Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing Pedagogy

Provoking and Assessing Development

J. Elliott Casal, Lindsey M. Kurtz, Xixin Qiu

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781800412439
• eBook ISBN: 9781800412538
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Genre-Based approaches to Second Language Writing Instruction have become a powerful and popular means of assisting second and multilingual writers in learning to engage in professional, pedagogical and academic genres that are often high-stakes. This book presents a framework for teaching second language and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors present three large-scale implementations, within a graduate legal writing context, a cross-disciplinary doctoral research writing context and a graduate mechanical engineering context, and demonstrate how the pedagogical and theoretical framework is interdisciplinary, flexible and comprehensive. It provides a means of theorizing, researching, teaching and assessing the development of second language writer genre knowledge from nascency through expertise and equips second language writing instructors with a theoretical and practical toolkit to empower student writers to be more agentive, aware and strategic in their writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Key Principles and Concepts
• 3 Legal Writing: Context and Pedagogy
• 4 Legal Writing: Findings and Implications
• 5 Graduate Academic Writing: Context, Concepts and Pedagogy
• 6 Graduate Academic Writing: Findings and Implications
• 7 Engineering Writing: Context and Pedagogy
• 8 Engineering Writing: Findings and ImplicationsGeyao’s Development of Grammatical Stance Expressions
• 9 Implications and Considerations for Other Contexts
• References
• Index