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    The ELL Writer: Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom

    By Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

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    “By respecting the intelligence of multilingual writers, this book helps teachers capitalize on the resources those students bring into the classroom. District secondary curriculum coordinators should make sure every teacher in every discipline has this book, and every university course about secondary teaching should require it.”

    —Randy Bomer, University of Texas at Austin


    This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum.The ELL Writerexpands the current conversation on the literacy needs of adolescent English learners by focusing on their writing approaches, their texts, and their needs as student writers. Vivid portraits look at tangible moments within these students’ lives that depict not only the difficulties but also the possibilities that they bring with them into the classroom. The case studies are complemented by findings from current research studies by second-language writing specialists that will inform today’s classroom teachers.


    Book Features:



    • Activities, writing prompts, and teaching tips to support ELL learning in mainstream classes.

    • Personal stories and voices of ELL writers, along with examples of student writing.

    • A focus on teacher responses, revision strategies, and assignment design.

    • Clear connections between current research, student experiences, and the classroom.


    Christina Ortmeier-Hooperis an assistant professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTeachers College Press
    Release dateMay 12, 2013
    ISBN9780807771785
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    The ELL Writer: Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom
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    Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

    Christina Ortmeier-Hooper (Ph.D., University of New Hampshire) is an associate professor of English and incoming Director of the NH Literacy Institutes. She has served as the Director of Composition for the first-year writing program, and she is a leader of the UNH School-University Dialogues on College-Readiness and Writing initiative. She began her teaching career as an English language arts and ESL teacher in the public schools, and her research areas continued to reflect her investment in school-university collaborations, writing teacher education, and immigrant adolescent literacy. At UNH, Ortmeier-Hooper teaches in the undergraduate writing program (first-year writing, introduction to creative non-fiction) and in the English graduate program. At the graduate level, she has taught courses in research methods in composition, second language (L2) writing, literacy and identity, sheltered instruction, the teaching of writing, and composition theory. She has served as chair of the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing and is the founding chair of the TESOL Second Language Writing Interest Section.  Ortmeier-Hooper has edited four collections focused on research in second language writing, including Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers: Transitions from High School to College (Routledge, 2017 with Todd Ruecker), Reinventing Identities in Second Language Writing (NCTE Press, 2010 with Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Gwen Gray Schwartz) and The Politics of Second Language Writing: The Search for a Promised Land (Parlor Press, 2006 with co-editors Paul Kei Matsuda and Xiaoye You). Her work has also been published in English Journal, TESOL Journal, the Journal of Second Language Writing, and College Composition and Communication. Her books include The ELL Writer:  Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Writing Across Language and Culture (National Council of Teachers, 2017).

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      One of the many aspects of this book that makes it so valuable is the word "writer" in its title, for that one simple word speaks volumes about the author’s teaching philosophy. Among the dozens of useful ideas in the *The ELL Writer* is the notion that, in order for English language learners to become proficient in English, they must see themselves as writers—and we, as their teachers, must demonstrate that we value the unique linguistic and cultural assets that they bring to the classroom and to their writing.Ortmeier-Hooper foregrounds the power of affect in the teaching of writing, and her pedagogy reflects the high value she places on student self-efficacy. Throughout this relatively slim book (how did she pack so much wisdom and practice into just 197 pages?), we come to know the ELL writers who participated in Ortmeier-Hooper’s research; she includes biographical sketches of each participant, thus illustrating the rich diversity that ELL students bring to their writing. This technique invests her scholarship with power and humanity.Perhaps even more importantly, Ortmeier-Hooper explains her pedagogy with a sense of clarity and fluency rarely seen in scholarly discourse. Her ideas are complex and challenging yet sensible—and they are effective enough to be used with all writers, not just ELL writers. In addition to demystifying many of the hurdles of teaching writing to ELL students, Ortmeier-Hooper offers a wealth of practical strategies that will succeed in any writing class. Informed by both the process model of writing and a munificent sense of empathy for students, this book should become a mainstay of every writing instructor’s professional library.