Teaching Reading and Writing to ESL Students

Catalog description

In this course, participants will read and discuss various issues related to the teaching of reading and writing to second language learners. Students will examine what it means to read and write in a second/foreign language. This includes reviewing major theories of L2 reading and writing as well as reading and writing strategies more commonly employed by L2 readers and writers and the problems they most frequently encounter. The primary aim of the course is to gain a deeper understanding of the processes and variables at work in L2 reading and writing. The main focus of the course is traditional, or print-based, reading and writing, but some attention will be given to the new domain of online, or onscreen, reading and writing.