How to Motivate EFL Learning and Teaching of Academic Writing by Cross-cultural Exchanges  

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Daoud, Sada A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 4 (1998), page 391-412.
Fulltext: 17_04_Daoud.pdf (237.42KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Learning/teaching academic writing in EFL and ESL contexts is often described as challenging. In the case of Arab learners and teachers, the task is formidable in many cases, mainly because of students' lack of proficiency and insufficient motivation to write. This paper describes a strategy that has proved useful in motivating EFL/ESP students of intermediate level to write better. The strategy is based on an exchange of students' essays. Two teachers, one American and one Syrian, were involved. Students on both sides started by answering one another's questions. Afterwards, they wrote essays that reflected their personalities, lives, and culture or dealt with issues of international concern. They did this with the audience in mind. The teachers frequently informed each other about different matters related to implementation, including management issues and their own response as well as that of their students to the strategy. This exchange proved to be motivating and useful to the EFL context in which it was tried. The paper shows how this strategy has helped to effect improvement in the learning and teaching of academic writing skills as well as some change in students' attitude to the target culture, perhaps as a result of increased audience awareness.

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