Teaching Writing as a Second Language

by Alice S. Horning and Professor Alice Horning PhD

Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning's new com­prehensive theory about basic writers.

Horning explores the theory of writing acquisi­tion in detail. Her examination of spoken and writ­ten language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a sepa­rate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809313278
• ISBN13: 9780809313273
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"