SLW News, November 2023
Letter from the Editors
Svetlana Koltovskaia, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, USA
Sidury Christiansen, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Michael Mauricio, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Letter from the Chair
Sidury Christiansen, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Research Brief: Multilingual Genre Knowledge Development In A College Writing Course
Wei Xu, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Multilingual writers studying in US universities need to learn to write both across diverse genres and across languages. This classroom-based study examines how multilingual writers’ genre knowledge may be recontextualized across languages and offers implications for teaching genre knowledge in multilingual writing classrooms.
Meet the Experts: An Interview with Dr. Qian Du
Qian Du, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Svetlana Koltovskaia, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, USA
Read an enlightening interview with Dr. Qian Du, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Du shares her inspiring journey into the field of SLW and her cutting-edge research. Explore her insights on effective teaching, the challenges in the field, and the intersection of writing, culture, and technology.
Five Characteristics of Effective, Genre-Based Writing Tasks
Kristin Rock, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Unlock the secrets to effective second language writing (SLW) tasks in this insightful article. Pulling from research in genre-based approaches to teaching writing and task-based approaches to teaching language, Dr. Kristin Rock unveils five key characteristics of effective SLW tasks. Get ready to discover how tasks can be explicit, genuine, recurrent, social, and varied.
Meet the Members: SLW News Trainee Editor
Michael Mauricio, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Call for Submissions
Want to share a great teaching tip? Preliminary findings? A journal article with great pedagogical implications? We are looking for you!