Reflection of Hinkel's Culture in Second Language teaching and Learning :: Ch. 4 Kachru's Culture, Context, and Writing and Ch. 6 Harklau's Representing Culture in the ESL Writing Classroom

Culture reflects in writing. In my opinion, any form for communication reflects culture. With that, is it okay for the teacher to correct the student's writing style? Is it acceptable for the students to reflect their culture through their writing? In my personal opinion, it should not. However, does that disable a student from perfecting their form of communication to become an NES writer?

Topics are also important for the students to write about. If the student cannot relate to the topic, and the topic is supposedly something the students can relate to, it is definitely not a good choice for the student. Therefore, the product of the writing will not be exactly what the teacher is looking for. Instead, it would be a made up story or a story half-told. As teachers, we need to understand the students by knowing some topics cannot be written about simply because it has never been experienced by the students.

Should students separating we and them as in Americans and people from their home country, respectively, know they are separating themselves, unconsciously, from their home country? Maybe the students are not separating themselves, but rather, locating themselves. "We" as in Americans because the student is in the States; "them" as in their home country also saying that they are not in the country?

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