Jim Hu
Assistant Professor
Department of English as a Second or Additional Language
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, BC, Canada
E-mail: jhu@tru.ca

Recent Publications

Hu, J. (Ed.) The Bitter Sweetness of Learning to Write Academic English: An Anthology of ESL Students’ Essays.  http://www.tru.ca/dsd/esl/faculty/jhu/index.htm

Hu, J. (2003). Thinking languages in L2 writing: Research findings and pedagogical implications. TESL Canada Journal, 21(1), 39-63.

Hu, J. (2001). An alternative perspective of language re-use: Insights from textual and learning theories and L2 academic writing. English Quarterly, 33(1&2), 52-62.  

Recent Presentations

Hu, J. (2007). Treating treatable and untreatable ESL academic writing errors. Workshop presented at the International TESOL Convention, Seattle, WA. 

Hu. J. (2006). Discovering emerging research in a qualitative study in academic writing. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL) , Montreal, QC.

Hu, J. (2006). The making of ESL academic writing. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language (BC TEAL), Vancouver, BC.

(updated 04/07)