Teaching Academic L2 Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar

ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional

by Eli Hinkel

The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers to know. Before L2 writers can begin to successfully produce academic prose, they must understand the foundations of language and master the language tools that they need to build reasonable quality text. Targeting specific problem areas of students' writing, this text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and vocabulary to second-language learners.



Updated with current research and recent corpus analysis findings, the second edition features a wealth of new materials, including new teaching activities; student exercises and assignments; and substantially revised Appendices with supplementary word and phrase lists and sentence components. Designed for preservice ESL/ELT/TESOL courses as well as Academic Writing and Applied Linguistics courses, this book includes new, contextualized examples in a more accessible and easy-to-digest format.

Genres: Writing, Teaching, Education, Nonfiction, Language

376 pages, ebook

First published February 1, 2003

Reviews

[Tatjana · Rating 5 out of 5]

All in one for teaching academic writing.

[Tom Rowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good, very detailed book on teaching academic writing. It is also a slog at times because it is written in a very formal level of English. It outlines the features of academic English writing that non native speaks have difficulty with and then gives advice on how to teach students to overcome these challenges. If you are dedicated and really want a technical look at teaching ESL academic writing, I recommend.

[Amir · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good toolkit for academic writing. I definitely recommend it even to people who are already confident in their English skills.