Gen 1.5 writers

I don’t know how many Hispanic Gen 1.5 students I’ll be working with at OSU, but I don’t want to lose track of some of the articles I’ve found/used over the last couple years.
Barr, Linda. “Culture: Expectations and Differences, Generation 1.5 Students” in “Tutoring the ESL Student” an online workshop by ATP (Association of Tutoring [...]

incoherent subordination?????

This summer I’ve been working with a Gen 1.5 student whose struggles with English are different from most of the other Gen 1.5ers I’ve worked with. I myself am struggling with how to describe her struggles.
It’s not so much that she uses faulty predication as incoherent predication or may be incoherent subordination.??
Almost every time [...]

Cna yuo raed tihs?

My mom forwarded this to me today. Interesting.  Makes me wonder if one of the reasons dyslexia can be such a problem for readers is because their brains scramble the letters so that the first and last letters are no longer in their original places.  When their brains scramble only the inner-letters, maybe that’s when [...]

plagiarism (on not rushing to judgment)

Just had one of those consultations which remind me how careful you have to be about assuming a student has plagiarized.  This English 70 student (at YVCC, English 70 and 75 are the two developmental writing courses below English 101 Freshman composition) wrote a two-page summary of A&E’s version of Pride and Prejudice which sounded [...]

“Older students fill most of the seats in CTC pre-college courses”

Isn’t this the best way to gather data!  I was posting some V-Day signs on the doors of Anthon 102 for Dodie today and found a couple of hand-outs left behind in the room. 
“More than 75 percent of the students taking pre-college courses have been out of high school for 4 or more years.”  Older [...]

dyslexia and punctuation

I just worked with a DVWRI 41 student (YVCC has three levels of pre-college writing: DVWRI 41, ENGL 70, and ENGL 75). He asked for punctuation help, so I went over his two-page “why I came to college” essay sentence by sentence. At the end of it, I felt like not much of what I’d [...]