Adams, Susan R. “Writing in the ESL Classroom: Confessions of a Guilty Teacher.” English
Journal. 98.3 (2009): 117-120. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. Adams realizes that ESL students need to understand what the goals are in the classroom and argues that teachers should demonstrate their own struggles and methods of writing in order for their students to realize that “we are all writers” (117). By dismantling song lyrics, poems, and jingles, the students realized that writing is hard work and does not come easily for most people, not even their teacher. The students were able to witness the writing process for “real writers,” by identifying what the authors’ were communicating by “clarifying their intentions with word choice, allusions, and sentence
Journal. 98.3 (2009): 117-120. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. Adams realizes that ESL students need to understand what the goals are in the classroom and argues that teachers should demonstrate their own struggles and methods of writing in order for their students to realize that “we are all writers” (117). By dismantling song lyrics, poems, and jingles, the students realized that writing is hard work and does not come easily for most people, not even their teacher. The students were able to witness the writing process for “real writers,” by identifying what the authors’ were communicating by “clarifying their intentions with word choice, allusions, and sentence