These annotated references have been prepared by graduate students in courses taught by Dr. Patricia Byrd in the Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL at Georgia State University. They are placed on the WWW for other graduate students to use in research and preparation for classes. Corrections and Suggestions should be sent to patbyrd@gsu.edu. Click on the [annotation #] after each reference to go to annotations for that publication. If more than one annotation is provided for a particular publication, click on the cross-references given in square brackets at the end of the reference. Different readers will find different information in a given publication of use to them and thus the different annotations will contain an assortment of different information and discussion.
alphabetical listing by author | collections of references organized thematically
Bardovi-Harlig, K. & Reynolds, D. (1995). The role of lexical aspect in the acquisition of tense and aspect. TESOL Quarterly, 29 (1). [Annotation #1]
Bhatia,V. (1993). From description to explanation in language teaching. In Analysing genre: language use in professional settings (pp. 147-206). New York: Longman. [Annotation #1]
Bensoussan, M. (1990). EFL reading as seen through translation and discourse analysis: Narrative vs. expository texts. English for Specific Purposes, 9, 49-66. [Annotation #1]
Biber, D. (1988). Variation Across Speech and Writing (pp. 3-27, 170-198). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. [Annotation #1] [Annotation #2]
Byrd, P. Grammar in the Composition Syllabus. In Pat Byrd and Joy Reid, Grammar in the Composition Class. <http://www.gsu.edu/eslhpb/grammar/from.htm> (1997, February 16). [Annotation #1]
Byrd, H.P. It's all the same grammar: Re-thinking grammar at various proficiency levels. http://www.gsu.edu/~eslhpb/grammar [Annotation #1]
Carson, J. G., Chase, N. D., Gibson, S. U., & Hargrove, M.F. (1992). Literacy demands of the undergraduate curriculum. Reading Research and Instruction, 31(4), 25-50. [Annotation #1]
Dipardo, A. (1990). Narrative knowers, expository knowledge: Discourse as a dialectic. Written Communication, 7 (1), 59-95. [Annotation #1]
Godfrey, D.L. (1980). A Discourse Analysis of Tense in Adult ESL Monologues. In D. Larsen-Freeman (Ed.), Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research (pp. 92-110). Rowley, Mass: Newbury House Publishers, Inc. [Annotation #1]
Grabe, W. (1991). Current developments in second language reading and research. TESOL Quarterly, 25(3), 375-406. [Annotation #1]
Halliday, M. (1989). Text, context, and learning. In M.A.K. Halliday & R. Hasan, Language, context and text: aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective (pp. 44-49). New York: Oxford University Press. [Annotation #1]
Ishikawa, S. (1995). Objective measurement of low-proficiency EFL narrative writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 4(1), 51-69. [Annotation #1]
Joo, Y.S. (1997). Teaching Grammar FROM Discourse for Korean Students in Korea. In Modules to Teach Grammar FROM Discourse. Journal of English Grammar on the Web, 1. <http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/jegw/> (1997, February 16). [Annotation #1]
Love, A. (1993). Lexico-grammatical features of geology textbooks: Process and product revisited. English for Specific Purposes, 12, 197-218. [Annotation #1]
MacDonald, S. P. (1994). Sentence-level differences in disciplinary knowledge making. In Professional and academic writing in the humanities and social sciences, (pp.147-169). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. [Annotation #1]
Myers, G. (1992). Textbooks and the sociology of scientific knowledge. English for Specific Purposes, 11 (1), 3-17. [Annotation #1]
Meyers, G. (1991). Lexical cohesion and specialized knowledge in science and popular science texts. Discourse Processes, 14, 1-26. [Annotation #1]
Paltridge, B. (1994). Genre analysis and the identification of textual boundaries. Applied Linguistics, 15 (3), 288-299. [Annotation #1]
Riddle, E. (1986). The Meaning and Discourse Function of the Past Tense in English. TESOL Quarterly, 20, 267-286. [Annotation #1] [Annotation #2]
Spack, Ruth. (1997). The acquisition of academic literacy in a second language: A longitudinal case study. Written Communication,14(1), 3-62. [Annotation #1]
Stockton, S. (1995). Writing in history: Narrating the subject of time. Written Communication, 12 (1), 47-73. [Annotation #1]
Swaffar, J. (1988). Readers, texts, and second languages: the interactive processes. The Modern Language Journal, 72 (2), 123-149. [Annotation #1]
Tucker, A. (1995). Decoding ESL: International students in the American college classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton /Cook Publishers, Inc. [Annotation #1]