Comments on: Everybody is a Native Speaker, Nobody is a Native Writer http://www.dailywritingtips.com/everybody-is-a-native-speaker-nobody-is-a-native-writer/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Rob Hartung http://www.dailywritingtips.com/everybody-is-a-native-speaker-nobody-is-a-native-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-57367 Rob Hartung Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:50:24 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1126#comment-57367 I teach at a Jr. High school in Japan and have noticed a few problems from switching between speaking and writing. In Japan, most Jr. High text books are filled with informal and conversational writing. They are often short skits and are filled with grammatically incorrect sentences (i.e. they lack a subject or there is an over use of contractions). The written form and the spoken form seem to be taken as the same thing. Students are being taught that sentence fragments are sentences albeit indirectly. I teach at a Jr. High school in Japan and have noticed a few problems from switching between speaking and writing. In Japan, most Jr. High text books are filled with informal and conversational writing. They are often short skits and are filled with grammatically incorrect sentences (i.e. they lack a subject or there is an over use of contractions). The written form and the spoken form seem to be taken as the same thing. Students are being taught that sentence fragments are sentences albeit indirectly.

]]> By: oliver ngutai http://www.dailywritingtips.com/everybody-is-a-native-speaker-nobody-is-a-native-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-53129 oliver ngutai Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:16:29 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1126#comment-53129 interesting,please i would like to get in touch with the site interesting,please i would like to get in touch with the site

]]> By: Maggie Turner http://www.dailywritingtips.com/everybody-is-a-native-speaker-nobody-is-a-native-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-52647 Maggie Turner Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:44:13 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1126#comment-52647 Your web site is excellent. I teach students from all over the world- including Engliand - to write essays in English academic language. They vary in skill from the Iranian and Russians to the undergrads with such heavy dialects that their spoken language doesn't sound like English often! Oh yes, and all of them are dyslexic! Thanks fro your help. This article is reassuring. Your web site is excellent. I teach students from all over the world- including Engliand – to write essays in English academic language. They vary in skill from the Iranian and Russians to the undergrads with such heavy dialects that their spoken language doesn’t sound like English often! Oh yes, and all of them are dyslexic! Thanks fro your help. This article is reassuring.

]]> By: cmdweb http://www.dailywritingtips.com/everybody-is-a-native-speaker-nobody-is-a-native-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-51949 cmdweb Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:39:54 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1126#comment-51949 Your point about losing the tone of voice is very important. The use, or overuse, of e-mail and resulting arguments can be a good illustration of this effect. Take a look at http://www.freewritingadvice.com/articles/index_files/email.htm if you want to see how I described this small part of your overall point. An excellent post as always (your's, that is, not mine). Your point about losing the tone of voice is very important. The use, or overuse, of e-mail and resulting arguments can be a good illustration of this effect. Take a look at http://www.freewritingadvice.c...../email.htm if you want to see how I described this small part of your overall point. An excellent post as always (your’s, that is, not mine).

]]> By: Miguel de Luis http://www.dailywritingtips.com/everybody-is-a-native-speaker-nobody-is-a-native-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-51640 Miguel de Luis Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:24:18 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1126#comment-51640 Hi Michael, You have given me a gift of hope. For some weird reason I started to write a blog novel in English, which is not my first language. Critics came, good and not so good. But when I read a critic telling me that they could not understand my writing, I was devastated. I felt I would never be able to learn to write fiction in English. Hi Michael,

You have given me a gift of hope. For some weird reason I started to write a blog novel in English, which is not my first language. Critics came, good and not so good.

But when I read a critic telling me that they could not understand my writing, I was devastated. I felt I would never be able to learn to write fiction in English.

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