ESL Writers Chapter Summary

Understanding ESL Writers is for writing teachers to guide ESL students. This book was written by Ilona Leki, who has many years’ experience of teaching ESL student. The purpose of this book is to help make teaching writing to non-natives easier and help teachers in deciding methodologies. The first section of the book explains the history of ESL writing instruction and describes models of second language acquisition. It is important to re-examine the goals of the writing class. We need to know what are learners ’goals might be. For the most part, everyone learns to write at school. Writing is not a naturally simple interaction, so we have to understand the specific difficulties of L2 students. In learning a second language, the learners …show more content…
In making writing assignments, we should question ESL students about how familiar they are and how comfortable they feel with a topic. We have to help them can illustrate their writing structure and teach them right forms of English writing. Allowing them use dictionary and internet to search information, and make them relax to expressing their ideas. We can choose personal topic, it is easier to write because some general topic is uneasy to ESL students. ESL students who are expert writer in their L1 are able to plan. Their needs are to learn how to write in correct form in English. When ESL learners writing, they prefer to switch to their L1 as they plan and write English. They often missing resonance of words in English, but we don’t be avoid this situation because that may influence their thinking. ESL learners often focus on finding right forms and right words. However, writing in English is more time consuming, less fluent, and less sophisticated. We have to teach students enjoy writing is more important than fluently. ESL students make many sentence-level errors because there are many interferences or transfer errors from their L1. Different country background’s students will have different errors in their writing. For ESL students and for their teachers is important; a good ESL grammar handbook will provide explanations of the rules. Sentence-level errors may be the most difficult feature of ESL student writing. It is important to remember that these take time. Feedback on the writing of both native and non-native is generally more effective that it can be the comments to let students find their errors. ESL students need extra time, not only to write, revise, and edit that is really important; it also can make global improvements in English. Furthermore, become error-free depends a great deal on the students’ desire for error-free work. We only have to help students to be