Promoting Learning Transfer in an ESL College Composition Course: a Proposed Course University

Location

Grissom Hall, Room 133

Start Date

6-3-2016 11:15 AM

End Date

6-3-2016 11:45 AM

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This paper examines what it means to design a writing course that promotes learning transfer. Based on a thorough literature review of writing transfer research, it proposes a transfer-enhanced writing course for international students and argues that genre-based pedagogy is particularly suitable for such a writing course.

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Promoting Learning Transfer in an ESL College Composition Course: a Proposed Course University

Grissom Hall, Room 133

This paper examines what it means to design a writing course that promotes learning transfer. Based on a thorough literature review of writing transfer research, it proposes a transfer-enhanced writing course for international students and argues that genre-based pedagogy is particularly suitable for such a writing course.