Testimonials: Empowering ESL Students to Write.

Blot, David

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ERIC Number: EJ477757

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Publication Date: 1993

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Testimonials: Empowering ESL Students to Write.

Blot, David

College ESL, v3 n1 p15-24 Jul 1993

The nature, uniqueness, and value of testimonials in English-as-a-Second-Language courses are described. Oral narratives, collected from people from developing countries who cannot write, are edited and translated by a recorder/collector. Examples are cited and their use in the classroom is reported. (Contains 12 references.) (LB)

Descriptors: Biographies, Books, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Literary Genres, Oral History, Personal Narratives, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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