附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index.
pt. 1. Academic Text and Teaching Second Language Writing. The importance of text in written academic discourse: ongoing goals in teaching ESL skills -- Student writing tasks and written academic genres -- Curriculum for teaching the language features of academic writing -- pt. 2. Sentences and Their Parts: Lexis and Grammar. Sentences, phrases, and text construction -- Nouns and the noun phrase -- More on the noun phrase: pronouns -- Teaching verb tenses and voice in text cohesion -- Lexical classes of verbs: meanings and text functions -- Adjectives and adverbs in academic discourse -- pt. 3. Text and Discourse Flow: The Sentence and Beyond. Backgrounding discourse and information: subordinate clauses -- Rhetorical features of text: cohesion and coherence -- Hedging in academic text in English.
摘要:Teaching Academic ESL Writing and Grammar fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know.
