Professor Jack C. Richards - Writing in a second language

[@imadsarrakhi8021]

That was pretty amazing and summarized how we teachers should look at teaching writing as a skill. The process approach is the one that we are recommended to use nowadays in addition to a focus on practising writing functional essays in different genre and serving different purposes

[@imadsarrakhi8021]

This highlights the importance of writing as a process skill and not a product driven approach

[@samali_2293]

Thank you for your valuable tips

[@suzannejones1054]

Wish l understood what he was saying😡

[@shanazshah8235]

His explanation is so simple. Or your knowledge way too much advanced compared to this explanation

[@gregpringle1299]

Er... this is about 'second language writing in ENGLISH' from what I can tell.

[@jackcrichards6828]

Yes, as indicated in the title😂

[@gregpringle1299]

The title doesn't mention English at all. Does your talk have relevance to someone who, for instance, wants to write in Chinese as a second language? It's a great calling to help people write in English as a second language, but not including "English" in the title of your talk does betray certain Anglocentrism. @@jackcrichards6828​

[@bruzm.1737]

I'm not trying to talk down anyone or any field of study. I myself have BA in English and I've taught English for 6 years. Currently, I'm Studying for MA entrance exam for Applied Linguistics. Let me tell you something. Applied Linguistics does not have any readable, tidy, principled or hierarchical book explaining the field. These books, teachers and their articles just contradict each other with no reasonable excuses. Above 90% of the lierature is not based on scientific research styles. They're not even logical to begin with. Any other major tests a hypothesis. Then, decides if there's any truth in that. If good, the material will be kept and touched upon. If bad, the junk material will be somehow thrown away or reffered to for general knowledge. But in applied linguistics, it's the other way around.... They just tell you to read anything. And 70% of it is filled with contradictions or similar concepts and words/jargon. Why? Because if they omit the junk data, any applied linguistics book will be no more than 60 pages long. And they want 400-page books. Most of the time these books even fail to exemplify their abstract ideas. I mean, there's maybe 40% objectivity.