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- Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Utah State University Press
summary
Multilingual writers—often graduate students with more content knowledge and broader cultural experience than a monolingual tutor—unbalance the typical tutor/client relationship and pose a unique challenge for the writing center. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers explores how directors and tutors can better prepare for the growing number of one-to-one conferences with these multilingual writers they will increasingly encounter in the future.
This much-needed addition of second language acquisition (SLA) research and teaching to the literature of writing center pedagogy draws from SLA literature; a body of interviews Rafoth conducted with writing center directors, students, and tutors; and his own decades of experience. Well-grounded in daily writing center practice, the author identifies which concepts and practices directors can borrow from the field of SLA to help tutors respond to the needs of multilingual writers, what directors need to know about these concepts and practices, and how tutoring might change in response to changes in student populations.
Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers is a call to invigorate the preparation of tutors and directors for the negotiation of the complexities of multilingual and multicultural communication.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- 2. Learning from Interaction
- pp. 40-73
- 3. Academic Writing
- pp. 74-104
- 4. Corrective Feedback
- pp. 105-120
- 5. Preparing Ourselves and Our Tutors
- pp. 121-140
- References
- pp. 143-151
- About the Author
- p. 152
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874219647
Related ISBN(s)
9780874219630
MARC Record
OCLC
898228101
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-17
Language
English
Open Access
No