Date of Award
10-2019
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
English: Teaching English as a Second Language: M.A.
Department
English
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
James Robinson
Second Advisor
Choonkyong Kim
Third Advisor
James Heiman
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
academic writing, ESL writing courses, TA, belief, knowledge
Abstract
The purpose of this study is: (1) to develop a comprehensive model that describes TAs’ beliefs and knowledge about ESL writing courses in a categorized manner and (2) to examine the categories of TAs’ beliefs and knowledge and find the relations between them, with the goal of better harmonizing TAs’ beliefs and knowledge and consequently developing the ESL writing program in a university. The participants were nine TAs enrolled in the MA TESL program in the university. Data was gathered through one-on-one semi-structured interview, and a comprehensive model with nine categories of TAs’ beliefs and knowledge was developed. The model showed that seven of the categories were connected well with each other; however, the other two categories were not well connected to the others. In this paper, the TAs’ beliefs and knowledge is described according to the nine categories, and following this, the two disconnected categories are close looked at and the implications are considered.
Recommended Citation
Hayashi, Seiko, "TAs’ Beliefs and Knowledge about Teaching Academic Writing in ESL Writing Courses" (2019). Culminating Projects in TESL. 23.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/tesl_etds/23
