A new Chinese-English blogger
Hello, everyone. Happy New Year (Semester)!
My name is Mengtian Chen, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Second Language Acquisition. My academic research interest lies in the area of speech processing; writing is one of the weak points in my SLA knowledge base; I almost have no idea about the processes or the development of second language writing, its assessment, and its underlying mechanisms. Hopefully I can learn a lot from Professor Severino and the classmates in this class.
Chinese is my native language. I started to learn English when I was in primary school. I learned a little bit French during my undergraduate years, but I almost forgot everything. Now I did a lot of academic English writing, but I am still not good at it. What's worse, my Chinese academic writing skills seems to retrograde because I have not been writing Chinese papers for more than three years. I think it is interesting to explore language development as well as language attrition in writing. I am not a writing enthusiast. I like to write some micro-film scripts or poems in Chinese in my spare time, but I need to improve my academic English writing first to get my paper published.
I have been teaching Chinese as a second language since 2010, from beginning levels to fourth-year Chinese. I found writing to be much harder to improve than other language skills, such as reading, speaking, and listening. I have the same concern as a second language user of English. And that's one of the reasons I registered for this class; I want to know why and how we as teachers could help students improve their second language writing. Another difficult part is punctuation, which is almost neglected by teachers but still difficult for learners to acquire.
Hopefully we can have a wonderful time in our writing class this semester.
My name is Mengtian Chen, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Second Language Acquisition. My academic research interest lies in the area of speech processing; writing is one of the weak points in my SLA knowledge base; I almost have no idea about the processes or the development of second language writing, its assessment, and its underlying mechanisms. Hopefully I can learn a lot from Professor Severino and the classmates in this class.
Chinese is my native language. I started to learn English when I was in primary school. I learned a little bit French during my undergraduate years, but I almost forgot everything. Now I did a lot of academic English writing, but I am still not good at it. What's worse, my Chinese academic writing skills seems to retrograde because I have not been writing Chinese papers for more than three years. I think it is interesting to explore language development as well as language attrition in writing. I am not a writing enthusiast. I like to write some micro-film scripts or poems in Chinese in my spare time, but I need to improve my academic English writing first to get my paper published.
I have been teaching Chinese as a second language since 2010, from beginning levels to fourth-year Chinese. I found writing to be much harder to improve than other language skills, such as reading, speaking, and listening. I have the same concern as a second language user of English. And that's one of the reasons I registered for this class; I want to know why and how we as teachers could help students improve their second language writing. Another difficult part is punctuation, which is almost neglected by teachers but still difficult for learners to acquire.
Hopefully we can have a wonderful time in our writing class this semester.
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