Teaching Academic L2 Writing - Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar

Targeting specific problem areas of students' writing, this text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and vocabulary to second-language learners.

List of contents

Part I. Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing
Chapter 1. The Importance of Text in Academic Writing: Ongoing Goals in
Teaching L2 Skills
Chapter 2. Student Writing in Colleges and Universities
Chapter 3. Designing a Course of Study
Part II. Sentences and Their Parts: Vocabulary and Grammar
Chapter 4. Sentences, Phrases, and Text Construction
Chapter 5. Nouns and the Noun Phrase
Chapter 6. More on the Noun Phrase: Pronouns
Chapter 7. Verb Tenses and Active-Passive Constructions in Text Cohesion
Chapter 8. Lexical Classes of Verbs: Meanings and Text Functions
Chapter 9. Adjectives and Adverbs in Academic Discourse
Part III. Text and Discourse Organization: The Sentence and Beyond
Chapter 10. Backgrounding Discourse and Information: Subordinate Clauses
Chapter 11. Rhetorical Features of Text: Cohesion and Coherence
Chapter 12. Hedging in Academic Text in English
Appendix A. Formulaic Expressions, Sentence Stems, and Phrases for Speaking,
Presenting, and Participating in Meetings
Appendix B. Constructions, Phrases, Formulaic Sequences, and Sentence Stems for
Academic Writing

About the author

Eli Hinkel is Professor of Linguistics and MA-TESL Programs at Seattle Pacific University, USA.

Summary

Targeting specific problem areas of students’ writing, this text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and vocabulary to second-language learners.

Product details

• Authors: Eli Hinkel, Eli (Seattle Pacific University Hinkel, Hinkel Eli
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781138345331
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34533-1
• No. of pages: 484
• Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, ELT grammar, Applied linguistics for ELT