Drawbacks of Teaching and Learning Academic Writing at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at HCMC Open University
Methods of teaching and learning Academic Writing has been a heated phenomenon in research around the world during the last decades in which approaches of writing pruducts or writing process were in debates. However, few research studies have been conducted at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội |
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| Online Access: | https://journalofscience.ou.edu.vn/index.php/soci-vi/article/view/813 |
| Summary: | Methods of teaching and learning Academic Writing has been a heated phenomenon in
research around the world during the last decades in which approaches of writing pruducts or
writing process were in debates. However, few research studies have been conducted at the
Faculty of Foreign Languages of HCMC OU to explore the drawbacks of teaching activities
employed in the writing classrooms. Qualitative and quantitative analysis indicates that though
the lecturers provided variety of writing practices to help students improve their writing skills,
the writing topics delivered by the lecturers were not in students’ interests. Lecturer feedback
focused much on the ‘surface’ of the writing. Also, the lecturers did not train students to know
how to provide comments on each other’s essays, which might help the lecturers reduce the
amount of work that they had to deal with big-size classes in the process of evaluating the
students’ writings. Finally, almost no lecturer assigned students to do writing projects during the
writing courses. The study points out some essential guidelines to help undergraduate students
overcome their difficulties in learning Academic Writing. |
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| ISSN: | 2734-9349 2734-9616 |