How I Teach My English-Language Learners to Love Writing When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. Ken Hyland, a professor of applied linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, argues for the use of “genre pedagogy” for second-language learners, in which students learn about text forms, rather than use of a process approach, in which students learn steps of writing. Hyland wrote in a 2007 article in the Journal of Second Language Writing that in genre pedagogy, supporting the