Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language

Ari Huhta is Professor of Language Assessment at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.Claudia Harsch is Professor of Research into Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment at the University of Bremen, and the director of the Languages Centre of the Universities in the Land Bremen, Germany.Dmitri Leontjev is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.Lea Nieminen is a research coordinator at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• ForewordChapter 1 Introduction to diagnosing SFL writingChapter 2 The development of writing abilityChapter 3 The cognitive basis of writing ability with a special reference to SFL writingChapter 4 How writing ability can be diagnosedChapter 5 Characteristics of tasks designed to diagnose writingChapter 6 Diagnosing the writing processChapter 7 Analyzing writing products by rating themChapter 8 Automated analysis of writingChapter 9 The role of feedback in diagnosing SFL writing abilityChapter 10 Conclusions and ways forwardReferencesIndex