"... daily media opportunities to share their thoughts with the world, and it's very
hard to see how all this contrives to make them ... In one study, the Swedish
physiologist Bengt Saltin compared a group of Kenyan distance runners with a
group of ..."
Persons in Process Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College (Refiguring English Studies) by Anne J. Herrington, MarciaSmithCurtis Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 2000 by Natl Council Of Teachers ISBN-13: 978-0-8141-3512-9, ISBN: 0-8141-3512-9
"Still, Nam's experience does accord with what some other studies have shown,
and these correspondences are worth noting. According to him, in elementary
school, he had been taught English through decontextualized exercises and
found them lacking when it came to actually writing something: "But writing a
paragraph, I have no idea how the words like 'was' or 'were' or 'is' fit." Danling Fu,
in My Trouble Is My English: Asian Students ..."
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