Misguided Expectations: Efl Teachers' Attitudes Towards Italian University Students' Written Work  

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Hargan, Noeleen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 4 (1995), page 223-232.
Fulltext: Vol. 09, No. 4, p 223-232.pdf (784.07KB)

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This paper offers a critical review of assumptions frequently encountered in connection with the teaching of writing in English as a second or foreign language at university level. It deals in particular with the suitability (or otherwise) of the models of academic research and writing proposed, particularly, but not only, in situations where the students' LI is the medium of instruction. Focusing on the situation of the Law, Politics and Economics Faculties of one particular Italian university, it describes some of the problems which Englishlanguage teachers and students have faced in connection with cultural norms, writing skills and academic performance. In arguing that the central issue is a problem of cross-cultural communication rather than a strictly pedagogical one, the paper suggests that it is teachers' expectations, tasks, materials and evaluation criteria that are to change, and not students' behaviour.

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