Overcoming learning barriers : encouraging writing across the curriculum.
Issued Date
2007
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eng
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Mahidol University
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Green, Jonathan (2007). Overcoming learning barriers : encouraging writing across the curriculum.. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/35005
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Overcoming learning barriers : encouraging writing across the curriculum.
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Abstract
“Don’t you teach them anything in English?” This tongue-in-cheek question,
posed by colleagues teaching other, subject-based courses, reveals a very real
problem in English language courses in an academic environment. The English
syllabus may be sound, and the teachers effective, yet students are simply not
transferring linguistic or critical thinking skills they have gained, under the
guidance of the English department, to other subjects, such as Psychology or
Business Management.
This presentation explores barriers to the transfer of these important skills in an
international undergraduate programme in Thailand and suggests means of
overcoming these obstacles, as implemented by Writing across the Curriculum
(WAC) programmes. WAC goes a step beyond content-based writing curricula;
it is a dual process that also involves embedding language and critical thinking
goals in subject-based courses like Psychology or Business Management.
Description
Thailand TESOL 2007, Bangkok, Thailand. January 26-28, 2007