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How To Communicate Politely and Be a Tutor, Too: NS-NNS Interaction and Writing Center Practice.

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Thonus, Terese – 1998

A discussion of communication between native English-speaking (NS) tutors and their non-native-speaker (NNS) students draws on a study conducted in the Indiana University writing center and focuses on conflicts between effectiveness in communication and effectiveness in instruction technique. Examples of tutor-student (NS-NNS) interaction are…

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