write a dialogue in about 150-200 words between two teachers sharing details about an educational tour for their students during the winter break
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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY1
DIALOGUE WRITING: ANALYSIS OF STUDENT-TEACHER
INTERACTIVE WRITING IN THE LEARNING OF
ENGLISH. AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
This study presents dialogue journal writing as an effective
practice with students learning English as a .second language (ESL) and
analyzes the dialogue journal interaction of six sixth grade students
who are beginning ESL learners and their teacher. A dialogue journal
is a bound notebook in which students write regularly, as much as they
wish and about anything they wish. The teacher responds to each student
entry. Thus, they carry on a "conversation" n writing. The kinds of
writing that occur can be as diVerse as the studentS. They describe
their activities, feelings and attitudes, ask questi ns, seek advice,
argue their points, and even Complain.
The data base for the study is the daily dialogue journal
writing for ..a ten-month period (from September to June) of the six stu-
dents and their teacher in a classroom in Los Angeles. The students are
in a classroom of 27 students from 12 countries and 10 language
backgrounds. The first languages of the students chosen for the study
are: Korean (3), Vietnamese/Chinese (1), Burmese (1), and Italian (1).
These students had been in the United States for l ss than one year when
1' This study was funded by the National Insti
NIE-G-83-0030, Joy Kreeft and Roger W. Shuy Princi
Jana Staton, Leslee Reed and Robby Morroy, Center
Washington, D.C., 1983 - 1984.
ute of Education,
al Investigators, with
r Applied Linguistics,