1st Edition

Expertise in Second Language Writing Instruction Conceptual and Empirical Understandings

Edited By Alan Hirvela, Diane D. Belcher Copyright 2025
270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Despite growing interest in L2 writing teachers, there is a dearth of published works that specifically delve into the nuances of the development of L2 writing teacher expertise. Informed by relevant foundational theory and empirical research, this book addresses this crucial gap in the understanding of expertise in L2 writing instruction. This book offers a holistic analysis of L2 writing... Read more

Foreword

Amy B.M. Tsui

 

1      Introduction: The evolving quest to understand L2 writing teacher expertise

Alan Hirvela and Diane D. Belcher

 

PART 1 

Accounts of L2 Writing Teacher Expertise Learning Experiences

2      Expertise as collaborative practice

Ken Hyland

 

3      Teacher inquiry in ESOL teacher education: Examining how teachers develop L2 writing   

instruction expertise

Amanda K. Kibler, April S. Salerno, Elena Andrei

 

4      A collaborative examination of an L2 writing teacher’s expertise learning across teaching

contexts

Dorothy Worden-Chambers and Emory Price

 

5      Reframing L2 writing teacher expertise to account for ongoing professionalization: Toward a sustainable model of L2 writing teacher education

Lisya Seloni

 

6      The influence of language learning and writing experiences on L2 writing teacher expertise

Nur Yiğitoğlu Aptoula and Diane D. Belcher

 

7      Reflections on doctoral dissertation writing, mentoring, and advising as a form of expertise

Christine Pearson Casanave

 

 

PART 2

Classroom-based Studies of Teacher Expertise Learning

8      From routine expertise to adaptive expertise in L2 writing instruction: A case study of an

EFL teacher at a Japanese university

Mayumi Asaba

 

9      Instructional expertise in assessing digital multimodal composing in a second language:

Conceptual frameworks and teachers’ perspectives

Christoph A. Hafner and Wing Yee Jenifer Ho

 

10   A study of expertise in instructional delivery while teaching argumentative writing in an

American ESL composition program

Zhenjie Weng

 

11   Navigating expertise in synthesis writing instruction: The role of task representation

Ruilan Zhao and Alan Hirvela

 

Afterword: Re‑visiting Second Language Writing Teacher Expertise

Icy Lee

Biography

Alan Hirvela is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University. He is a former co-editor of TESOL Quarterly and both assistant editor and review editor of English for Specific Purposes. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals.

Diane D. Belcher is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA, USA) and a former co-editor of the journals English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly.