Student Text Analysis and Its Pedagogical Implications for South Korean English Teachers

Student Text Analysis and Its Pedagogical Implications for South Korean English Teachers

  Often texts written by Korean students are difficult to process. This article analysed the processing problems of one particular student text. In the analysis, the essay provided brief background information on the writing and then examined the text by looking at the nature of the student"s text and using several theoretical discourse frameworks. Next, a rewrite of the student"s writing, in a more acceptable form, was partially presented and discussed. Finally, pedagogical implications of the analysis looked at focusing on the reader, patterns in English text, clause relationships and the genre.