Shayna Wood and Joy Smith
Spring 2012
Considerations for Working with ESL Students: A Bibliography
This bibliography includes sources that address issues ESL students face in the American
university setting. Some sources focus on concerns for the composition classroom, and some focus on
concerns for the writing center. In compiling this list, the presenters sought to introduce sources that
would complicate notions of ESL students and working with ESL students in the writing center.
Bean, Janet, Maryann Cucchiara, Robert Eddy, Peter Elbow, Rhonda Grego, Rich Haswell, Patricia
Irvine, Eileen Kennedy, Ellie Kutz, Al Lehner, and Paul Kei Matsuda. “Should We Invite
Students to Write in Home Languages? Complicating the Yes/No Debate.” Matsuda et al.
231-246. Print.
“CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers (2009 Update).” Matsuda et al. 10-19. Print.
Chiang, Yuet-Sim and Mary Schmida. “Language Identity and Language Ownership: Linguistic Conflicts
of First-Year University Writing Students.” Matsuda et al. 95-108. Print.
Harris, Muriel and Tony Silva. “Tutoring ESL Students: Issues and Options.” College
Composition and Communication 44.4 (Dec. 1993): 525-537. JSTOR. Web.
19 Sept. 2011.
Kiedaisch, Jean and Sue Dinitz. “Changing Notions of Difference in the Writing Center: The
Possibilities of Universal Design.” The Writing Center Journal 27.2 (2007): 39-59.
Academic OneFile. Web. 19 Sept. 2011.
Land Jr., Robert and Catherine Whitley. “Evaluating Second-Language Essays in Regular Composition
Classes: Toward a Pluralistic U.S. Rhetoric.” Matsuda et al. 330-338. Print.
Matsuda, Paul Kei. “Second Language Writing in the Twentieth-Century: A Situated Historical
Perspective.” Matsuda et al. 20-36. Print.
---, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, eds. Second-Language
Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston; New York: Bedford/ St.
Martin’s, 2011. Print.
Ramanathan, Vai and Dwight Atkinson. “Individualism, Academic Writing, and ESL Writers.” Matsuda
et al. 165-191. Print.
Reid, Joy and Barbara Kroll. “Designing and Assessing Effective Classroom Writing Assignments for
NES and ESL Students.” Matsuda et al. 266-289. Print.
“Resolution from ‘Students’ Right to Their Own Language’ and National Language Policy Statement of
CCCC.” Smitherman and Villanueva xv. Print.
Severino, Carol. “The Sociopolitical Implication of Response to Second-Language and Second-Dialect
Writing.” Matsuda et al. 339-356. Print.
Silva, Tony. “On Ethical Treatment of ESL Writers.” Matsuda et al. 160-164. Print.
Smitherman, Geneva. “The Historical Struggle for Language Rights in CCCC.” Smitherman and
Villanueva 7-39. Print.
--- and Victor Villanueva, eds. Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention
to Practice. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. Print.
---. “Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESL Students Across the Curriculum.”
Zawacki and Rogers 246-260. Print.
Zawacki, Terry Myers, Paul M. Rogers, eds. Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook.
Boston; New York: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2012. Print.