Bringing a Multilingual and Multicultural Lens to WAC

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Bibliography on WAC and Second Language Writing

Cox, Michelle.  “WAC-WID and Second Language Writing.” WPA-CompPile

Research Bibliographies, No. 8. WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies.  2010. http://comppile.org/wpa/bibliographies/Bib8/Cox.pdf

Sources to share with faculty across the curriculum

Bruce, Shanti and Ben Rafoth, ed.  ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors 2nd ed.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009.  

Currie, Pat.  “Staying Out of Trouble: Apparent Plagiarism and Academic Survival.”  Journal of Second Language Writing 7.1 (1998): 1-18.

Harklau, Linda, Kay M. Losey, and Meryl Siegal.  “Linguistically Diverse Students and College Writing: What is Equitable and Appropriate?”  Generation 1.5 Meets College Composition.   Ed. Linda Harklau, Kay M. Losey, and Meryl Siegal.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999.  1-14.

Land, Robert E. and Catherine Whitley.  “Evaluating Second-Language Essays in Regular Composition Courses: Toward a Pluralistic U.S. Rhetoric.”  Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook.  Ed. Paul Kei Matsuda, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.  324-32.

Leki, Ilona.  Understanding ESL Writers: A Guide for Teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1992.

Severino, Carol.  “The Sociopolitical Implications of Response to Second Language and Second Dialect Writing.”  Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook.  Ed. Paul Kei Matsuda, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.  330-50.

Robertson, Wayne, dir.  Writing Across Borders. Oregon State University, 2005.   

Online Resources

CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers http://www.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/secondlangwriting

Second Language Writing Interest Section

http://secondlanguagewriting.com/slwis/

Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW)

http://sslw.asu.edu/

Journals related to L2 Studies

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies(CISL): a refereed, quarterly journal that publishes language studies overlapping with the fields of applied linguistics, language policy and planning, among others. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775648099~db=all

ELT Journal:  http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/

ESL Magazine Online: http://www.eslmag.com/

The Internet TESL Journal: http://iteslj.org/

Journal of Second Language Writing: an international journal on second language and foreign language writing research. http://www.jslw.org/

TESOL Journal: a refereed, practitioner-oriented electronic journal based on current theory and research n the field of TESOL. http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=208&DID=1678

TESOL Quarterly: a peer-reviewed premier journal of the TESOL Association. http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=209&DID=1679

Journal of English for Academic Purposes http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622440/description#description

English for Specific Purposes: An International Research Journal http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/682/description#description