TY - JOUR
T1 - Group workshops
T2 - saving our writing centre in Japan
AU - McKinley, James
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - Writing centers in universities across Japan are on the rise. These centers are commonly understood to be for remedial language help, deterring students confident with their language ability from attending. Over the past few years the number of student appointments at our writing center had been decreasing. Students were expressing no need for the center since, in their understanding, it was meant only for correcting grammar. To increase awareness of the writing center, we decided to conduct workshops to provide basic frameworks for learning aspects of writing outside of grammar. Since running the workshops, reservations for tutorials have been increasing, suggesting the workshops to be successful.
AB - Writing centers in universities across Japan are on the rise. These centers are commonly understood to be for remedial language help, deterring students confident with their language ability from attending. Over the past few years the number of student appointments at our writing center had been decreasing. Students were expressing no need for the center since, in their understanding, it was meant only for correcting grammar. To increase awareness of the writing center, we decided to conduct workshops to provide basic frameworks for learning aspects of writing outside of grammar. Since running the workshops, reservations for tutorials have been increasing, suggesting the workshops to be successful.
UR - http://sisaljournal.org/archives/dec11/mckinley/
UR - http://sisaljournal.org/archives/dec11/mckinley/
M3 - Article
SN - 2185-3762
VL - 2
SP - 292
EP - 303
JO - Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
JF - Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
IS - 4
ER -