Design Orientation to Second Language Writing Instruction

Heather Willis Allen received her PhD in Education and French from Emory University, USA. She is Associate Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Dr. Allen's research foci are multiliteracies and Design pedagogies, second language writing, and teacher education.

• 1 Looking Back, Looking Forward: L2 Writing and Learning-by-Design2 L2 Writing As Designing Meaning3 L2 Writing and Multimodality4 L2 Writing and Intertextuality5 L2 Writing and Creativity6 LS Writing and Collaborative PracticesAfterword

"A Design Orientation to Second Language Writing Instruction is a thought-provoking and intellectually ambitious work that successfully challenges the field to modernize its practices. It leaves the reader not with a bag of tricks, but with a renewed philosophy—a powerful lens through which to see the immense potential in every multilingual writer. As such, it is essential reading for any educator committed to fostering inclusive, equitable, and transformative writing classrooms."- Xin Li, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China, in Applied Linguistics, 2025 (00, 1-4)