1st Edition
The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language
Foreword
Chapter 1 Introduction to diagnosing SFL writing
Chapter 2 The development of writing ability
Chapter 3 The cognitive basis of writing ability with a special reference to SFL writing
Chapter 4 How writing ability can be diagnosed
Chapter 5 Characteristics of tasks designed to diagnose writing
Chapter 6 Diagnosing the writing process
Chapter 7 Analyzing writing products by rating them
Chapter 8 Automated analysis of writing
Chapter 9 The role of feedback in diagnosing SFL writing ability
Chapter 10 Conclusions and ways forward
References
Index
Biography
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.
