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Subject: Question 1

Author: Tatiana Miranda

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:27:00 08/22/10 Sun 1- What is the role of theory and previous studies in the article? In the first text, “A case study on foreign English teachers’ challenges in Taiwanese elementary schools”, the authors notice that there is little research on these teachers’ teaching-abroad experiences. In this way, they want to develop this challenge for a better preparation, specially in teacher´s accents and problems which were not common for them. One of the tools used is the team teaching between native speaking English teachers and local English teachers and also the peer review work. The authors mentioned some previous studies about some areas they think are essential for the understanding of their research, as the accent teachers have and some people do not like or do not accept. A topic also mentioned is some experiences about racism behaviour. We also have the speech of people interviewed about their feelings doing their work which emphasize and give more trust to the research. The second text, “Reading strategy awareness of Arabic-speaking medical students studying in English”, the author Malcom coted other authors who said about the goal-setting and assessment strategies that comprise metacognitive skills. She also used a second opinion discussing that reading success depends on both a command of those reading skills such as vocabulary recognition and phonological awareness that facilitate rapid decoding, as well as the strategic ability to solve reading problems and the knowledge and experience to know when to apply them. Malcom says that “studies have provided evidence that a low level of familiarity with the second language appears to ‘‘short-circuit” reading ability, forcing readers to a more basic, word by word approach to decoding text, and disabling the use of their already developed L1 reading strategies.” To conclude the author suggested to alert teachers to possible gaps in students’ knowledge about how to deal with academic reading, survey instruments such as the SORS can be useful as teaching tools, to bring students’ attention to the different strategies that make up reading ability, and to raise their awareness of how they read. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]