LITERATURE REVIEW NOTES FOR MY OWN PERSONAL STUDY 1

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.........