International Students' Multilingual Literacy Practices - An Asset-Based Approach to Understanding Academic Discourse Socialization

This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills.

Summary

This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter I. De Costa (Editor), Jongbong Lee (Editor), Wendy Li (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781800415553
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-555-3
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories