Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing Pedagogy: Provoking and Assessing Development

By Xixin Qiu, J Elliott Casal, Lindsey M Kurtz

Genre-Based approaches to Second Language Writing Instruction have become a powerful and popular means of assisting second and multilingual writers in learning to engage in professional, pedagogical and academic genres that are often high-stakes. This book presents a framework for teaching second language and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors present three large-scale implementations, within a graduate legal writing context, a cross-disciplinary doctoral research writing context and a graduate mechanical engineering context, and demonstrate how the pedagogical and theoretical framework is interdisciplinary, flexible and comprehensive. It provides a means of theorizing, researching, teaching and assessing the development of second language writer genre knowledge from nascency through expertise and equips second language writing instructors with a theoretical and practical toolkit to empower student writers to be more agentive, aware and strategic in their writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800412436
• ISBN13: 9781800412439
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"