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TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE:
AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL
ISSN: 1072-4303
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TESL-EJ Vol. 1. No. 4 June 1995
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Table of Contents..............................................TOC
Front Matter.................................................. FM
From the Editor.................................................1
Editorial Board.................................................2
Call for Manuscripts............................................4
Book Review Policy..............................................6
Books Received (with brief notes)...............................7
Media Received for Review......................................11
Articles
L2 Classroom Transcripts: Data in Search of a Methodology?...A-1
Paul Seedhouse (37p)
The Man who Mistook "Wet Paint" for a Verb: A Chronicle..... A-2
for Thinking about Language, Culture and Writing
Marcia Pally & Abou Diallo (32p)
What the "Process Approach" Means to Practising Teachers.....A-3
of Second Language Writing Skills
Tim Caudery (16p)
Reviews
Textbooks
Frodesen, J. and Eyring, J. _Grammar Dimensions: Form,...R-1
Meaning, and Use, Book Four_
Reviewed by Jerry Call
Newman, C.M., Grognett, A.G., and Crandall, J.............R-2
_LifePrints: ESL for Adults, Books One and Two_
Reviewed by Deborah Levy
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Teacher Resource Books
Close, R.A. _A Teacher's Grammar: An Approach to the....R-3
Central Problems of English_
Reviewed by Thomas Leverett
Fox, H. _Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in.....R-4
Academic Writing_
Reviewed by M.E. Sokolik
Lewis, M. and Hill, J. _Practical Techniques for........R-5
Language Teaching_, rev. ed.
Reviewed by Thomas K. Stoffer
Wei, L. _Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family:..R-6
Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese
Community in Britain_
Reviewed by A. Suresh Canagarajah
Media Reviews
_English Tutor_ . [CD-ROM and software]......................MR-1
Reviewed by Lawrence Cisar
Forum
Thoughts on the Need to (Re)Claim, Explain, Define............F-1
ESL/EFL/ESP
Janet Sutherland, Forum Editor
The Conference Watcher..........................................CW
On the Internet
EX*CHANGE World-Wide Web Site...............................INT-1
Heidi Shetzer
Favorite CALL Links on the Web..............................INT-2
Collected by Jim Duber
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Abstracts of Articles
L2 Classroom Transcripts: Data in Search of a Methodology?...A-1
Paul Seedhouse (30p)
This article presents reasons why the development of
a methodology for the description, analysis and evaluation
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of L2 classroom interaction would be desirable. L2 class-
room interaction is unique in that linguistic forms are
the goal as well as the vehicle of instruction, and in
that the linguistic patterns of interaction produced by
learners are linked to the pedagogical purposes which the
teacher introduces. It is therefore proposed that a unique
methodology, which would be able to link pedagogical pur-
poses to linguistic forms and patterns of interaction,
needs to be developed. Such a methodology should also be
able to depict how pedagogical purposes and contexts vary
between lessons and within lessons, and how varieties of
communication are created as a result. The methodology
should in addition be able to adopt a multiple perspective
and rule-based approach, incorporating participant per-
spectives and triangulation, in order to achieve validity
and reliability. This article seeks to outline the
features and qualities of such a methodology: it does not,
however, propose a concrete or detailed methodology.
KEYWORDS: Classroom Interaction, Methodology
The Man who Mistook "Wet Paint" for a Verb: A Chronicle..... A-2
for Thinking about Language, Culture and Writing (25p)
Marcia Pally & Abou Diallo
This article chronicles an ESL tutorial between a
woman from Niger, whose first languages are French and
Fulani, and her teacher, a native speaker of English. It
high-lights issues in ESL teaching and research. The
teaching issues include: (1) identifying the most useful
focus and pedagogical sequence for advanced ESL
instruction; (2) the gap between what teachers "mean"
and what students apprehend; (3) cross-cultural
differences in the rhetorical requirements of expository
and persuasive writing, including argument, proof,
cause-and-effect, and summation/judgment. The article
considers whether these requirements should be made
explicit and who benefits from explicitness; (4) the
political and economic conditions under which
international students study at U.S. universities, and
the effects of these conditions on quality of education,
student resistance to education, communication among
students and faculty, and the attitudes that
international students develop about their experience in
America.
The major research issue broached is the value of
the chronicle, sometimes called action research in
Britain, case study in the works of Bruner, Merriam,
Clark, Nieto, and portraiture in the work of Ashton-
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Warner, Lightfoot, and Sayers. Chronicles offer not
sample populations but examples of language learning
that may 1) spark theory building and quantitative
research, 2) allow teachers to assess research findings
for classroom use, and 3) become authentic texts and
task-based activities for language study.
KEYWORDS: Classroom Interaction, Methodology
What the "Process Approach" Means to Practising Teachers.....A-3
of Second Language Writing Skills
Tim Caudery (15p)
The article reports on a survey conducted on TESL-L
aimed at discovering whether ESL teachers have similar
concepts of the "process approach" to writing, or
whether the concept has now evolved in different ways
in different places. The survey results show that
teachers actually have strongly differing ideas as to
what process writing is. Such divergence may be typical
of teaching approaches which have been in use for some
time; but in this instance the changes may have been
accentuated because the process approach was originally
developed in and for the L1 classroom, and has been
adapted for L2 teaching. It is suggested that some of
the heat which characterized the initial debate on
process writing may have cooled a little, making the
time ripe for fresh discussion of what we have learned
about teaching writing in L2 and possible ways forward
in the future.
The article also comments briefly on the process of
conducting surveys on an electronic network.
KEYWORDS: ESL composition, electronic discussion,
process approach
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