Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had students who were bright, ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

Teaching grade-level content to students who have just arrived in the United States and whose English skills are limited is a difficult task. High school-level content specialists especially have ...

Writing research has given us few accounts of the writing experience of ESL students outside the English or writing classroom. This article reports a qualitative research study of 5 ESL visa students ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

So Beckford, a professor of English at CT State Community College-Tunxis, strives to shift that feeling. Or subscribe now to ...

Every semester, students from all class years scramble to secure a seat in many of Brown’s smaller seminar courses. But there ...

Centre County nonprofit Ridgelines Language Arts will host a one-day conference focused on what it means to teach writing, ...

Vol. 101, No. 3, Special Issue: Instructional Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities (Jan., 2001), pp. 251-272 (22 pages) We present results of a meta-analysis on writing interventions ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? In Part One, Jenny Vo, Michele Morgan, and Joy Hamm shared wisdom gained from ...