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| Autor/in | Agnew, Eleanor |
|---|---|
| Titel | Old Pedagogies: ESL Students as Problems in the Composition Classroom. |
| Quelle | (1994), (12 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Classroom Communication; Cultural Awareness; English (Second Language); Higher Education; Language Attitudes; Secondary Education; Writing Difficulties; Writing Instruction; Writing Teachers |
| Abstract | Nonnative English speaking students have usually felt intense pressure and loss of self-esteem in the typical English classroom in the United States. This is a direct result of America's longstanding distrust of foreigners, and the condescension with which the educational system has sometimes treated nonnative speakers. According to C. B. Stein, "the world view of teachers and administrators approaches history and culture as if both began in England and came to fruition in the United States." When nonnative speakers first began entering college in record numbers, many teachers who taught English as a Second Language (ESL) were not specifically trained in the field, and sometimes saw as problems what were really cultural differences in classroom behavior. For classroom English teachers, grammatical incorrectness has traditionally been a sore point, and many nonnative students make a lot more errors than native students--errors which usually cannot be explained by simple prescriptive rules. Thus frustrated university professors lay the blame for unsuccessful written communication on what is immediately obvious--incorrect grammar. Although recent ESL theory has grown in the same direction as mainstream composition theory, that is, away from preoccupation with error and toward an appreciation of content, it is difficult to reconcile knowledge about the existence of contrastive rhetoric with the goal of preparing students to follow academic conventions in the discipline of English and in other disciplines. (Contains 13 references.) (NKA) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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