An Analysis of the Role of the Facilitator in the Professional Writing Classroom

This paper intends to investigate the possible roles for teachers to facilitate the acquisition of written skills by professionals from the business community. Investigation into these roles involves looking at the traditional roles of teachers and outlining some of the commonly practised ones for...

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Main Author: Khatija Shamsudin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:https://samudera.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3872
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description This paper intends to investigate the possible roles for teachers to facilitate the acquisition of written skills by professionals from the business community. Investigation into these roles involves looking at the traditional roles of teachers and outlining some of the commonly practised ones for discussion purposes. The study seeks a profile of learner variables which may affect learning success in which facilitators need to take into consideration when designing a course and conducting classes. It also evaluates critically the traditional roles of teachers in terms or their strengths and weaknesses and discusses the implications for facilitators of professionals writing courses.
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spelling doaj-art-371c68ca32fb4664bfd31f2cf1b9f3e82024-11-22T04:47:02ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862017-07-0181An Analysis of the Role of the Facilitator in the Professional Writing ClassroomKhatija Shamsudin0University of Malaya, Malaysia This paper intends to investigate the possible roles for teachers to facilitate the acquisition of written skills by professionals from the business community. Investigation into these roles involves looking at the traditional roles of teachers and outlining some of the commonly practised ones for discussion purposes. The study seeks a profile of learner variables which may affect learning success in which facilitators need to take into consideration when designing a course and conducting classes. It also evaluates critically the traditional roles of teachers in terms or their strengths and weaknesses and discusses the implications for facilitators of professionals writing courses. https://samudera.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3872teachers's role;Professional Writinglearner variables
spellingShingle Khatija Shamsudin
An Analysis of the Role of the Facilitator in the Professional Writing Classroom
Journal of Modern Languages
teachers's role;
Professional Writing
learner variables
title An Analysis of the Role of the Facilitator in the Professional Writing Classroom
title_full An Analysis of the Role of the Facilitator in the Professional Writing Classroom
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title_short An Analysis of the Role of the Facilitator in the Professional Writing Classroom
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topic teachers's role;
Professional Writing
learner variables
url https://samudera.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3872
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