L2 Writing Instruction: A Design Orientation

Presenting an approach to L2 writing instruction relevant for today’s diverse, multilingual educational contexts and ever-changing literacies, this book provides readers a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical and pedagogical dimensions of a Design orientation to L2 writing that will be of particular interest for L2 researchers, teachers, and teacher educators.

5 Principles of Design Writing:

1. Target the understanding and use of a wide range of Available Designs.

2. Develop learners' multimodal literacies and integrate learners' lifeworld experiences with classroom instruction.

3. Leverage intertextuality to sensitize learners to discourse norms as they interpret and create texts.

4. Prioritize creativity in the identities learners take up in their writing and forms of writing included in the curriculum.

5. Incorporate multiple forms of collaboration as learners analyze, create, and reflect on processes and products of writing and their identities as developing writers.

Support for this research was provided by:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education

• The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

• University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship

• University of Wisconsin-Madison's Second Language Acquisition Doctoral Program