And what classroom and self-study tasks would you recommend to deal with these challenges? I would appreciate answers that deal with any of the following areas:
- Different rhetorical patterns and discourse styles.
- Persistent grammatical or lexical errors that may on occasions impede comprehension or distract the reader.
-Frequent non-impeding, "non-distracting" errors which may lead to a negative evaluation of the writer's language level.
- Poor L1(Spanish) writing habits which may transfer to the L2 (English). For example, run-on sentences are frowned on in both English and Spanish, but tend to be used far more by Spanish writers. The transfer of this vice to English may have a stigmatizing effect.
According to my own experience I can recommend all qualified tools and resources which offers the net: Using a service like Linguee or to participate in a Babble course, important is the communication with others to train the skill und refine expression.
Thank you Mahmood and Hein for your answers.
Mahmood, you are right to intimate that I should have made clear why my students will need to develop the skill of academic writing. From the information that I have at the moment, it seems that they will need this skill for two main purposes: for carrying out all or part of a course of study in English, either in Spain or abroad, and/or for publication purposes.
Hein, Linguee can certainly be an aid for students in some disciplines. However, learners will first need to learn how to use it.
I am particularly interested in answers which relate to the difficulties faced by Spanish L1 learners when trying to write academic English.
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