title: The Other Languages of Europe: Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives (Multilingual Matters)
author: Guus Extra
description: Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.
zlib_text: INTO EUROPE
  The Writing Handbook
  
  INTO EUROPE
  Series editor: J. Charles Alderson
  Other volumes in this series:
  Reading and Use of English
  The Speaking Handbook
  Listening
  
   
   
  Into Europe 
  The Writing Handbook 
   
   
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  CONTENTS
  Series editor’s preface
  7
  Acknowledgements
  9
  PART ONE Background and aims
  Introduction
  13
  Chapter 1: To the teacher
  15
  Chapter 2: Writing
  25
  PART TWO Task types and task demands
  Introduction
  39
  Chapter 3: Designing writing tasks
  41
  Chapter 4: Letter
  61
  Chapter 5: Article
  87
  Chapter 6: Composition
  97
  PART THREE Assessing writing ability
  Introduction
  121
  Chapter 7: Rating scales
  123
  Chapter 8: Assessing task achievement
  133
  Chapter 9: Assessing coherence and cohesion
  175
  Chapter 10: Assessing grammar
  219
  Chapter 11: Assessing vocabulary
  257
  Closing comments
  299
  APPENDICES
  Guidelines for Item Writers
  303
  Glossary
  305
  
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  SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
  Modern Europe encourages mobility of labour and of students across the frontiers
  of the European Uni