A remark; NOTES FROM PAST LITERATURE
STUDIES. YOU CAN COPY MINE. MUST CHANGE TO YOUR OWN SENTENCES WHEN YOU WANT TO FIT THEM INTO YOUR
PAPER WRITING.
1. Over the past decades, numerous studies have
been conducted with the genre framework. The most influential study is probably
the latest conducted by Christie and Derewianka
(2008) and Christie (2012). Both studies
sampled students’ texts from primary to late secondary school across different
subjects in Australia to investigate how their writing developed and what
genres they needed to write across the school years before university. They
identified typical genres in the students’ writing in different subject areas
and summarized the linguistic features.
2. The study (Winfred Wenhui
Xuan, 2017) did writing tasks to be studied for his longitudinal study paper.
So, I may follow or adapt his method of collecting data like below;
Table 1
Writing tasks that
students accomplished
|
Time
|
Topic
|
Details
|
|
11th Sep 2011
|
Learn to smile
|
Advise others to smile
|
|
11th Oct 2011
|
A letter to Mike
|
Write a letter to a friend, who is sick recently.
|
|
11th Nov 2011
|
Trip to Hangzhou
|
Sharing your travelling experiences to Hangzhou with your friends.
|
|
11th Dec 2011
|
Steve Jobs
|
Describe Steve Jobs and his life.
|
|
12th Jan 2012
|
Lifelong learning
|
Discuss lifelong learning and how to practice it.
|
|
12th Feb 2012
|
An activity
|
Share an interesting activity.
|
|
12th Mar 2012
|
A letter to Alice
|
Write a letter to Alice and explain how to improve her relationship
with her Mum.
|
|
8th Apr 2012
|
How to be a good learner?
|
State your views on how to be a good learner.
|
|
9th May 2012
|
Micro blog
|
Explore the advantages and disadvantages of micro blog. State your
views on it.
|
|
10th Jun 2012
|
Charity sale
|
Share the charity sale took place in your school.
|
Winfred
Wenhui Xuan (2017). An exploratory study of ESL writing by junior secondary students
in China: text type, register and textual features. Functional Linguistics, 2017-4:3
https://doi.org/10. 1186/s40554-016-0038-9.
Christie, F., and B. Derewianka. 2008. School discourse: learning to
write across the years of schooling. London: Continuum
Christie, F. 2012. Language education throughout the school years: a
functional perspective. Language learning monograph series. USA:
Wiley-Blackwell.
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2. Research done on this issue has clearly indicated that anxiety is a
factor that needs to be considered in second language acquisition (Na, 2007;
Wei, 2007). One of them is about the vocabulary.
3. The anxiety occurs when learning a new language (Lightbown &
Spada, 2006) especially during foreign language learning
(Tanveer, 2007; Loewen et al., 2009).
- Tanveer, M. 2007. Investigating of factors
that cause language anxiety for ESL/EFL learners in learning speaking skills
and the influence it casts on communication in the target language. University
of Glasgow. 2
- Lightbown,
P. M. and Spada, N. (2006). How languages are learned. 3rd Edn: Oxford
University Press
- Loewen, S., Lee, S., Fei, F., Thopson, A.,
Nakatsukasa, K., Ahn, S. and Chen, X. 2009. Second language learners’ beliefs
about grammar instruction and error correction. The Modern Language Journal,
93: 91-104.
- Na, Z. 2007. A study of high school students’
english learning anxiety. Asian EFL Journal, 9(3): 22-34
- Wei, M. 2007. The interrelatedness of
affective factors in EFL Learning: An examination of motivational patterns in
relation to anxiety in China. TESL-EJ, 11(1): 1-23
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Ana R. Lemos et al., (2014) using method of Interviews
with teachers as one of their mixed method data collection. A purposeful
sampling method 33,34 was used to identify teaching staff for interviews to
ensure that there was a variety of teaching experience and that major
disciplinary areas on the course were represented. 19% (7 teachers) from the
population in schools were gathered for the interview session.
- Ana R. Lemos, John E. Sandars, Palmira Alves,
and Manuel J. Costa (2014). The evaluation of student-centredness of teaching
and learning: a new mixed-methods approach. Int J Med Educv.5; 2014PMC4212413.
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1. In Kenya English is taught as a second
language, it has been given a high status than native languages by the Government
due to its status as a national and international language (Chesang, 2005).
WILL BE CONTINUED.........
