Lending a Sensitive Ear: Examining Rhetorical Listening as Heuristic for ESL Students in Composition Classrooms

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Lending a Sensitive Ear Examining Rhetorical
Listening as Heuristic for ESL Students in
Composition Classrooms
Melanie Santarossa English Graduate
Student University of Windsor
12 May 2009
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• Because what exactly does it mean for a
  
• student to be ESL?
• -Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, English May Be My
  Second Language, but Im Not ESL, 8.

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• How do you approach difference in your classrooms?

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Sensitivity entails an instructors
ability to recognize that the
linguistic form that a student brings to school
is intimately connected with loved ones,
community, culture and personal
identity -Lisa Delpit, Other
Peoples Children Cultural
Conflict in the Classroom, 53.
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• Englishassimilation

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• Contrastive rhetoric is the study of the
  discourse patterns and features of writers from
  different language backgrounds
• -Carlo Severino, Introduction to Contrastive
  Rhetoric from Writing in Multicultural Settings,
  1.

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• Rhetorical Listening allows for cross-cultural
  communication
• -Krista Ratcliffe, Rhetorical Listening
  Identification, Gender, Whiteness, 19.

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• As instructors grade we are usually
  evaluating, judging, ranking whereas when
  responding, we are often suggesting, free
  association, playing
• -Lad Tobin, Writing Relationships, 71.

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• Why should we care who our students are?

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Contact me Melanie Santarossa Email
santar2_at_uwindsor.ca

• Thanks so much.