L1 COMPOSITION AND L2 WRITING VIEWPOINTS : PEDAGOGICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL STANCES DEVELOPED THROUGH THEORY

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This article focuses on the theoretical foundations that need to be explored and understood for a better insight into what is involved in L2 writing.The theories of cognitivism, expressivism, social constructionism, interactivism and culturism that have influenced the viewpoints of instructors and pedagogy in L2 writing are surveyed.These viewpoints vary according to the relative importance placed on the essential composition elements of writer, reader, reality and language. Many of these viewpoints themselves emerged from L1 composition theory and were often demonstrated in the L2 writing setting by research in that context.Theorists, researchers, teachers and learners have differed greatly in regard to the optimal viewpoint, and a single perspective is difficult to achieve. However, all acknowledge that an understanding of the essential composition elements must be taken into account and any one of them cannot be ignored totally. These viewpoints may have changed due to circumstances and particular historical periods and might even overlap in certain situations. Nevertheless, all the pedagogical and ideological viewpoints surveyed can still be found in the modern L2 writing classroom and it is hoped an examination of them will give a foundation for better understanding of different contexts, attitudes and motivations in L2 writing.
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