Joanne Struch Brazil Canada Knowledge Exchange
Channel: centregcs
Date: 2014-05-21

I am a student in my first year of the PhD program in Education at the University of Manitoba. My area of focus is Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). Although just at the start of my program, I am interested in post-secondary students' perceptions of academic writing and how those perceptions relate to the teaching of academic writing at a post-secondary level. My specific interest is in how students whose first language is not English perceive academic writing in the North American tradition and if or how their perceptions are shaped by the globalization of English through technology. My interest in this area stems from observations and experiences teaching ESL at a high school in Bulgaria and at a post-secondary institution in Canada.