Monthly Archives: April 2016
A Great Way to End The Winter Quarter
Lots of certificates for level completion and excellent attendance were awarded to ESL students last night. A special note of appreciation to the ESL teachers at the Siler City Center : Amanda and Johnny. See you all after the spring break! 🙂
The writing skill most foreign language teachers don’t teach: interactional writing
1.What is writership?
Chatting online or texting via SMS, WATSAPP, etc. has become part and parcel of our daily life, the verb and noun ‘chat’ alluding to the fact that although we are writing we are in fact ‘talking’ to someone. Just like in a face-to-face conversation when chatting online we have to respond to our interlocutor in real time if we want to ‘stay’ in the conversation and, most importantly, if we want to keep him or her engaged.
Since in real-life face-to-face communication applied linguists refer to interactionallistening as ‘Listenership’ I will henceforth call the set of skills involved in interactional writing: ‘Writership’.
Listenership and Writership have many similarities in terms of the cognitive processes they involve. There are, however, important differences, too. Besides the most obvious difference , i.e. the fact that  communication does not happen through the oral medium, there is another…
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ESL at Central Carolina Community College 