The present study focuses upon how ESL students feel about the placement options available to them for first-year composition classes at a public university in the northwestern United States. The present study has confirmed several weaknesses of the mainstream composition class. One is a general disregard for some of the affective needs of ESL learners, in other words, factors dealing with such things as emotional reactions and motivations of learners. Another weakness of the mainstream option is the effect of the unfamiliarity of instructors and/or native English-speaking classmates with the...
The present study focuses upon how ESL students feel about the placement options available to them for first-year composition classes at a public univ...