[:en]Title:Linguistic Development in Second Language Writing Date: 2015/5/1914:40-16:10 Place: Miyagi University of Education(Room:TBA) Contact: Wataru Suzuki(watarusuzuki@gmail.com) Content: I will report on two semester-long longitudinal studies of L2 writing development. To situate thestudies, I will begin with a short summary of the research on language development in L2 writing based on a review article (Polio & Park, in press). I will highlight the various approaches that researchers have taken and discuss some of the methodological challenges. The first study involves a data set that was analyzed from a variety of perspectives, the results of which were published in a recent special issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing (Connor-Linton & Polio, 2014). These…