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Subject: question 2

Author:
Maria C�lia Nick

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Date Posted: 10:46:05 08/22/10 Sun

2- Do the article writers provide readers with some sort of justification for their work?

In the article �A case study on foreign English teachers� challenges
in Taiwanese elementary schools� to justify their work the authors (Cheryl Wei-yu Chen and Yuh-show Cheng ) remark that �with the spread of English as the global language,many people from English-speaking countries go to foreign land to work as English teachers�. Upon reviewing the literature, they recognize that there is some study about intercultural team teaching, but they also advocate that these foreign teachers� voices are rarely heard; that there is little research on these teachers� teaching-abroad experiences. In order to fill this gap in the literature, this article is based on three intercultural teachers� experiences and the challenges they encounter.

In the article �Reading strategy awareness of Arabic-speaking medical students studying in English�, the author, Diane Malcolm, says that the focus of recent reading strategy research remains the same as before, which is to compare reading practices of less versus more proficient readers. According to Diane Malcolm, what happens outside the English class setting is less studied. To examine the extent of awareness about reading strategies and how this relates to initial English language proficiency and on-going reading experience, the learners whose reading practices are investigated in the study are Arabic L1 medical students studying through the medium of English in a medical college in the Arabian Gulf. These students have little formal institutional support for their English needs and such support is limited to the first year. After that, students of widely varying initial English proficiency are thrown into a sea of texts, averaging well over 100 pages of specialized medical reading. These inexperienced readers are pushed to develop and refine effective strategies for reading academic texts, particularly the metacognitive strategies associated with planning, monitoring and evaluating their reading.

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