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Subject: question 3 - how do article writers... somecorrections

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Marcia

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Date Posted: 11:10:43 08/23/10 Mon

3- How do article writers validate their own thoughts and conclusions?

Article writers present in the text appropriate information about their studies. Quantitative and qualitative data collection, data analysis, statistical analysis, literature reviews, experimental evidence and references are provided in articles to back up the points being argued, emphasizing aspects that are relevant.

The article "A case study on foreign English teachers� challenges in Taiwanese elementary schools, Chen. C & Cheng. Y (2009) presents a qualitative case study based on the experiences of three foreign English teachers. The study focus on highlight the need for a better preparation for foreign English-speaking teachers (who are native speakers of English) before teaching abroad and understand better "the multiple contexts surrounding their work, including that of the classroom, the school, and the larger society". In other to support the study several workshops was attended to select participants. The data was collected via different methods including interviews, questionnaires, classroom observation, fieldnotes and researcher journal, and document inspection.

The article "Reading strategy awareness of Arabica-speaking medical students studying in English, MALCOLM, Diane (2009) investigated reading strategy among Arab medical students and examined the extent of awareness about reading strategies, monitoring and evaluating their reading in other to support the argument that states of a variety of strategies that teachers should brought to students to raise their ability in reading and to call their awareness of reading. Using reported reading strategy and also different research tools, the author investigate "the nature of strategic reading, including self reports of reading such as �think aloud� protocols, interviews, logs and journals and questionnaire data based on self-ratings of strategy use. Reading strategy research was also compared to findings in previous studies.

In both studies analyzed the writers validated their thoughts and conclusions based on previous studies and especially on the results of the methods adopted in each study.

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