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50 Years of ERIC
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Increasing Students' Awareness of Genre Through Text Transformation Exercises: An Old Classroom Activity Revisited.
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Caudery, Tim – TESL-EJ, 1998
Discusses how students learning to write in a second language need to be aware of text genres. Claims that transforming texts from one genre to another, using information and ideas in the source text to create new texts for different audiences and purposes, helps students to become aware of and take into account genre-related features such as…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Modes, Second Language Instruction
What the "Process Approach" Means to Practising Teachers of Second Language Writing Skills.
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Caudery, Tim – TESL-EJ, 1995
Reports on a survey conducted on TESL-L aimed at discovering whether English-as-a-Second-Language teachers have similar concepts of the process approach to writing or whether the concept has now evolved in different ways in different places. Survey results show teachers actually have strongly differing ideas as to what process writing is.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Listservs, Process Approach (Writing)