Internationalizing the Writing Center

Noreen Groover Lape

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781643171654
• eBook ISBN:
  9781643171678
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education Administration
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Internationalizing the Writing Center provides a rationale, pedagogical plan, and administrative method for developing a multilingual writing center. The book incorporates work from writing center studies as well as second language acquisition studies, including English as a second language; English as a foreign language; second language writing; and foreign language writing. Author Noreen Lape draws on ten years of experience directing a multilingual writing center that offers writing tutoring in eleven languages, and she incorporates the voices and insights of foreign language writing tutors and faculty from surveys, interviews, and tutoring session reports.Lape begins by exploring the dominance of English-medium writing centers in a globalized world and arguing for the expansion of English-centric into multilingual writing centers. She then considers how tutor training differs when the writing center is multilingual as opposed to monolingual, and the writing is second language and foreign language as well as "native" language. The chapters on tutor training explore issues such as holistic tutoring, composing in a foreign language, the role of translating in the writing process, creating a positive learning environment, and developing intercultural competence. In multiple appendices, Lape shares original exercises that writing center administrators can use to train foreign language writing tutors. The book ends with a discussion of strategies for engaging faculty and administrators as stakeholders, and collaborating with those stakeholders to create a sustainable center.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Multilingual Writing Centers in Context
• 2 Holistic Tutoring Practices: Toggling Between the Parts and the Whole
• 3 Holistic Tutoring Practices: Creating a Supportive Learning Environment
• 4 Helping Writers Understand Writing Culture Shock and Develop Intercultural Competence
• 5 Working with Stakeholders to Develop and Administer a Multilingual Writing Center
• Appendix E: Creating a Positive Learning Environment by Sharing Second Language Learning Experiences
• 6 Developing an MWC with Foreign Language Faculty
• Appendix A: The Arc of a Tutoring Session
• Appendix B: Directive and Nondirective Tutoring Techniques
• Appendix F: Practicing Intercultural Competence in a Writing Center Session
• Appendix C: Tutoring for Language Acquisition
• Appendix D: Google Translate Exercise
• Appendix H: Holly and Leila: A Problem-Based Learning Exercise
• Appendix G: What Would You Do? Holistic Tutoring Scenarios
• Appendix I: One-Day Tutor Training Agenda and Monthly Staff Training Schedule
• Notes
• Works Cited
• About the Author
• Index
• Back cover
• page iv.pdf