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Horning, Alice Silverberg was born on August 7, 1950.
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Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning’s new comprehensive theory about basic writers. Horning explores the theory of writing acquisition in detail. Her examination of spoken and written language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a separate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features. She proposes that basic writers learn to write as other learners master a second language because for them, academic written English is a whole new language. She explores the many connections to be found in second language acquisition research to the teaching and learning of writing and gives special attention to the interlanguage hypothesis, pidginization theory, and the Monitor theory. She also addresses the role of affective factors (feelings, attitudes, emotions, and motivation) in the success or failure of writing students.
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This book reviews research in linguistics, psychology, reading and writing, and brings this work to bear on the problem of readable writing. The research supports the theory that two factors in text are crucial to its readable quality: psycholinguistic redundancy and cohesion. The book also reports the results of three empirical studies and a case study that further illustrates this theory. The findings have important theoretical and practical implications because they shed light on the nature of reading and writing processes from both linguistic and psychological perspectives, and suggest practical approaches to the production and comprehension of readable writing. The book also draws on research in second language acquisition and is pertinent to readable writing in both first and second languages.
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rhetoric and linguistics educator
Horning, Alice Silverberg was born on August 7, 1950.
Bachelor in English, Boston University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Michigan State University, 1977.
Assistant professor Wayne State University, Detroit, 1974—1982, Oakland University, Rochester, 1982—1986, associate professor, 1986—1994, professor, since 1994, director Rhetoric Program, since 1998. Consultant reader Modern Language Journal, since 1994, Journal Psychological Type, 1997—2005, Writing Program Administration Journal, since 2004.
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Member National Council Teachers English, Conference on College Composition and Communications, American Association for Applied Linguistics, Association for Psychological Type, Michigan Linguistic Society, Council Writing Program Administrators.