Writing Programs Worldwide - Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places, 2012a

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WHAT HAVE BEEN OUR INSTITUTION’S SUCCESSES AND
FAILURES IN TEACHING WRITING/STUDENT LITERACY?
Looking at the overall writing curriculum on the translation study programme,
it is fair to say that writing has become a central concern. It has to
be seen in the context of other innovations that needed to be introduced,
such as independent learning and research-based teaching. A special issue in
any translation programme is the presence of students with different mother
tongues as well as of bilingual students who speak several languages at a native
or near-native level. What has not yet been accomplished is a closer interrelation
of writing and multilingualism. At the moment, writing is still performed
separately in each language. Writing in L1 and L2 has still not been linked
with translating and multilingual publishing. The creation of such a learning
environment would be helpful not only to gain a better understanding of how
language-related literacies may be interconnected but also to develop new forms
of writing instruction.
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