Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students (The Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers) - Softcover

Canagarajah, A. Suresh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047208853X ISBN 13: 9780472088539

Publisher: Michigan ELT, 2002

Synopsis

The critical approach to L2 writing is arguably one of the most significant recent developments in L2 writing pedagogy. A. Suresh Canagarajah provides a thorough discussion of this topic in Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students.
This volume facilitates teacher self-reflection and enables readers to better understand the motivations and pedagogical implications--especially for L2 writing--of a more openly pedagogical approach.
Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students explains what it means to commit to an academic pedagogy, in terms of form, self, content, and community--and what it can accomplish in the L2 writing classroom. It's a guide for writing teachers who wish to embark on a journey toward increased critical awareness of the role they play, or potentially could play, in the lives of their students.

About this title

About the Author

A. Suresh Canagarajah taught English in the war-torn region of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, for ten years before joining the faculty of the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1994. He is the author of Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan ELT
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 047208853X
• ISBN 13: 9780472088539
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 296