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Encourages the understanding of an expanded function of writing in the field of language education, in theoretical terms and within the framework of classroom practice. little attention has been paid.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. History and Theories
Writing and Foreign Language Pedagogy: Theories and Implications Torild Homstad and Helga Thorson
Product, Process, and the Writer Within: History of a Paradigm Shift Gerd Bräuer
Part II: People
Creative Writing With Young Immigrants Rose Schrader
Dialogue Journals in the Adult ESL Classroom Karen Sanders
Automatic Writing in the Preparation of Immigrants for Work Markus Schrader, III
Spaces. On the Interface of Writing and Speech Bob Weissberg
Internet Writing and Language Learning Inge Blatt
Using Computers to Teach Writing in the FL-Classroom Terri Nelson, IV
Modes of Learning
Zen and the Art of Writing Ralf Saborrosch
Method Awareness and the Teaching of Writing Antonie Hornung
Quantity vs. Quality?
Using Extensive and Intensive Writing in the FL Classroom Torild Homstad and Helga Thorson
The use of Workshops and Seminars in the ESL Classroom Lisbet Pals Svendsen
Portfolio Learning Gerd Bräuer
Afterword
Expanding the Function of Writing in Foreign and Second Language Education

About the Author

GERD BRÄUER is Assistant Professor in the Department on German Studies at Emory University. His interests include German as a foreign/second language, theory and methology of foreign language teaching, and theory and methology of writing and theater.

Reviews

.,."a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and rhetoric."-Issues in Writing

?...a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and rhetoric.?-Issues in Writing

?There is sufficient variety in the approaches of the different authors to ensure that there is indeed something for all readers, students, teachers, and researchers.?-The Modern Language Journal

..."a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and rhetoric."-Issues in Writing

"There is sufficient variety in the approaches of the different authors to ensure that there is indeed something for all readers, students, teachers, and researchers."-The Modern Language Journal