Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 2005 · 183 citations · 0 references
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The book argues that L2 writing instruction has historically focused on process and discourse, neglecting essential language skills needed for academic success. The author aims to correct this gap by identifying and describing the formal syntactic and lexical characteristics of academic text and advocating explicit teaching of these structures and lexical chunks. The approach involves identifying and describing formal syntactic and lexical characteristics of academic text and advocating explicit teaching of these structures and lexical chunks. Published by Erlbaum in Mahwah, NJ in 2004 by Eli Hinkel, 360 pages, priced $79.95 (cloth) or $37.50 (paper).
TEACHING ACADEMIC ESL WRITING: PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. Eli Hinkel . Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004. Pp. xii + 360. $79.95 cloth, $37.50 paper. In this text, Hinkel argues that second language (L2) writing instruction has long favored teaching the writing process and discourse and rhetorical features of text while neglecting the essential language skills that L2 writers need to succeed in mainstream university classes. She attempts to redress this perceived shortcoming by identifying and describing the formal syntactic and lexical characteristics of academic text and advocating the explicit teaching of these key structures and lexical chunks.