A Select Bibliography
on Writing in a Second Language
L-Z
This bibliography does not contain any of the arcticeles published in the Journal of Second Language Writing, which has been in existence since 1992.
- Lackstrom, T., Selinker, L., & Trimble, L. (1973). Technical rhetorical principles and grammatical choice.
- TESOL Quarterly, 7, 127-136.
- Land, R., & Whitley, C. (1989). Evaluating second language essays in regular composition
- classes: toward a pluralistic U. S. rethoric. In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 284-293). New York: Longman.
- Larsen-Freeman, D. (1978a). An ESL index of development. TESOL Quarterly, 12,
- 439-448 .
- Larsen-Freeman, D. (1978b). Evidence for the need for a second language acquisition index
- of development. In W. C. Ritchie (Ed.), Second language acquisition research: Issues and implications (pp. 127-136). New York: Academic Press.
- Larsen-Freeman, D., & Strom, V. (1977). The construction of a second language acquisition index
- of development. Language Learning, 27, 123-134.
- Lautamatti, L. (1987). Observations on the development of the topic of simplified discourse.
- In U. Connor & R. B. Kaplan (Eds.), Writing across languages: Analysis of L2 text (pp. 87-114). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
- Lay, N. D. S. (1982). compositing processes of adult ESL learners: a case study.
- TESOL Quarterly, 16, 406.
- Leap, W. (1983). Linguistics and written discourse in particular languages:
- Contrastive studies: English and American Indian languages. In R. B. Kaplan (Ed.), ARAL: 1982 (pp. 24-37). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
- Leki, I. (1990). Coaching from the margins: issues in written response.
- In B. Kroll (Ed.), Second language writing: Research insights for the classroom (pp. 57-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Lewis, S. A. (1981). Practical aspects of teaching composition to bidialectal students:
- The Nairobi method. In M. F. Whiteman (Ed.), Writing: The nature, development, and teaching of written communication: Vol. 1. Variation in writing: functional and linguistic-cultural differences (pp. 189-196). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Lim, H.-P. (1983). The development of syntax in the writing of university ESL students.
- TESOL Quarterly, 17, 313-314.
- LoCoco, (1975). An analysis of Spanish and German learners' errors.
- Working Papers on Bilingualism. 7, 96-124.
- Mangelsdorf, K. (1989). Parallels between speaking and writing in second language acquisition.
- In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 134-145). New York: Longman.
- McDaniel, B. A. (1980). Contrastive rhetoric: Diagnosing problems in coherence.
- The English Quarterly, 13, 65-75.
- McKay, S. (1979). Communicative writing. TESOL Quarterly, 13, 73-80.
- McKay, S. (1989). Topic development and written discourse accent. In D. Johnson
- & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 253-262). New York: Longman.
- Mittan, R. (1989). The peer review process: Harnessing student's communicative power.
- In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 207-219). New York: Longman.
- Modiano, N. (1973). Indian education in the Chiapas Highlands.
- New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
- Mohan, B. (1986). Response to Ricento: On hypotheses in cross cultural rhetoric research.
- TESOL Quarterly, 20, 569-573.
- Mohan, B. (1986). Response to Gregg. . . On evidence for cross cultural rhetoric.
- TESOL Quarterly, 20, 358-361.
- Mohan, B., & Au-Yeung Lo, W. (1985). Academic writing and Chinese students:
- Transfer and developmental factors. TESOL Quarterly, 19, 515-534 .
- Moll, L. (1989). Teaching second language students: A Vygotskian perspective.
- In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 55-69). New York: Longman.
- Moore, F. B., & Marzano, R. J. (1979). Common errors of Spanish speakers learning English.
- Research in the Teaching of English, 13, 161-167 .
- Mullen, K. A. (1980). Evaluating writing proficiency in ESL. In J. Oller,
- & K. Perkins (Eds.), Research in language testing (pp. 160-169). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
- Noguchi, R. B. (1987). Transformational-generative syntax and the teaching of sentence mechanics.
- Journal of Basic Writing, 6(2) , 26-36 .
- Odell, L. (1983). Redefining maturity in writing. In A. Freedman, I. Pringle, & J. Yalden (Eds.),
- Learning to write: First language/second language (pp. 98-113). New York: Longman.
- Odlin, T. (1986). Another look at passage correction tests. TESOL Quarterly, 20, 123-130.
- Ostler, S. (1980). A survey of academic needs for advanced ESL. TESOL Quarterly, 14, 489-502.
- Ostler, S. (1981). The use of tenses in reporting past literature. In L. Selinker., E. Tarone,
- & V. Hanzeli (Eds.), English for academic and technical purposes (pp. 76-90). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
- Ostler, S. (1987). English in parallels: A comparison of English and Arabic prose. In U. Connor
- & R. B. Kaplan (Eds.), Writing across languages: Analysis of L2 text (pp. 169-185). Reading MA: Addison Wesley.
- Pandharipande, R. (1983). Linguistics and written discourse in particular languages:
- Contrastive studies: English and Marathi. In R. B. Kaplan (Ed.), ARAL: 1982 (pp. 118-136). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
- Paulston, C. B. (1972). Teaching writing in the ESOL classrooms: Techniques of
- controlled composition. TESOL Quarterly, 6, 33-60.
- Pearson, C. (1981). Advanced academic skills in the low-level ESL class.
- TESOL Quarterly, 15, 413-423.
- Perkins, K. (1980). Using objective methods of attained writing proficiency to discriminate among
- holistic evaluations. TESOL Quarterly, 14, 61-69.
- Perkins, K. (1983). On the use of composition scoring techniques, objective measures,
- and objective tests to evaluate ESL writing ability. TESOL Quarterly, 17, 651-671.
- Peyton, J., & Mackinson-Smyth, J. (1989). Writing and talking about writing:
- Computer networking with elementary students. In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 100-119). New York: Longman.
- Philips. S. U. (1975). Literacy as a mode of communication on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
- In E. H. Lenneberg, & E. Lenneberg (Eds.), Foundations of language development: A multidisciplinary approach. Vol. 2. (pp. 367-382). New York: Academic Press.
- Politzer, R. L., & Ramirez, A. G. (1973). An error analysis of the spoken English
- of Mexican American pupils in a bilingual school and a monolingual school. Language Learning, 23, 39-62.
- Potter, L. (1981). American Indian children and writing: An introduction to some issues.
- In B. Cronnell (Ed.), The writing needs of linguistically different students (pp. 129-160). Los Alamitos, CA: SWRL Educational Research and Development.
- Purves, A., & Takal, S. (Eds.). (1982). An international perspective on the evaluation
- of written composition. New York: Pergamon Press.
- Raimes, A. (1979). Language in education: Theory and practice: 14.
- Problems and teaching strategies in ESL composition. Arlington, VA: Center for Applied Linguistics.
- Raimes, A. (1985). What unskilled ESL students do as they write: A classroom study
- of composing. TESOL Quarterly, 19, 229-258.
- Raimes, A. (1987). Language proficiency, writing ability and composing strategies:
- A study of ESL college student writers. Language Learning, 37, 439-468.
- Raimes, A. (1991). Out of the woods: Emerging traditions in the teacing of writing.
- TESOL Quarterly, 25, 375-406.
- Raimes, A. (1993). The author responds...TESOL Quarterly, 27, 306-310.
- Reid, J. (1985). The radical outliner and the radical brainstormer: A perspective
- on the composing process. TESOL Quarterly, 18, 529-534.
- Reid, J. (1989). English as a second language composition in higher education:
- The expectations of the academic audience. In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 220-234). New York: Longman.
- Reid, J. (1990). Responding to different topic types: a quantitative analysis from a
- contrastive rhetoric perspective. In B. Kroll (Ed.), Second language writing: Research insights for the classroom (pp. 191-210). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ricento, T. (1986). Comments on Bernard A. Mohan and Winnie Au Yeung Lo's
- "Academic Writing and Chinese Students: Transfer and developmental factors." A reader reacts.... TESOL Quarterly, 20, 565-568 .
- Robb, T., Ross, S., & Shortreed, I. (1986). Salience of feedback on error and its effect
- on EFL writing quality. TESOL Quarterly, 20, 83-95.
- Rodrigues, R. (1974). A comparison of the written and oral English syntax
- of Mexican American bilingual and Anglo American monolingual fourth and ninth grade students. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of New Mexico.
- Roen, D. (1989). Developing effective assignments for second language writers.
- In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 193-206). New York: Longman.
- Rosier, P., & Farella, M. (1976). Bilingual education at Rock Point: Some early results.
- TESOL Quarterly, 10, 379-388.
- Rosier, P., & Holm, W. (1980). Bilingual education series: 8. The Rock Point experience:
- A longitudinal study of a Navajo school program. Washington,D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.
- Samway, K. (1987). Children's composing in English as a nonnative language.
- Unpublished doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Rochester.
- Samway, K. (1993). "This isn't hard is it?" Children evaluating writing. TESOL Quarterly, 27, 233-258.
- Sanborn, J. (1987). Obstacles and opportunities: Sentence combining in advanced ESL.
- Journal of Basic Writing, 6(2) , 60-71.
- Santana-Seda, 0., Sr. (1974). A contrastive study in rhetoric: An analysis
- of the organization of English and Spanish paragraphs written by native speakers of each language. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, New York University.
- Santiago, R. (1968). A contrastive analysis of some rhetorical aspects of writing
- in Spanish and English of Spanish-speaking college students in Puerto Rico. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University.
- Saville-Troike, M. (1984). What really matters in second language learning for
- academic achievement? TESOL Quarterly, 18, 199-219.
- Sayers, D. (1989). Bilingual sister classes in computer writing networks. In D. Johnson
- & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 120-133). New York: Longman.
- Scarcella, R. C. (1984). How writers orient their readers in expository essays: A comparative
- study of native and non-native English writers. TESOL Quarterly, 18, 671-688.
- Schlumberger, A., & Clymer, D. (1989). Teacher training through teacher collaboration.
- In D. Johnson & D. Roen (Eds.), Richness in writing (pp. 146-159). New York: Longman.
- Schneider, M., & Connor, U. (1990). Analyzing topical structure in ESL essays:
- Not all topics are equal. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 12, 411-427.
- Scott, M., & Tucker, G. (1974). Error analysis and English language strategies of Arab students.
- Language Learning, 24, 69-98.
- Scribner, S., & Cole, M. (1981). Unpackaging literacy. In M. F. Whiteman, (Ed.), Writing:
- The nature, development, and teaching of written communication: Vol. 1. Variation in writing: Functional and linguistic-cultural differences (pp. 71-87). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Scribner, S., & Cole, M. (1981). The psychology of literacy. Cambridge, MA:
- Harvard University Press.
- Shaughnessy, M. P. (1977). Errors and expectations: A guide for the teacher of basic writing. New York:
- Oxford University Press.
- Shih, M. (1986). Content-based approaches to teaching academic writing.
- TESOL Quarterly, 20, 617-648.
- Shy, R. W. (1981). Toward a developmental theory of writing. In C. H. Frederiksen,
- & J. F. Dominic (Eds.), Writing: The nature, development, and teaching of written communication: Vol. 2. Writing: Process, development, and communication (pp. 119-132). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Silva, T. (1990). Second language composition instruction: developments, issues, and directions in ESL.
- In B. Kroll (Ed.), Second language writing: Research insights for the classroom (pp. 11-23). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Silva, T. (1993). Toward an understanding of the distinctive nature of L2 writing:
- The ESL research and its implications. TESOL Quarterly, 27, 657-677.
- Sokmen, A. (1988). Taking advantage of conference centered writing.
- TESOL Newsletter, 22(1) , 1 & 5.
- Spack, R. (1984). Invention strategies and the ESL college composition student.
- TESOL Quarterly, 18, 649-670.
- Spack, R. & Sadow, C. (1983). Student-teacher working journals in ESL freshman composition.
- TESOL Quarterly, 17, 575-593.
- Steffensen, M. S., Joag-Dev, C., & Anderson, R. C. (1979). A cross cultural perspective on reading comprehension.
- Reading Research Quarterly, 15, 10-29.
- Swain, M. (1976). Writing skills of grade 3 immersion pupils. In M. Swain, & H. Barik (Eds.),
- Five years of primary French immersion (pp. 103-130). Toronto: The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
- Swales, J. (1983). Developing materials for writing scholarly introductions. In R. Jordan (Ed.),
- Case studies in ELT (pp. 188-200). London: Collins.
- Swales, J. (1985). English language papers and authors' first language: Preliminary exploration.
- Scientometrics, 8, 91-101.
- Swales, J. (1987). Utilizing the literatures in teaching the research paper.
- TESOL Quarterly, 21, 41-68.
- Szwed, J. F. (1981). The ethnography of literacy. In M. F. Whiteman (Ed.), Writing:
- The nature, development, and teaching of written communication: Vol. 1. Variation in writing: Functional and linguistic-cultural differences (pp. 13-23). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Tannen, D. (1980). Implications of the oral/literate continuum for cross-cultural communication.
- In J.E. Alatis (Ed.), Georgetown university round table on languages and linguistics 1980: Current issues in bilingual education (pp. 326-347). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
- Tarone, E., Dwyer, S., & Icke, V. (1981). On the use of the passive in two astrophysics
- journal papers. ESP Journal, 1, 123-140.
- Taylor, B. (1976). Teaching composition to low-level ESL students.
- TESOL Quarterly, 10, 309-320.
- Taylor, B. (1981). Content and written form: A two-way street. TESOL Quarterly, 16, 5-13.
- Thomas-Ruzic, M., & Thompson-Panos, K. (1984). The authors respond.... TESOL Quarterly, 18, 545-547.
- Thompson-Panos, K., & Thomas-Ruzic, M. (1983). The least you should know about Arabic:
- Implications for the ESL writing instructor. TESOL Quarterly, 17, 609-623.
- Tomiyana, M. (1980). Grammatical errors and communicative breakdown.
- TESOL Quarterly, 14, 71-79.
- Tricomi, E. T. (1986). Krashen's second-language acquisition theory and the teaching
- of Edited American English. Journal of Basic Writing, 5(2) , 59-69.
- Troike, R. C. (1978). Research evidence for the effectiveness of bilingual education.
- NABE Journal, 3, 13-24.
- Tsao, F.-F. (1983). Linguistics and written discourse in particular languages: Contrastive studies:
- English and Chinese (Mandarin). In R. B. Kaplan (Ed.), ARAL: 1982 (pp. 99-117). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
- Urzua, C. (1987). "You stopped too soon": Second language children composing and revising.
- TESOL Quarterly, 21, 279-304.
- Valdes, G. (1992). Bilingual minorities and language issues in writing.
- Written Communication, 9, 85-136.
- Valdez, C. M. (1981): Identity, power and writing skills: The case of the Hispanic bilingual
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- Vann, R. J. (1979). Oral and written syntactic relationships in second language learning.
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- Vann, R., Meyer, D., & Lorenz, F. (1984). Error gravity: A study of faculty opinion of ESL
- errors. TESOL Quarterly, 18, 427-440.
- Watson, C. (1982). The use and abuse of models in the ESL writing class.
- TESOL Quarterly, 16, 5-14.
- Weissberg, R. (1984). Given and new: Paragraph development models from scientific English.
- TESOL Quarterly, 18, 485-500.
- Weissberg, R., & Buker, S. (1978). Strategies for teaching the rhetorics of written English
- for science and technology. TESOL Quarterly, 12, 321-329.
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- research papers. TESOL Quarterly, 14, 483-488.
- White, L. (1977). Error analysis and error correction in adult learners of English as a second
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- I. Pringle, & J. Yalden (Eds.), Learning to write: First language/second language (pp. 34-47). New York: Longman.
- Winer, L. (1992). "Spinach to chocolate": Changing awareness and attitudes in ESL writing
- teachers. TESOL Quarterly, 26, 57-80.
- Woods, D. (1984). A process orientation in ESL writing. In L. Young (Ed.),
- Carleton papers in applied language studies, 1 (pp. 101-138). Ottawa: Carleton University.
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- Zamel, V. (1980). Reevaluating sentence-combining practice. TESOL Quarterly, 14, 81-90.
- Zamel, V. (1982). Writing: The process of discovering meaning. TESOL Quarterly, 16, 195-209.
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