LANGUAGE CENTER - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
As a Tool for Academic Writing
Introduction | Google in Responding | Google in Writing Tutorials | Google in Writing Classes
Responding
Responding to the writing of English language learners is always a challenge, but Google can make the challenge a little more manageable. In my setting I use Google for two main purposes: 1) to understand what students are saying (or trying to say) if they use vocabulary that is unfamiliar to me and 2) to give me usage information when I am unsure whether they have made an error in grammar or word choice or when I question whether their word choice is conventional.
In the first case, I am pretty good at pretending to understand what my students are writing about, but many of them are engineers and...
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Definitions
The second situation is actually the most common--I am trying to offer corrections or improvements to the student's language forms.