@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004167,
 author = {Hatakeyama, Yukako},
 journal = {語学研究},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {This paper reports the path the author took in teaching Theme Writing—an
academic writing course—in Winter Semester of the academic year 2013, where
all the students were re-takers and she tried to help them to overcome the
difficulties they faced. Based on the words of advice from the colleagues, writing
experts’ recommendations, and her own observation of the students, she
customized the lesson content and group work, implemented suggested writing
strategies from the literature, and communicated closely with the students. At the
end of the semester, 10 out of 13 students passed the course. This paper also
discusses how teachers may guide this group of students. It was found from the
survey that the students attributed their successful completion of the course to the
fact that they had more time to write and that they had strong motivation to pass.
The survey results also show that the students find research skills and abstract
thinking skills such as narrowing the topic, synthesizing sources, organizing a
paper to be most challenging. Implication as well as the limited applicability of
this study is discussed.},
 title = {Walking with the Re-takers of Theme Writing},
 volume = {29},
 year = {2015}
}