Contents: P.K. Matsuda, T. Silva, Introduction. Essays.A. Pincas, Structural Linguistics and Systematic Composition Teaching to Students of English as a Foreign Language (1962). R.B. Kaplan, Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-Cultural Education (1966). V. Zamel, Teaching Composition in the ESL Classroom: What We Can Learn From Research in the Teaching of English (1976). A. Raimes, What Unskilled ESL Students Do as They Write: A Classroom Study of Composing (1985). J. Hinds, Reader-Writer Responsibility: A New Typology (1987). U. Connor, Research Frontiers in Writing Analysis (1988). R. Spack, Initiating ESL Students Into the Academic Discourse Community: How Far Should We Go (1988)? D. Horowitz, Fiction and Nonfiction in the ESL/EFL Classroom: Does the Difference Make a Difference (1990)? A.M. Johns, Interpreting an English Competency Examination: The Frustrations of an ESL Science Student (1991). J.G. Carson, Becoming Biliterate: First Language Influences (1992). T. Santos, Ideology in Composition: L1 and ESL (1992). I. Leki, Reciprocal Themes in ESL Reading and Writing (1993). T. Silva, Toward an Understanding of the Distinct Nature of L2 Writing: The ESL Research and Its Implications (1993). J. Reid, Responding to ESL Students' Texts: The Myth of Appropriation (1994). L. Hamp-Lyons, B. Kroll, Issues in ESL Writing Assessment: An Overview (1996). P.K. Matsuda, Contrastive Rhetoric in Context: A Dynamic Model of L2 Writing (1997).