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Download full textWilliams, Todd O. – Inquiry, 2003
Understanding why mistakes are made in a class of ESL students not only helps teachers emend the mistakes, but also enables them to better explain to the author how to correct mistakes in future writing. When a teacher shows some understanding of a writer's native language, it makes the writer feel more comfortable with, and less alienated from,…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Syntax, English (Second Language), English
