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Tutoring ESL Students:
Issues and Options
Harris & Silva

  

Reassessing the Proofreading
Trap:  ESL Tutoring and Writing
Instruction
Myers

    
             
    Links about tutoring strategies and background information:

(a) "top ten tips" page along with the "just check my grammar" page linked from it. http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/esltutoringtips.html

(b) "Reading an ESL Writer's Text" (Paul Kei Matsuda)
http://matsuda.jslw.org/abstracts/pdf/bruce2004.pdf

(c) "Basic Writing and Second Language Writers:  Towards an Inclusive Definition" (Paul Kei Matsuda)
http://matsuda.jslw.org/abstracts/pdf/jbw2003.pdf

(d) Contrastive Rhetoric in Context:  A Dynamic Model of L2 Writing
http://matsuda.jslw.org/abstracts/pdf/jslw1997.pdf

 Position Statement:

CCCC Statement on Second-Language Writing and Writers
http://matsuda.jslw.org/abstracts/ccc2001.html		 Links with content to use in tutoring:

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) materials for ESL students
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/678/01/

Classified and annotated links to sites with various composition materials
 http://ressourcescla.univfcomte.fr/english/sites/academic.htm

University of Hertfordshire English for Academic Purposes composition materials
 http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

Victoria University of Wellington composition materials
 http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/

Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English
 http://www.eslbee.com/

Bedford/St Martins
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx
Dartmouth Writing Program - ESL:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/special/esl.shtml

    
      Useful books:

 A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, Second Edition by Ben Rafoth

ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors by Shanti Bruce and Ben Rafoth