Writing in a New Environment: Saudi ESL Students Learning Academic Writing

This qualitative case study sought to gain a deeper understanding of the obstacles that students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia face when learning English in a writing course that implements critical thinking and writing process pedagogy. The study took place over five months at the Virginia Tech...

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Main Author:	Saba, Maggie Sami
Other Authors:	English
Format:	Others
Published:	Virginia Tech 2015
Subjects:	critical thinking writing ESL
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54012

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spelling	ndltd-VTETD-oai-vtechworks.lib.vt.edu-10919-540122020-09-29T05:35:35Z Writing in a New Environment: Saudi ESL Students Learning Academic Writing Saba, Maggie Sami English Carter-Tod, Sheila L. Fowler, Shelli B. George, Diana L. Belanger, Kelly R. Paredes, Elsie Elena critical thinking writing ESL This qualitative case study sought to gain a deeper understanding of the obstacles that students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia face when learning English in a writing course that implements critical thinking and writing process pedagogy. The study took place over five months at the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute in spring 2012. While ten participants--six female and four male Saudi Arabian ESL students--participated in this study, these findings focus primarily on one male and one female student. The aim of this focus was to give a rich and in-depth description of the two students. Two main queries guided this study: 1) How do sex differences affect Saudi students' perception of their teachers' and peers' authority? 2) How do those perceptions affect their development as writers and critical thinkers when learning in an intensive writing course at the high intermediate level? The researcher documented data through three sources: classroom observation, interviews with ESL students and teachers, and student writing samples. Ph. D. 2015-07-04T06:00:28Z 2015-07-04T06:00:28Z 2014-01-09 Dissertation vt_gsexam:2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54012 In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ETD application/pdf Virginia Tech
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description	This qualitative case study sought to gain a deeper understanding of the obstacles that students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia face when learning English in a writing course that implements critical thinking and writing process pedagogy. The study took place over five months at the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute in spring 2012. While ten participants--six female and four male Saudi Arabian ESL students--participated in this study, these findings focus primarily on one male and one female student. The aim of this focus was to give a rich and in-depth description of the two students. Two main queries guided this study: 1) How do sex differences affect Saudi students' perception of their teachers' and peers' authority? 2) How do those perceptions affect their development as writers and critical thinkers when learning in an intensive writing course at the high intermediate level? The researcher documented data through three sources: classroom observation, interviews with ESL students and teachers, and student writing samples. === Ph. D.
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Writing in a New Environment: Saudi ESL Students Learning Academic Writing

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