Bibliography on L2 Writing

L2 Writing Tasks/Prompts

Hamp-Lyons, L. (1996). The challenges of second-language writing assessment. In M. White & W. Lutz & S. Kamusikiri (Eds.), Assessment of writing: Politics, policies, and practices (pp. 226-240). New York: Modern Language Association.

Hamp-Lyons, L., & Kroll, B. (1996). Issues in ESL writing assessment: An overview. College ESL, 6(1), 52-72.

Hamp-Lyons, L., & Mathias, S. (1994). Examining expert judgments of task difficulty on essay tests. Journal of Second Language Writing, 3(1), 49-68.

Kroll, B., & Reid, J. (1994). Guidelines for designing writing prompts: Clarifications, caveats, and cautions. Journal of Second Language Writing, 3(3), 231-255.

Osburne, A. G., & Mulling, S. (1994). Essay Prompts and the ESOL Student. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 5(1), 103-114.

Peyton, J. K., Staton, J., Richardson, G., & Wolfram, W. (1993). The influence of writing task on ESL students' written production. In J. K. Peyton & J. Staton (Eds.), Dialogue journals in the multilingual classroom: Building fluency and writing skills through written interaction (pp. 196-221). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Reid, J., & Kroll, B. (1994). Designing and assessing effective classroom assignments for NES and ESL students. Journal of Second Language Writing, 4(1), 17-41.

Robinson, P. (1995). Task Complexity and Second Language Narrative Discourse. Language Learning, 45(1), 99-140.

Way, D. P. (1998). Writing in the secondary foreign language classroom: The effects of prompts and tasks on the writing samples of novice learners of French as a foreign language. Dissertation Abstracts International, 59(5), 1552A.