{"title":"A cross-linguistic perspective on the relationship between syntactic complexity and Chinese L2 writing quality","authors":"Yuxin Hao , Sijia Guo , Shuai Bin , Haitao Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing studies have shown that when learners with different L1s learn the L2, their L2 syntactic complexity will show different differences due to the influence of different L1s. However, previous research mainly stays at the macro level of L1 as an influencing factor. In addition, no research has discussed the impact of L1 on the relationship between SC and L2 writing quality. Through a linear mixed-effects model, our study examined whether large-grained and fine-grained indicators predict the quality of learners' Chinese L2 writing differently depending on the learners' L1s. The study found that: (1) The whole model of large-grained indicators explained 51.96 % of the variance (fixed effects: 39.17 %; random effects: 12.65 %). The relationship between the mean length of sentence, mean length of clause, mean length of T-unit, clauses per sentence, T-units per sentence, and dependency distance indicators and scores was moderated by L1s. (2) The whole model of fine-grained indicators explained 59.6 % of the variance (fixed effects: 53.9 %; random effects: 5.4 %). The ratio of subject-verb, adverbial, and coordinate were moderated by the L1 and showed differences between groups. We found that even those indicators that are common across languages may show different effects when predicting scores due to different L1s (subject-verb, adverbial).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101241"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing students’ reflexive knowledge through EAP instruction","authors":"Yan (Olivia) Zhang , Ken Hyland","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Being reflective means thinking deeply and thoughtfully about one's experiences, thoughts, and emotions, fostering greater self-awareness and understanding. It is a process of self-examination and a skill learners need to develop to fully articulate their ideas and interpretations in writing. While increasing attention is now devoted to promoting students’ reflective practice, instruction that develops their reflexive knowledge remains underexplored. Based on analyses of an EAP teaching context in China, we show how sequenced tasks (guided textual analysis, multi-source feedback, collaborative text reworking and self-assessment) can enhance students’ <em>reflection-on-practice</em> and their use of various kinds of knowledge (cognitive, linguistic, cultural, assessment) in situated contexts. Through analyses of students’ group exemplar and self-feedback, we discuss students’ engagement and reflective judgement in writing through resources of teacher instruction, peer-assisted learning and self-assessment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101245"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing","authors":"Carolina Pelaez-Morales , Colleen Brice","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101266","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101266"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145690508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a raciolinguistically informed GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing","authors":"Lisya Seloni","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This response paper calls for a need to adopt a raciolinguistic lens in GELT paradigm, one that explicitly prepares L2 teachers to engage with language difference in writing and work with writers in racialized bodies that are marginalized regardless of their language abilities. The article first defines what raciolinguistically aware GELT-informed writing instruction can offer in times of growing structural inequalities, and then explores the challenges and opportunities this perspective raise for writing teacher education globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101258"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145417295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing antiracist pedagogy & linguistic justice in cross-cultural composition through the “Toward Antiracist First-Year Composition Goals” statement","authors":"Madeline Crozier Sutton , Tanita Saenkhum","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While the publication of the “Toward Antiracist First-Year Composition Goals” Statement (Beavers et al., 2021) received much attention in the field of writing program administration, instructors need practical examples to demonstrate <em>how</em> to apply its conceptual framework to the composition classroom. This teaching report models how to use the Statement to design an antiracist cross-cultural first-year composition course. In order to promote antiracist pedagogy and linguistic justice, the course curriculum and assessment followed the Statement’s four dimensions: rhetorical knowledges, critical languaging, laboring as embodied processes, and conventions as languaging practices. Then, we conducted a small-scale classroom study to investigate multilingual students’ and instructors’ perspectives on the course curriculum. Participant perspectives show that cross-cultural composition courses can achieve antiracist aims and promote linguistic justice using the Statement as a guiding framework. The course design and student perspectives shed light on how the Statement can be used by program administrators and teachers to develop antiracist cross-cultural composition courses to address local context and constraints.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101264"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145525335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic socialization with generative AI: A longitudinal case study of an L2 graduate student’s academic literacies development","authors":"Xiao Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101263","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Historically, L2 students face numerous challenges in academic discourse socialization where the dominant language is not their first language. In addition to overcoming linguistic barriers, they have to navigate opaque academic conventions and power dynamics often on their own. The advancement of large language models offers new opportunities to support L2 students’ academic socialization by providing resources and potentially mitigating unequal power relations. The case study adopts a longitudinal approach to understand how an international, English as a Second Language graduate student named Caroline leverages ChatGPT to help her develop academic literacies and socialize into the academic community in her first year. Data were collected from seven monthly interviews over a year, survey responses, and records with ChatGPT. The findings suggest that Caroline used ChatGPT not only for reading and writing support but also to explore new genres, navigate disciplinary expectations, and generate research ideas, all of which contributed to her growing research interest, genre knowledge, disciplinary identity, and confidence in participating in academic activities. While providing valuable empirical support to the affordances of GenAI in assisting academic discourse socialization, the study also raises urgent questions regarding Caroline’s identity crisis and potential learning losses when GenAI use is heavily involved in academic tasks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101263"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145525837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing Global Englishes approach to teaching multilingual writing via EIL-aware Teacher Education","authors":"Roby Marlina","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper responds to Christine Tardy’s observation of multilingual writing teachers’ lack of engagement with scholarship on writing pedagogy with the Global Englishes orientation. It explores how the EIL-aware Teacher Education framework can be applied to multilingual writing teacher development, with the aim of preparing practitioners to teach writing through the Global Englishes lens. Specifically, it illustrates how teachers can be supported through three interconnected phases – Exposure, Critical Awareness, and Action Plan – that progressively foster reflection, awareness, and pedagogical transformation. It concludes with a discussion of challenges and reflections, highlighting the need to move beyond the academic sphere to realise a more pluricentric and context-sensitive approach to writing pedagogy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101244"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EFL undergraduate students’ thinking and awareness in genre-based writing: Conceptualizing rhetorical moves and experimenting with linguistic knowledge","authors":"Naoko Mochizuki","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In genre-based writing classes, students’ understanding and application of genre concepts vary based on their backgrounds and contexts. However, the thought processes underlying students’ genre-based writing remain understudied, particularly in undergraduate English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) classes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings. To address this gap, this ethnographic case study explores students’ thinking and awareness during genre-based academic essay writing in EGAP classes I taught at a university in Japan. Data were collected from students’ genre analysis of a sample text, drafts, annotated revised essays, written reflections, and recordings of writing conferences. The analysis reveals shifts in students’ reading stances during genre analysis, and their simplistic conceptualizations of perceived genre characteristics (e.g., rhetorical moves) and their experimentations with L2 linguistic knowledge based on rhetorical considerations (e.g., to express own thoughts in the text) during text construction. These findings highlight students’ evolving genre knowledge, genre and language needs, and potential for learning, as well as gaps in my genre-based teaching. Informed by critical reflection on my teaching practices, pedagogical implications emphasize the importance of promptly eliciting and addressing students’ emerging needs during text construction through explicit guidance and metacognitive scaffolding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101243"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JSLW Editorial for December 2025","authors":"YouJin Kim, Stephen Doolan","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101267"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145690507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond models: SLW teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and instructional practices with mentor texts","authors":"Angela Hakim , Christine M. Tardy , Emily Palese","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101261","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101261","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mentor texts play a central role in genre-based writing instruction, where students explore rhetorical and formal features of texts used in different writing situations. However, second language writing (SLW) teachers’ knowledge of and instructional practices with mentor texts have been underexplored. Drawing on the results from a survey and one-to-one interviews with SLW instructors in two U.S. university writing programs, this study sought to investigate teachers’ pedagogical knowledge of and instructional practices with mentor texts. The findings from this study suggest that the instructors use texts for a range of pedagogical activities, but that they face significant challenges in locating, selecting, and using mentor texts. The findings also provide insight into the complex set of knowledge domains that SLW teachers draw on, as well as the tensions that can arise when doing so. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for SLW teacher education, professional development, and resource and materials development, and offers suggestions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101261"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145474095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}