The Relationship Between First and Second Language Writing: Investigating the Effects of First Language Complexity on Second Language Complexity in Advanced Stages of Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 732-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Ströbel ◽  
Elma Kerz ◽  
Daniel Wiechmann
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Complexity ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Advanced Stages ◽  
Stages Of Learning ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The Writer, the Text and the Reader: An Exploration of  Identity in Second Language Academic Writing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kirsten Reid
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Student Writers ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Students studying in university contexts often find learning to write English for academic purposes especially challenging. Some of the challenges reside in acquiring the necessary skills and strategies to be successful academic writers. A less tangible consideration which has received recent attention from first and second language writing researchers is the relationship between writing and identity. How do student writers become part of a situated community in which some discourses may be privileged over others? While all writing can be a potential site of struggle, this may have particular significance for second language students who bring their own unique backgrounds and literacy histories to their academic writing and may find becoming part of a new and heterogeneous discourse community profoundly unsettling. Using case study methods, this dissertation explores the experiences of four undergraduate students as they become academic writers in a second language. It also carries out an analysis of some of the linguistic features one particular student essay to examine how writers simultaneously construct their texts and are constructed by them.</p>

scholarly journals Second Language Writing Tasks: The Gains of the Cognitive-Mentalist Error Analysis in Essay Writings

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Dr. Akinwamide Timothy Kolade
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
First Language ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Sequential Order ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Written Form

<p><em>Writing is a skill, which demands that students plan and organize their imagination clearly and in sequential order to fulfill the essence of writing which is </em><em>communicative</em><em>. Teaching the writing skill is more difficult than teaching and practicing other language skills because of its generative tendency. It is an extremely complex cognitive activity in which the writer is required to demonstrate the control of a number of variables simultaneously and intelligently to achieve the communicative goal. By implication, it means the writer must plan the content, format, sentence structure, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and formation of ideas. Successful writing is an end product of intelligent reasoning and good planning. </em></p><p><em>It is from the complexity platform above that one can rightly view the audrous task of students of English as a Second Language (ESL) extraction. The interference from the First Language (FL) or Mother Tongue (MT) is inevitable at this trying stage. Interaction goes on globally and there is the need to be able to interact verbally and in the written form acceptably. The approach offers in the Cognitive Mentalist submission is the focus of this paper. The students are expected to express their views, imagination, experience and observations freely unmindful of errors. This approach is primarily expressive and laden with errors of the writers. The searchlight is therefore beamed on how the analysis of errors committed can be of benefits to both the ESL learner and teacher.</em></p>

scholarly journals First Language and Second Language Writing: The Role of Linguistic Knowledge, Speed of Processing, and Metacognitive Knowledge

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Schoonen ◽  
Amos van Gelderen ◽  
Kees de Glopper ◽  
Jan Hulstijn ◽  
Annegien Simis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
First Language ◽  
Metacognitive Knowledge ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Speed Of Processing ◽  
Language Writing
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