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Serving Generation 1.5 Learners in the University Writing Center
Author(s) -
Thonus Terese
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
tesol journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.468
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1949-3533
pISSN - 1056-7941
DOI - 10.1002/j.1949-3533.2003.tb00115.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , writing center , center (category theory) , state (computer science) , computer science , programming language , chemistry , crystallography
S writers attending U.S. colleges and universities generally fall into one of three groups: 1. EFL writers who were educated in their mother tongue (L1) and are learning English as their L2 (often referred to as foreign or international students) 2. ESL writers who are recent immigrants to the United States, often with educational backgrounds in their L1 3. Generation 1.5 writers who are long-term U.S. residents and English learners fluent in spoken English. Harklau, Losey, and Siegal (1999), in their book, titled Generation 1.5 Meets College Composition: Issues in the Teaching of Writing to U.S.-Educated Learners of English, describe the third group as follows: