Developing International EFL/ESL Scholarly Writers

Foreword

This book contributes to some significant shifts in the way we theorize and teach academic writing for multilingual students. Donna Bain Butler has combined her research expertise and teaching experience effectively to show how both can fruitfully inform each other to develop more empowering pedagogies for multilingual students.

Butler’s focus on strategies helps resolve some unhealthy divisions in teaching academic writing. A focus on the forms and conventions of academic discourses and writing is still a pragmatic way to handle the needs of multilingual students for many teachers and scholars. Among its many limitations is the fact that it leads to a normative orientation, ignoring the discourses and values students bring from their ...