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Case Study: How An East European Student Learns To Compose In English, Ruth Steinfeld Katon
Case Study: How An East European Student Learns To Compose In English, Ruth Steinfeld Katon
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Since the political climate in the former Soviet bloc has shifted, there is an influx of East Europeans to the United States. As these refugees enter the U.S. educational system in greater numbers, teachers must adapt to the special needs of this population. The intent of this study is to focus on the composing skills of a Polish student who enrolled in an English for Non-Native Residents (ENNR) program at an urban university. The investigation examines the contextual framework that supports the subject's literacy experiences by means of a longitudinal case study format Several ethnographic and experimental techniques are used …
Adult Esl Writing Journals: A Case Study Of Topic Assignment, Kathryn Elaine Brunette
Adult Esl Writing Journals: A Case Study Of Topic Assignment, Kathryn Elaine Brunette
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Over the past ten years, the use of student writing journals has become increasingly widespread in the TESOL field. Such journals serve a wide variety of purposes: a cultural diary, a free writing exercise, a forum for reaction or comment on readings or classroom discussions, in addition to a form of teacher/student dialogue. The main purpose of this study has been to determine the relationship of topic assignment to the quantity and quality of resulting entries. The data, 144 journal entries generated by ten adult ESL students over a period of ten weeks, were measured for length, in terms of …
The Mediation Of U.S. American Culture In The Esl Classroom, Steven Fredolph Roberts
The Mediation Of U.S. American Culture In The Esl Classroom, Steven Fredolph Roberts
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The concept of cultural mediation is one that all ESL teachers must deal with as an inherent part of their employment. Yet, relatively little of the current literature has examined how teachers actually perceive this aspect of their work once they have left the teacher preparation program behind. This question provided the main rationale for the present study. The current study, an adaptation of DeFoe (1986), examined the mediation of U.S. American culture in the ESL classroom by means of a written survey of 42 teachers from ten community colleges, both in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area and from around the …