Week 5

After a lecture yesterday, it started me thinking about all the students I had in Japan. I cannot say that all of them could use of written and spoken language well, but I can say that they knew the language to sue them for their purposes.Hayland, K (2003 p.32) when explaining about' writing' of L2 learners says that " students have a wide range of knowledge to successfully write in English". It has been my experience that most of the learners in my classes when writing as undergraduates did not write well. I was not allowed to instruct them in writing myself (by that I mean make my own teaching materials) and had to use a prescribed textbook. I saw the layout of the textbook was quite good however most of the writing exercises in it worse simple exercises explaining about ; family' or ' the weather' or other mundane subjects like this. As undergraduates who were all enrolled in medicine and would become doctors, I'd think that the students should have been learning about research writing.Benesch (The 2003 p. ) also as withHayland explains about students and academic writing that the students are " socially connected" and that ' identity is not " a matter of finding one's own' true self'." Certainly in my classes, with the text that the students were allowed using, I felt that it didn't really offer them opportunities that they should have had.
Interesting reading and these two books, as hard as it was for me.