Writing about Multilingual Writing and Adaptive Transfer in an FYC Course

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second-language writing, writing-about-writing, transfer

Abstract

Through excerpts of student essays written for a first-year composition (FYC) course designed for students for whom English is a second or additional language (L2 students), this essay shows that a writing-about-writing (WAW) approach to college composition instruction encourages L2 students to draw upon the language knowledge they have gained through their experiences traversing diverse cultural contexts as they prepare to communicate in new academic and professional contexts.

Author Biography

Lindsey Ives, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Lindsey Ives is an assistant professor and coordinator of ESL composition courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate writing courses. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and privilege in a variety of contexts. Her work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, TESOL Quarterly, and the collection WAC and Second Language Writers: Research Towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices. Readers are welcome to contact her at ivesl@erau.edu.

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Published

2019-11-16

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2018): Summer/Fall 2018

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Articles

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