dc.contributor.advisor | Klemp, Annette | |
dc.contributor.author | Otto, Justin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-13T19:29:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-13T19:29:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-12-18 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/70200 | |
dc.description | Plan B Paper. 2014. Master of Arts-TESOL--University of Wisconsin-River Falls. English Department. 65 leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-65). | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines narrative writing in English as a foreign language (EFL)
classrooms, and then presents a series of lesson plans for teaching how to write biographies
as factual narratives. These lesson plans would appear in a writing class for students
attending a university in East Asia. While my interest in this subject stems from my
background in social work, the specific requirements for similar writing tasks in healthcare
and human services professions are not addressed here. Instead, I am providing a general
approach to writing biographies, and this provides a foundation for other tasks such as
providing written background information about elderly patients. In human services
settings, it is uncommon to write about someone as illustrious as Audrey Hepburn, but she is
the sample subject in my lesson plans. As an enduring cultural icon, Hepburn's image is
already familiar to English students in many parts of the world. Hepburn is also chosen here
to help students understand that the fame of an individual should not interfere with an
accurate account of this individual's life. In the genre of biography any subject is held to
the same rules: in the words of Leon Edel, "the biographer who worships his hero blinds
himself to the meaning of his material." | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers | |
dc.subject.lcsh | English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers | |
dc.title | Biography writing in English as a foreign language | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.level | MA | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | TESOL | en |