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Writing and Language Learning: Advancing research agendas
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 56] 2020
► pp. 3–26

Chapter 1
Writing and language learning

Looking back and moving forward

| University of Murcia

This introductory chapter serves two main purposes. One is to contextualize the book within the larger professional discussion, which entails a look back approach in order to provide a synthetic review of key milestones and developments in the study of writing as a site for language learning. The second aim is to introduce readers to the aims, structure, and contents of the book. To this end, I (a) outline the key elements of the various contributions to the book and the way in which they are framed in a common research agenda; (b) describe the interconnection among contributions and the internal coherence of the volume; and (c) advance the way in which the book attempts to move theory and research forward.

Article outline
  • Looking back: A synthetic review of key developments in theory and research on writing and language learning
    • Cumming’s pioneering work: A writing perspective
    • Linda Harklau’s contribution: An instructed SLA perspective
    • Manchón and Roca de Larios’s contribution: A problem-solving, SLA-oriented, L2-writing perspective
    • Subsequent collective initiatives to drive theory and research forward
    • Empirical developments on writing as language learning: A synthetic overview
  • Moving forward in research agendas on writing and language learning: The present book
    • Theory
    • Empirical developments
    • Future avenues
  • Closing commentary
  • References
Published online: 20 November 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.56.01man
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