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| Houpt, Sheri | 1 |
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Peer reviewedHoupt, Sheri – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
The use of foreign language classroom conversation as a prewriting exercise, to help students discover composition topics, discuss the pros and cons, shape the narrative or thesis, and gather detail in a coherent way, launches the composition process and makes the homework of writing and proofreading more interesting and initially less difficult.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Creative Writing, Discussion, Homework
