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Issue Theme: Special Issue: ESL Teaching and Learning: Writings in Diverse Voices
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Information for Authors [FREE ACCESS]
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Editorial: ESL Teaching and Learning: Writings in Diverse Voices [FREE ACCESS]
Natasha Lvovich and Martha Clark Cummings, guest editors
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The guest editors introduce the issue.
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A Lifetime of Grammar Teaching
Rod Ellis
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This professional autobiography, covering the time from my first teaching job in Spain upto the present, documents my development as a teacher, teacher educator, and researcher,showing how my thinking about teaching has evolved through my deepeningunderstanding of how learners learn the grammar of a second language.
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Beyond “ESL Writing”: Teaching Cross-Cultural Composition at a Community College
Susan Miller-Cochran
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This article describes the design and implementation of a cross-cultural composition coursewhich was designed to provide opportunities for ESL students and native English-speakingstudents to learn about cross-cultural literacy practices from each other in a first-yearwriting context at a community college in the Southwest.
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Using Contrastive Rhetoric in the ESL Classroom
Janet M. Quinn (New Voice)
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This hands-on article advocates teaching form to ESL students through the use ofcontrastive rhetoric, demonstrates how students apply L1 and L2 forms, andoffers suggestions for the classroom.
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Instructional Note: Photography and Writing: Alternative Ways of Learning for ESL Students [FREE ACCESS]
Helen Lepp Friesen (New Voice)
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This essay reflects on how one writing teacher incorporates photography in her practice toengage students of different backgrounds and experiences.
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Navigating Uncharted Waters: An Accelerated Content-Based English for Academic Purposes Program
Kelly Hernandez, Michelle Thomas, and Cynthia Schuemann
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This article chronicles an English for Academic Purposes curriculum developmentexperience of a grant-funded project to create an Accelerated Content-Based Englishcurriculum for intermediate- and advanced-level English Language Learners.
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The Heterogeneous Second-Language Population in US Colleges and the Impact on Writing Program Design
Kristen di Gennaro (New Voice)
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This article reviews various frameworks for defining second-language learner groups,as described in the literature, and summarizes relevant empirical studies basedon these frameworks.
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Prisoners Teaching ESL: A Learning Community among “Language Partners” [FREE ACCESS]
Andrea Olinger, Hugh Bishop, Jose Cabrales, Rebecca Ginsburg, Joseph Mapp, Orlando Mayorga, Erick Nava, Élfego Núñez, Otilio Rosas, Andre Slater, LuAnn Sorenson, Jim Sosnowski, and Agustin Torres
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A program in which prisoners teach ESL classes, supported by volunteer teacher-trainers, is alearning community with immense and sometimes unforeseen value.
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Reviews
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What English Language Teachers Need to Know, Vol. 1: Understanding Learning; Vol. 2: Facilitating Learning, by Denise E. Murray and MaryAnn Christison,Reviewed by Mary Lynn Navarro
Nonnative Speaker English Teachers: Research, Pedagogy, and Professional Growth, by George Braine, Reviewed by Monika Ekiert
In the Heart of Another: Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories, by Susan Philips, Reviewed by Frances Bracken Mejia
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