Chapter 8 – Website Links

 

CAELA

T. Bello. (1997). Improving ESL learners’ writing skills. ERIC Digests. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education.

 

Capital Community College

Sentence Sense: An Online Textbook in Basic Writing. There are four sections that cover grammar, common sentence errors, writing and resources.

 

ESL Flow

Academic writing basics: includes worksheets, pre-writing ideas, introductory/elementary writing ideas, introductions, outlines, topic sentences, main ideas,

and sentence writing exercises.

 

The Internet TESL Journal

D. J. Jarvis. (2002). The process writing method. The Internet TESL Journal, 8(7).

 

Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

R. Wajnryb. (1997, September). Grammar Dictation: The Dictogloss Procedure as a Means to Explore and Shift Learners’ Hypotheses about Language. The Language Teacher.

 

National Council of Teachers of English

Writing Now: A Policy Research Brief Produced by the National Council of Teachers of English, includes research based recommendations for effective writing instruction and assessment.

 

National Writing Project

Site devoted to improving writing and learning.

 

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

An excellent resource for both students and teachers. See the explanation of the differences between quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing, as well as APA documentation. Exercises can be adapted to English language learners; however, there is also a specific section for ESL instructors and students. 

 

Teaching English (BBC)

E. Pathare. Responding to Content. BBC | British Council’s Teaching English.

 

TESL-EJ

A. Bruton. (2005). Process writing and communicative-task-based instruction: Many common features, but more common limitations? TESL-EJ, 9(3), A-2.

 

U.S. Department of State

N. Bartels. (2003). Written peer response in L2 writing. English Teaching Forum 41(1), 34–38.

 

With One Stone

A Canadian Grammar Series for ABE Students