EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF WORD-PROCESSING FOR NONNATIVE WRITERS

The potential of word processing for non-native student writers is exp lored through an examination of effects in the categories of writing p rocess, quantity and quality of writing, planning and prewriting, revi sing, conception of writing, cognitive processing, setting effects, an d attitudes. It is maintained that non-native writers may benefit in s ignificant ways from the attributes of word processing and the conditi ons surrounding its use in composition instruction.