new comprehensive theory about basic writers. Horning explores the theory of writing acquisition in detail. Her examination of spoken and written language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a separate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features. She proposes that basic writers learn to write as other learners master a second language because for them, academic written English is a whole new language. She explores the.
Other form:	Print version: Horning, Alice. Teaching Writing as a Second Language. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1986 9780809313273

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