Second language writing represents a critical domain where linguistic development and academic proficiency converge. Over recent decades researchers have deepened our understanding of how learners’ ...

A writing lab, started this semester, designed to help English as a second language (ESL) students meet the demands of undergraduate writing. The BYU Linguistics and English Language Department ...

The mission of the English Language Learner Writing Center (ELLWC) is to provide one-on-one consulting to undergraduate and graduate multilingual student writers. Through collaborative peer ...

Writing entices me. But every time I get down to writing something, I feel like a bumbling idiot. Nothing emerges. Ideas evaporate. Thoughts tangle. Language languishes. My frustration mounts. I quaff ...

A criticism of second language instruction at the college level is that there has been an over-emphasis on English grammar and correctness when students write and not enough emphasis on creativity. Is ...

Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Summer 2015), pp. 659-683 (25 pages) Learner corpora consist of texts produced by non-native speakers. In addition ...

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For ...

When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. I had been a journalist ...

Although diversity and integration are widely celebrated in today’s world, discrimination still exists. Writers, artists and thinkers intend to explore this through writing, in a just-announced ...