Teaching and Researching Invention: Using Ethnography in ESL Writing CLasses.

Liebman-Kleine, JoAnne

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Publication Date: 1987

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Teaching and Researching Invention: Using Ethnography in ESL Writing CLasses.

Liebman-Kleine, JoAnne

ELT Journal, v41 n2 p104-11 Apr 1987

A small ethnographic study determining the writing strategy preferences of advanced English as a second language students (N=48) found that students' most common preferences were hierarchical treeing or planning. Open-ended exploratory techniques were also popular. The least common preference was for systematic heuristics. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cognitive Style, College Students, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Heuristics, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Research Methodology, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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