Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-year Composition Courses

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

9-2018

Keywords

Multilingual writers, College placement, First-year composition

Abstract

"Yet, as Tanita Saenkhum aptly explains in Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-year Composition Courses, an increasing number of multilingual students enrolling in U.S. colleges and universities each year has prompted first-year writing programs to adopt a more international perspective, an effort that has resulted in both progress and new challenges. The last few decades have witnessed the globalization of higher education, with U.S. universities establishing partnerships with international universities and even satellite campuses abroad, and an increasing number of international students have come to the U.S. to pursue undergraduate degrees. Even with a slowing down of this number last year, the 2017 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange revealed that more than one million international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities for a second year in a row (Institute of International Education, 2017). Together with U.S.-resident multilingual students, international multilingual students have begun to change the face of first-year composition."

Journal Title

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volume

41

First Page

71

Last Page

73

Book Title

Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-year Composition Courses

Editor

Saenkhum, Tanita, author

Publisher

Utah State University Press

City

Logan, UT

ISBN

1607325403

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2018.06.001

First Department

English

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