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Second Language Writing Mistakes: Are They Cognitively or Developmentally Based?

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Title: Second Language Writing Mistakes: Are They Cognitively or Developmentally Based?
Language: English
Authors: Burkhalter, Nancy
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 14
Publication Date: 1990
Document Type: Information Analyses
Speeches/Meeting Papers
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Learning Strategies, Learning Theories, Rhetoric, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Writing Processes, Writing Skills
Geographic Terms: U.S.; New Mexico
Abstract: The argument is presented that good writing begins with adult inner speech that ignores audience and then gradually evolves into a form of communication adding the vital component of audience into its focus. It is suggested that when second language writers are not trained to go beyond the inner speech in their own language, they do not have the metaskills, which include the notion of audience, that greatly facilitate writing tasks in the target language. English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) rhetorical errors, it is further argued, can then be attributed, at least in part, to underdeveloped writing skills in a student's native language. An investigation is made of both transfer and developmental rhetorical errors made by ESL students that suggests a shared responsibility between both sources. It is concluded, however, that while language transfer offers a useful method of analyzing some ESL rhetorical errors, it offers no theoretical underpinning on which to base methodology. (GLR)
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Second Language Research Forum (Eugene, OR, March 1-4, 1990).
Journal Code: RIEJAN1991
Entry Date: 1991
Accession Number: ED322728
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