Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing: Principles and Techniques

By Eli Hinkel

Book Overview

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-gritty̶--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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415889995
• ISBN13: 9780415889995
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"