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The chapter describes a negotiation between two English professors who sought to support English as a Second Language students with the existing resources at the university’s writing center. Through the external funding of a professional development grant, this negotiation describes the process of crafting a sustained collaboration that further developed the writing center’s communal identity. The chapter reflects on feedback from L2 students and peer tutors as they participated in two workshops focused on intercultural communication and second language acquisition theory and practice. Among other conclusions, these workshops emphasized the necessity for students to advocate for their own voice in their written academic work. Overall, this chapter explores the influence of negotiation, identity, and language as situated by the influence of the multiple stakeholders and institutional context. (123)
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Editors’ Note: Readers will encounter a variety of acronyms and terms regarding language acquisition as they read this chapter. As editors, we prefer to use the term ELL when referring to people in general, including students, who are English language learners, even as we acknowledge that many linguists will use L2 or NNE when specifically referring to students who speak a first language that is not English. Along with Drs. Klein and Greene, we use ESL when referring to students who will be enrolled in or considered for English language support classes and the programs that host such classes. Also, since the authors used Bruce and Rafoth’s ESL Writers (2009) with the writing consultant workshops that they discuss in this chapter, we adopted their abbreviations when they were relevant. Dr. Greene adheres to her field’s usage of ESL and ELL as independent terms, as each term has a different meaning and may be used specifically to best describe the student or program that is being discussed. For background information about the acronyms in this chapter and a glossary for them, please refer to the authors’ endnote for this chapter.1
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Klein, S., Greene, C. (2017). Meeting the World in the Center: Negotiating Meaning at the Writing Studio. In: Myatt, A., Gaillet, L. (eds) Writing Program and Writing Center Collaborations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59932-2_10
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