Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing: Principles and Techniques

Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing sets out a clear big picture for curricular thinking about L2 writing pedagogy and offers a step-by-step guide to curriculum design with practical examples and illustrations. Its main purpose is to help pre-service and practicing teachers design courses for teaching academic writing and to do this as efficiently and effectively as possible. Bringing together the what and the how-to with research-based principles, what sets this book apart is its overarching focus on language pedagogy and language building.

Part 1 examines curricular foundations in general and focuses on what is socially valued in L2 writing and pedagogy at school and at the college and university level. Part 2 is concerned with the nitty-gritty?-the daily realities of curricular design and classroom instruction. Part 3 takes a close look at the key pedagogical ingredients of teaching academic L2 writing: vocabulary and collocations, grammar for academic writing, and down-to-earth techniques for helping L2 writers to organize discourse and ideas.

The Appendix provides an extensive checklist for developing curricula for a course or several courses in language teaching.

Book Details

• Author: Eli Hinkel
• Publisher: Routledge
• eBook ISBN: 9781136820335, 1136820337
• Print ISBN: 9780415889995, 0415889995
• Other ISBNs: 0415889987, 9780415889988, 0203830156, 1136820345, 1136820299, 1136820310, 1136820280, 133601279X, 9780203830154, 9781136820342, 9781136820298, 9781136820311, 9781136820281, 9781336012790