What you have written Darryl was, as always, enlightening reading. It was sometimes hard to draw myself back to the fact that you used to be an ESL teacher. (No disrespect meant).
As a teacher it's very hard sometimes not to focus on the areas of the student and not the good things that they do. Until now, through discussion with others, I see (myself included) that everybody is focusing on the micro or the sentence level. I haven't heard many people talking about the macro and focusing on the' total text'. Shouldn't we be looking at text a student produces and commenting on its whole structure. This was discussed in our lecture yesterday and made me realise the shortcomings of myself and the other teacher trainers in the class possibly focus on sentence structure of a text and not the whole unit.
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