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Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional LanguageEdited by Rosa M. Manchón
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 31] 2011
► pp. 209–233
Chapter 10. Exploring the learning potential of writing development in heritage language education
John Hedgcock | Monterey Institute of International Studies, US
Natalie Lefkowitz | Central Washington University, US
This chapter examines writing-to-learn practices in a U.S. university foreign language (FL) setting that serves both Anglophone learners of Spanish as a FL and heritage language (HL) students. The HL participants in this study, adults with biliterate knowledge in Spanish and English, exhibit skills, needs, and expectations that diverge considerably from those of their (monolingual) FL counterparts. Evidence gathered from interviews with instructors, student surveys, and instructional materials points toward an approach in which writing serves merely as a means of enhancing language proficiency (a writing-to-learn approach). Findings suggest that traditional writing-to-learn practices are ill-suited to addressing HL students’ literacy needs, which include developing rhetorical skills and genre knowledge that have currency beyond the FL classroom. Accordingly, the chapter adds to the theme explored in the book with its analysis of the potential misalignments between the learning-to-write and writing-to-learn dimensions of L2 writing that may exist in a given instructional setting.
Published online: 05 October 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.31.14hed
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.31.14hed
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