Dear all, 
I am collaborating on a paper, "Code-switching in English Language Learning 
contexts" with Connie Weaver for her Heinemann collection, *Grammar to 
Enrich and Enhance Writing.*  While I can handle examples of transfer from 
vernacular speaking students community grammar into school writing, we're 
looking for examples of the kinds of grammar "errors" that English Language 
Learners make as they are learning to write in Standard English.

So, to that end, does anyone have examples of teachers teaching editing 
(ideally "code-switching," but not necessarily) to ELL students--student 
before-and-after samples, with ideally a paragraph or so by the teacher, 
explaining what he or she did to help the student(s) move from the unedited 
draft to the final one. 

Here, we are focusing on GRAMMATICAL issues, or morphological ones (word 
endings, etc).

We would love to be able to include actual samples of ELL student writing 
showing the kinds of developmental grammar, word-structure patterns they go 
through on the way to commanding Standard English.

Thx for your help,
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thx,

rebecca wheeler



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Rebecca S. Wheeler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English Language and Literacy
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, VA 23606
 
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