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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959510703321

Autore

Ferris Dana

Titolo

Response to student writing : implications for second language students / / Dana R. Ferris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

ISBN

1-135-65577-4

1-135-65578-2

1-282-37440-0

9786612374401

1-4106-0720-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

428/.0071

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching

Grading and marking (Students)

College prose - Evaluation

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I: RESEARCH; CHAPTER 1 An Overview of L1 Composition Research on Response and Its Influence on L2 Writing Theory and Practice; CHAPTER 2 Teacher Feedback on L2 Student Writing; CHAPTER 3 Error Correction; CHAPTER 4 Research on Peer Response; CHAPTER 5 Student Views on Response; PART II: PRACTICE; CHAPTER 6 Preparing Teachers to Respond to Student Writing; CHAPTER 7 Suggestions for Error Correction; CHAPTER 8 Implementing Peer Response; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This volume synthesizes and critically analyzes the literature on response to the writing of second language students, and discusses the implications of the research for teaching practice in the areas of written and oral teacher commentary on student writing, error correction, and



facilitation of peer response.  The book features numerous examples of student texts and teacher commentary, as well as figures and appendices that summarize research findings and present sample lessons and other teaching materials. It is thus simultaneously comprehensive in its approach to the existing resea