The running metaphor. Talent vs. practice. It is amazing to see how much these students eat this up. They are so interested and responsive. A response to a text, an evaluation, tells us more about the reader than the writer.
Every human being has talent with regard to language.
We are all creative with language. Every person can write something new that has never been done before. Michael Jordan could not make the high school basketball team when he was a freshman. That is why teachers can't and shouldn't make judgements about what a student will or will not do. In Lattakia Crazy experience.