| Description |
xii, 204 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Shirley Brice Heath -- Ch. 1. The Discovery of Competence -- Ch. 2. Aspects of Competence I: Language Acquisition -- Ch. 3. Aspects of Competence II: Development of Thought -- Ch. 4. Teaching as Inquiry -- Ch. 5. Curriculum as a Framework for Discovery -- Ch. 6. Discovering Competence: Seeing Language in Contexts -- Ch. 7. Extending Competence: The Language of Literature -- Ch. 8. Assessing Competence: Extending the Conversation -- Ch. 9. Enriching Competence: Constructing Multicultural Frameworks of Knowledge and Understanding |
| Summary |
While the book speaks to all teachers of writing, it will be of considerable interest to those who work with diverse student populations, including ESL students. The authors make it clear that the writing classroom is not simply a place for certifying that students can demonstrate the linguistic practices of the university, but a place where both students and their teachers may build on their competence and realize their possibilities as writers and learners |
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This book documents a ten-year collaboration, which was itself a journey of discovery. It offers an account of the authors' work together, through which they came to appreciate their students' capacities as writers and learners, and tells how their thinking about teaching was transformed in the process. The Discovery of Competence shows how the writing classroom can be reconceived as an environment for collaborative inquiry by students and teachers. It presents new ways of thinking about program design, redefines the nature of writing assessment, and offers alternative conceptions of multicultural curricula. Drawing on students' writing and research, it suggests how teachers can recognize their students' competence and help them build on it systematically in the writing classroom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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Multicultural education.
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Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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| Author |
Groden, Suzy Q.
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Zamel, Vivian.
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| LC no. |
93016574 |
| ISBN |
0867093234 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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