Discover and Transform: A Method of Teaching Writing to Foreign Students.

Linguistically-oriented materials for teaching writing are of relatively recent interest to ESL teachers. The linguistic method was originally developed primarily for the purpose of teaching oral English to students interested in learning to converse in the language. Those students interested in the written language have for the most part continued to learn it via the translation method, going through Theodore Dreiser or Joseph Conrad, dictionaries in hand. Until very recently, then, non-native students of English have learned to speak the language or to read it, but seldom to write it.