Alan Hirvela

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan Hirvela is involved.

Title

Biliterate Asian Students' Literacy Practices in North America

Edited by Youngjoo Yi and Alan Hirvela

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:1 (2009) 180 pp.

Articles

Hirvela, Alan 2011 Chapter 3. Writing to learn in content areas: Research insights Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language, Manchón, Rosa M. (ed.), pp. 37–59 | Article

This chapter discusses several studies of second language (L2) writers’ experiences using writing as a means of learning about content areas. Though some research of this kind has demonstrated success with writing to learn, collectively these studies suggest that using writing in this way is often… read more

Yi, Youngjoo and Alan Hirvela 2009 Composing in and out of school: Biliterate Asian students’ encounters with heritage and second language literacy Biliterate Asian Students' Literacy Practices in North America, Yi, Youngjoo and Alan Hirvela (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article