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ACADEMIC WRITING AND GENERATION 1.5: PEDAGOGICAL GOALS AND INSTRUCTIONAL ISSUES IN THE COLLEGE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM

Generation 1.5 students are U.S. educated English learners. Often they have limited proficiency in their first language and at the same time have not acquired the academic English necessary for the cognitive and linguistic demands of discipline-specific academic classes in English language institutions of higher learning. This paper addresses some of the unique needs of Generation 1.5 students in the area of academic writing and examines some of the issues college writing teachers must face in terms of providing these students with pedagogically sound, and appropriate and effective writing instruction.