Luciana C. de Oliveira is Associate Professor and Director, ELL Licensure Program, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, USATony Silva is Professor and Director of the ESL Writing Program, Department of English, Purdue University, USA.

• 1. On the Radar Screen and the Need to Focus on L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms Part I: Student Experiences: Case Studies 2. "She Doesn’t Know Who I Am": The Case of a Refugee L2 Writer in a High School English Language Arts Classroom 3. Adolescent Writers and Academic Trajectories: Situating L2 Writing in the Content Areas 4. "Doing Like Almost Everything Wrong": An Adolescent Multilingual Writer's Transition from High School to College Part II: Academic Issues 5. Preparing English Language Learners for Argumentative Writing 6. The Role of Social Relationships in the Writing Development of Multilingual Adolescents 7. Emerging Literacies in Digital Media and L2 Secondary Writing Part III: Teacher Education 8. Focus on Pre-service Preparation for ESL Writing: K-12 Teacher Perspectives 9. ESOL Teachers as Writing Teachers: From the Voice of Pre-Service Teachers 10. Responsive Teacher Inquiry for Learning about Adolescent English Learners as Developing Writers 11. Understanding how Preservice Teachers Develop a Working Knowledge of L2 writing: Toward a Socioculturally-Oriented Postmethod Pedagog

"This book both increases the reader's understanding of the complexity of factors impacting adolescent second- language writers, and provides a guide to educating teachers to address these students' specific needs. Summing Up: Recommended."- I.Rosenthal, The College of St. Rose, for CHOICE, Novermber 2013."This collection is a valuable contribution to the understudied area of L2 adolescent writers.By bringing together interesting work from established and emerging scholars, the editors provide a volume that joins the 2011 JSLW special issue focused on adolescent writers in establishing a conversation in this under-researched area." - Todd Ruecker, University of New Mexico, Journal of Second Language Writing