This document provides an overview of the program for the SSLW 2010 conference on second language writing held at the University of Murcia in Spain from May 20-22. The conference featured plenary sessions, special sessions, invited colloquia, and presentations organized around 11 strands of second language writing research. Presentations explored topics such as academic writing, writing assessment, genre, feedback, and connections between writing and disciplines.

1. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
STRANDS:
ASS Assessment
ACW Academic Writing
CMW Computer-mediated Writing
EC Error and Error Correction
FEED Feedback
FLW Foreign Language Writing
PED Pedagogy
RES Research Methodology
SLA Second Language Acquisition
TEXT Textual Analyses
WFS Writing from Sources
WPR Writing Processes
Wednesday 19th, afternoon
Sala Jorge Guillén (Facultad de Letras)
15.30-19.30
Registration
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2. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Thursday 20th, morning
Paraninfo Hall
8.00-19.30
Registration
Paraninfo
8.30
Official opening
Paraninfo
9.00-
9.55
Plenary 1: Tony Silva
The Disciplinary Development of Second Language Writing Studies
9.55-
10.25
Coffee break
Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Dcho.)
Paraninfo CMW FEED PED ACW ASS
Chair: Rea Chair: Dyson Chair: Turner Chair: Curry Chair: Panahi
Lam
Hernández-García Furneaux
Effects of two portfolio
Corpora-research benefits Bitchener Breeze Mastering academic writing within
Special 10.30
for L2 writing: error Supervisor feedback in the Teaching legal writing: voice, one discipline in one year: from ‘in
assessment approaches on
Session: 11.00 writing processes and
analysis and the use of thesis-writing process attitude, value the middle of nowhere’ to ‘I can
FL writing: products of EFL pre-university
grammar checkers do anything!’
students
Reflections on
Theory and O'Brien
Nurmukhamedov & Gimenez
ESL student writers’ Rouillon
Research Racelis Crossing boundaries in L2
11.05 experiences with written Raters' assessment
Teacher, please read! academic writing: Issues of
11.35 feedback received on discourses and talks: A
Convener: Rosa Learners’ email writing disciplinarity, authority, and
academic coursework on a qualitative approach
M. Manchón behavior identity in health sciences
taught masters course
Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Dcho.)
10-30-
Presenters: CMW FEED PED ACW ASS
13.00 Chair: Naves Chair: Bitchener Chair: Breeze Chair: Nanwani Chair: Baker
Melinda 11.40
Yang
Marín-Pérez & Rea-Rizzo Lillis
Reichelt 12.10 Nas Assessing student’s What’s locality got to do with Panahi & Birjandi
Affordance and
Rosa Manchón Effects of teacher and peer awareness on the writing disciplinarity? The politics of Dynamic assessment of ESL
orchestration in the
Robert feedback on revision process in the Bologna location in professional academic writing
design of English blogs
process framework. text production and evaluation
DeKeyser
Tunceren Neumann Hwang Chen
Graeme Porte Bunce
Effects of intentional Information management A case study of the influence Determining proficiency in
12.15 Discipline-specific skills for writing
academic vocabulary and grammar ssessment: of freewriting on writing second language writing
12.45 in literature and linguistics: a
study on L2 writers and What do teachers attend to fluency and confidence of EFL research
corpus study
writing in L2 writing? college-level students
Paraninfo
13.05-
14.00
Plenary 2: Alister Cumming
Why Does Second-Language Writing have to Be so Complicated?
Lunch
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3. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Thursday 20th, afternoon
Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler
Paraninfo Hemiciclo FEED PED SLA
Chair: Neumann Chair: Coleman Núñez Chair: Cabrejas
Cheng Plumlee Basterrechea & García-Mayo
Invited Invited 15.30- Teacher’s and students’ perceptions Representation of disciplinary Collaborative writing and noticing in
Colloquium: Colloquium : 16.00 of onlinepPeer review: A case study in knowledge by graduate student an EFL setting: The facilitative role of
Writing from Research in L2 an EFL writing class in Taiwan writers in L2 English a pushed output task
Sources Writing in CLIL Santos & López-Serrano
(Content and Cimasko
El-ebyary & Windeatt Learning, noticing, and the
Conveners: Language 16.05- From public to pedagogical: Modifying
The impact of computer-based processing of written feedback: The
Charlene Polio & Integrated 16.35 feedback on students’ written work
genres for the classroom
differential effect of error correction
Ling Shi Learning) and reformulation
Contexts Across
Presenters: Europe Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler
Diane Pecorari FEED PED SLA
15.30- Bojana Petric Convener: Chair: Johnson Chair: Furneaux Chair: Yan Zhang
18.00 Charlene Polio Rachel Whittaker Jingjing Dyson
Turner
Ling Shi Chinese EFL students’ strategies in How can SLA theory clarify the debate
16.40- Blurred boundaries: working with
providing computer-mediated peer about the effectiveness of corrective
Discussant:
17.10 feedback in peer assessment activity
others' words in the age of global
feedback? - A ‘teachability’ study of
Presenters: Englishes
Mary Jane Curry Debbie Coetzee- in L2 writing classroom: a case study research questions
Lachmann
Lena Heine
Heini-Marja Maerlein Li
17.15-
Järvinen CALL for a new best practice for An empirical Study of "writing-reading
Yolanda Ruiz de
17-45 feedback on student compositions comparison" in L2 writing classes
Zarobe
Rachel Whittaker
18.00-
Coffee break
18-25
Paraninfo
18.30-
Plenary 3: Dwight Atkinson
19.25
Understanding the Social and the Cultural in Second Language Writing
19.30 Welcome reception (sponsored by John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter and Multilingual Matters)
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4. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Friday 21st, morning
Paraninfo Hall
8.00- 19.30 Registration
Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Derecho)
Paraninfo FLW PED EC SLA WFS
Chair: Angel-Villegas Chair: Lillis Chair: Plumlee Chair: Xiao Chair: Pecorari
Special Session: Ahern Beckett & Nam Baerlocher Rocha Lucha Cuadros & Díaz Harwood
Genres in Collaborative story Korean ESL graduate Lexical errors and The incidence of Focus Demystifying the rhetorical
Interntional writing in teacher students learning to typological proximity in on Form in written functions of academic
8.15-
Contexts education: write in their disciplines: written productions productions citation for postgraduate
8.45 schoolchildren and Where and how? second-language writers:
student teachers research-based teaching
communicating in EFL materials
Convener: Ann Jiménez-Catalán, Saenkhum Johnson Zhang, Zhang & Gong Petric & Harwood
Johns Agustín-Llach & Sullivan Disciplinary faculty Which Annoys” raters Bilingual students’ use They want us to be critical’:
Overall structure and members’ and ESL more? Second language of writing strategies for An interview-based study of
8.15- Presenters: 8.50- lexical cohesion in a students’ views on writing errors or non- text production in ESL the citing behaviour of a
10.00 9.20 corpus of letters by disciplinary and standard dialect writing successful second-language
Ann Johns adolescent Spanish EFL academic writing: errors? writer
Guillaume Gentil learners Bridging the gap across
disciplines
Natasha
Neff, Bunce, Rica, Curry Evans, Hartshorn & Allen Pidchamook Cheung
Artemeva Dafouz & Genís What engineers do: Written ccorrective Thai EFL writers’ writing Visible and occluded citation
Jana Fox Teaching argumentation: Comparing the practices feedback: Do they? How strategies: A in master’s dissertations:
9.25-
Using form/function of writing for publication do they? And why? sociocultural perspective The case of Singapore
9.55 descriptors in an EFL with official sources of
university academic advice
context
Paraninfo
10.05- Plenary 4: Lourdes Ortega
11.00
Exploring the Interfaces between Second Language Writing and Second Language Acquisition
11.00-
Coffee break
11.25
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5. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Friday 21st, morning
Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Derecho)
Paraninfo FLW PED RES WPR WFS
Chair: Reichelt Chair: Wetzl Chair: Neff Chair: Xiao Chair: Cheung
Special Session : Zhang, Zhang, Gong &
Gunnarsson
Reynolds Reiman, Mustonen & Text production in L2
Kiss Meta-knowledge McCulloch
Publishing Seilonen French and the writer’s
Investigating the formation and variation The use of source
Workshop 11.30- Methodological aspects on concentration on low
relationship between in a global English material in academic
12.00 bilingual students’ self-
studying L2 writing in level linguistic aspects
writing and its effect on
university different domains of during the formulation
Presenters: regulated learning and argumentation
language process: results from a
Ann Corney composition quality
longitudinal study
(Elsevier) Wette
Leih Urzua-Beltran Kim
Nicolás-Conesa Developing L2 students’
Portfolio design for L2 Theoretical and Reading aloud for
Ilona Leki & Rosa 12.00- A comparative study of ability to write using
academic literacy: pedagogical uses of a revision in L2 writing:
Manchón (Journal 12.30 EFL learners’ and
integrating learning context-specific learner Insights gained from
sources: Progress in and
of Second teachers’ writing goals. beyond a university-level
models corpus of academic writing introspective data
Language unit of instruction
11.30- Writing))
Poolpoem Xiao Klitgård, Pecorari,
13.00 Factors that impede L2 Text, cognition, and McMillion & Shaw
Lourdes Ortega writing: A study of EFL context: Toward a Summary, paraphrase
(Language contexts in Thailand unifying hypothesized and plagiarism in
Learning) model of second academic writing
language writing
Graeme Porte 12.30-
(Language 13.00
Teaching)
Christine
Casanave
Ann Johns
Paul Kei Matsuda
Paraninfo
13.05-
Plenary 5: Mark Torrance
14.00
Cognitive Processes in Text Production – What is Planned When?
Lunch
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6. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Friday 21st, afternoon
Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler
Paraninfo Hemiciclo PED FLW SLA
Chair: Jiménez-Catalán Chair: Urzúa-Beltrán Chair: Bradford
Chandrasegaran Celaya Cabrejas-Peñuelas
Invited Special Session: Exploring the use of rhetorical From simple sentences to L1 use while writing in the L2: An
Colloquium : L2 15.30- move analysis as a pedagogical subordination? The empirical study of two Spanish
Writers as L2 L2 Writing Assessment 16.00 tool for academic writing development of syntactic students of various proficiency levels
patterns in a longitudinal study
Learners Research of EFL writing
Rabbani & Masoodi Naves Cho
Convener: Conscious self-editors: a by- What learners’ EFL Multiple Bi-directional rhetorical transfer in the
John Norris product of peer review tasks Writing Profiles can tell us about L1 and L2 writing of Korean ESL and
16.05-
the long-term effects of an early EFL writer
16.35 start on writing performance
Convener: Presenters: and overall proficiency in a FL
Heidi Byrnes Beverly Baker context.
Anne Nebel Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler
Icy Lee PED FLW SLA
15.30- Chair: Cohen Chair: Poolpoem Chair: Bradford
Presenters:
18.00 Xiao Muñoz Breuer
Meg Gebhard The Impact of building formal EFL writing development: The Influence of L1 on FL academic
Heidi Byrnes schemata on ESL writing validity of quantitative language writing
JoAnne Neff performance: A focus on second measures and developmental
Kerry Kephart 16.40- sentence in paragraph interpretations
17.10 coherence
RES
Chair: Bradford
Janssen, Angel-Villegas & Davis Zhang Casanave
Academic writing curricular A corpus-based study of Distancing: Issues in research writing
17.15- development: A case study from adversative conjunctives: How when informants and researchers do
17.45 one Colombian university PhD Chinese EFL learners signal not share languages
level academic English course counter-expectations in writing
series
18.00-
Coffee break
18.25
Paraninfo
18.30-
Plenary 6: Paul Kei Matsuda
19.30
The Disciplinary Division of Labor: A Decade Later
21.00 Conference dinner
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7. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Saturday 22nd, morning
Paraninfo Hall
8.00-13.30 Registration
Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Aula 1.16
Paraninfo FLW ACW TEXT CMW PED
Chair: Celaya Chair: Saenkhum Chair: Hawes Chair: Turceren Chair: Wald
Special Session : Bradford & McCulloch Salski Carrió-Pastor Dykstra Cohen & Leoni
How well do we The "I hope" and the Assertiveness as a Hybrid Habits: the Dual language identity
8.15- prepare our L2 writers "I'm scared" of writing marker of language classroom, the Internet, texts: Making connections
Written corrective 8.45
feedback: Expanding for studying abroad? a BA dissertation variation and EFL students’ between the known and
research-based writing the unknown
the Research Agenda.
Sasaki Siczek & Knight Hijikata Ho Taylor
Japanese students L2 writers: Developing The use of the The Impacts of face-to- Indigenous parents write
learning to write in skills to join the personal pronoun “it” face and computer- identity texts as counter-
Conveners: 8.50- English: A longitudinal university literacy in academic essays mediated peer review on narratives
8.15- Liz Murphy & Julio Roca 9.20 analysis of the effects community written by Japanese Taiwanese EFL learners’
10.00 of study-abroad EFL master’s students writing quality and
Presenters: experiences revisions
Llanes & Serrano Thongrin Olmos Hu & Wu Wetzl
Neomi Storch The impact of the Writing for Crossing disciplinary Building cohesion ties in Expressing multicultural
Anthony Bruton study abroad publications: The boundaries: Voice in scientific academic identity through language:
Charlene Polio 9.25-
experience on the issues and stumbling sciences and writing through IWiLL The Romanian bloggers’
9.55 development of blocks for periphery engineering RA EFL discourse
written performance researchers in writing
professional setting
Paraninfo
10.05-
Plenary 7: Gert Rijlaardsdam
11.00
L1-L2 Writing Processes, Text Quality and Learner Characteristics: Empirical Studies
11.00-
Coffee break
11.25
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8. SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Saturday 22nd, morning
Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler
Paraninfo FLW ACW TEXT PED (pannel)
Chair: Marín Chair: Salski Chair: Carrió-Pastor Chair: Giménez
LANGUAGE LEARNING Byrne Chang Janssen, Nausa-Triana & Soto-
ROUND TABLE: EFL writing in a for profit Revisiting the Legitimacy of Quintero
11.30- language school Literacies: Whose Voices? Spanish (L1) and English (L2)
12.00 NNES Learners’ Voices in Writing: Qualitatively and
Their Writings Quantitatively Analyzing Content
Cross-Pollinations in and Organization
L2 Writing Research Roberge,
Rosado & Gallego Coleman Núnez Ono Wald &
Across Continents Writing expository discourse Culture Learning through L2 A comparison of the structure of Losey
in an L2: the nonnative Reflective Writing L2 summaries written by
attainment of a detached Japanese and Taiwanese
12.00- stance postgraduate students Academic writing for
Convener: Ilona Leki 12.30 linguistically and culturally
diverse student populations
Presenters:
11.30-
Alister Cumming Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero
13. 30
Icy Lee FLW ACW TEXT
Paul Kei Matsuda Chair: Rabbani Chair: Olmos Chair: Carrió-Pastor
Lourdes Ortega Tarnanen & Mäntylä Hawes Fernandez-Toledo
Charlene Polio Development of cohesion Theme-Rheme Strategies for Use of false cognates in the
12.30-
Gert Rijlaarsdam and coherence in second Student Writing in L2 writing of ESAP students
13.00 language texts by young
Julio Roca de Larios
Miyuki Sasaki learners
Toledo, Forns & Perera Nanwani
The elaboration of the Challenges lived by Colombian
13.00- information in expository university students in
13-30 written texts in Spanish L2 developing academic writing
based on the Anglo-American
paradigm.
Paraninfo
13.35
Closing remarks
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