6 Agency in L2 Academic Literacies: Immigrant Students’ Lived Experiences in Focus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Preface xiii
6. 1 Crossing Borders 1
7. 2 When Errors Are Corrected 18
8. 3 Writing Academically in English as a Second Language: The Case of Syntactic Constructions 38
9. 4 Writing in School Science for EAL Students: Linguistic Challenges and Pedagogical Response 64
10. 5 Supporting EAL Writing Development in the Early Stages of the Doctorate: Candidates from the East Writing in the West 84
11. 6 Agency in L2 Academic Literacies: Immigrant Students’ Lived Experiences in Focus 107
12. 7 Constructing Persuasion: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Chinese and English Student Writings 131
13. 8 Crossing Literacy Borders through Writing: Transformational Apprenticeship and Repositioning of EAL Learners 147
14. Index 165