Transfer and transformation in multilingual student writing

While transfer research in English-for-academic-purposes (EAP), first-year-composition (FYC) and second language (L2) writing contexts has theorized how novice multilingual writers might adapt prior knowledge across languages, we still have little empirical evidence to suggest how L2 writers make decisions concerning how and what to transfer in such writing courses. Grounded in the theory of adaptive transfer, this article examines how six...