Anne Golden is an Emeritus Professor of Second Language Acquisition at MultiLing, the University of Oslo, Norway.Lars Anders Kulbrandstad is an Emeritus Professor of Norwegian at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and a Senior Professor of Swedish as a Second Language at Karlstad University, Sweden.Lawrence Jun Zhang is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

This thought-provoking book is truly crossing borders in its themes, locations, and researcher profiles. It shows convincingly the range and span of the linguistic and social issues that writers from diverse backgrounds face when entering new contexts and facing new circumstances and genres. A must-read for all those teaching and evaluating writing.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsPreface Chapter 1. Anne Golden and Lars Anders Kulbrandstad: Crossing BordersChapter 2. Anne Golden and Lars Anders Kulbrandstad: When Errors Are CorrectedChapter 3. Rosmawati: Writing Academically in English as a Second Language: The Case of Syntactic ConstructionsChapter 4. Zhihui Fang and Guofang Li: Writing in School Science for EAL Students: Linguistic Challenges and Pedagogical Response Chapter 5. Morena Botelho de Magalhães: Supporting EAL Writing Development in the Early Stages of the Doctorate: Candidates from the East Writing in the WestChapter 6. Kirsi Leskinen: Agency in L2 Academic Literacies: Immigrant Students’ Lived Experiences in FocusChapter 7. Jihua Dong: Constructing Persuasion: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Chinese and English Student WritingsChapter 8. Lawrence Jun Zhang: Crossing Literacy Borders through Writing: Transformational Apprenticeship and Repositioning of EAL LearnersIndex

Anne Golden is an Emeritus Professor of Second Language Acquisition at MultiLing, the University of Oslo, Norway.Lars Anders Kulbrandstad is an Emeritus Professor of Norwegian at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and a Senior Professor of Swedish as a Second Language at Karlstad University, Sweden.Lawrence Jun Zhang is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

This thought-provoking book is truly crossing borders in its themes, locations, and researcher profiles. It shows convincingly the range and span of the linguistic and social issues that writers from diverse backgrounds face when entering new contexts and facing new circumstances and genres. A must-read for all those teaching and evaluating writing.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsPreface Chapter 1. Anne Golden and Lars Anders Kulbrandstad: Crossing BordersChapter 2. Anne Golden and Lars Anders Kulbrandstad: When Errors Are CorrectedChapter 3. Rosmawati: Writing Academically in English as a Second Language: The Case of Syntactic ConstructionsChapter 4. Zhihui Fang and Guofang Li: Writing in School Science for EAL Students: Linguistic Challenges and Pedagogical Response Chapter 5. Morena Botelho de Magalhães: Supporting EAL Writing Development in the Early Stages of the Doctorate: Candidates from the East Writing in the WestChapter 6. Kirsi Leskinen: Agency in L2 Academic Literacies: Immigrant Students’ Lived Experiences in FocusChapter 7. Jihua Dong: Constructing Persuasion: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Chinese and English Student WritingsChapter 8. Lawrence Jun Zhang: Crossing Literacy Borders through Writing: Transformational Apprenticeship and Repositioning of EAL LearnersIndex