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Writing in the ESL Classroom: Confessions of a Guilty Teacher Susan R. Adams Source//: English// Journal v93 n3 p117-120 2009

Review When Susan Adams started to teach ESL for the first time, she noticed her students hated to have anything that had to do with writing more than a few sentences, so she avoided making them write for her class. After attanding a three week long writing institute, she realized that she has failed her students by not teaching them how to write. She transformed her entire curriculum focusing on writing. As a class, they started to analyze poems, write their own poems, help each other find the right words to say and even write stories. She realized that she just needed to stick with helping her students learn to write. They became proud of writing. She encourages others to do the same with their students, to show them that it does take time for professionals to write as well, but that we are all writers.