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A SYNTACTICAL APPROACH FOR TEACHING WRITING TO ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE HISPANIC COLLEGE STUDENTS
Abstract
Most of the pedagogical efforts in the field of English as a Second-Language teaching of this century have been devoted to the skills of speaking, listening, and reading. The development of appropriate methodologies for teaching the skill of ESL writing has been neglected until recently. This dissertation addresses itself to this area. Its focus has been the development of a new approach to teach the writing of simple sentences to elementary ESL Hispanic college students using syntax as a pedagogical tool. The study is based on the assumption that one basic problem elementary ESL college students encounter when writing sentences is that they use their native-language syntax to construct sentences with the lexical and grammatical English structures they have acquired. To avoid this situation, the approach purports to help the students in the transition from thinking in the native language to writing in English. The study was conducted in the Eugenio Mar(')ia de Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. A specially designed manual was developed for the study. The manual was field tested with four groups of ESL Hispanic College students, two groups each of low elementary and high elementary ESL students. The dissertation analyzes the results of the study and presents recommendations for further study.
Subject Area
Bilingual education|Multicultural education
Recommended Citation
KEYES, JOSE LUIS, "A SYNTACTICAL APPROACH FOR TEACHING WRITING TO ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE HISPANIC COLLEGE STUDENTS" (1983). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI8310302.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8310302