Writing Across Languages

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The first volume of the serial is dedicated to writing, merely for the reason that writing can still be considered in language education to be a skill to which little attention is paid, where as discourses on listening, reading, and especially speaking experienced major advances over the last two decades. With the intention to question this rather international tendency from as many as possible different perspectives, this book unifies articles from Switzerland and Italy, Denmark, Germany, and the US, dealing with French, Italian, German, and English as foreign or second languages in all levels of instruction. The aim of this first volume is mainly to encourage the understanding of an expanded function of writing in the field of language education, in theoretical terms and within the framework of classroom practice. Writing is understood here not only as a tool for recording knowledge but also as a means of developing it. Writing seen as such reaches beyond the realm of a foreign language, connecting the learner's expertise of his/her native language and culture with the ones to be studied. When we acknowledge language as a social phenomenon, the potential uses of writing for learning across the curriculum are revealed.

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.,."a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and rhetoric."-Issues in Writing
...a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and rhetoric.-Issues in Writing
There is sufficient variety in the approaches of the different authors to ensure that there is indeed something for all readers, students, teachers, and researchers.-The Modern Language Journal
..."a welcome addition to the literature...of interest to both teachers of ESL/FL and to those of us teaching composition and rhetoric."-Issues in Writing
"There is sufficient variety in the approaches of the different authors to ensure that there is indeed something for all readers, students, teachers, and researchers."-The Modern Language Journal

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GERD BRUER is Assistant Professor in the Department on German Studies at Emory University. His interests include German as a foreign/second language, theory and methology of foreign language teaching, and theory and methology of writing and theater.