Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (May 2021)

Not One Space for Y

  • Lynn Chawengwongsa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.52214/salt.v21i1.8386
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 1

Abstract

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I see Y reading the comments her teacher left on her paper. She uses Google Translate to add perfectly spelled words clarifying a detail about her grandmother’s aspiration to become literate. At least this is how I imagine Y to have prepared her college essay. I have not met Y. But I am certain that she never expected her writing to be the focus of a teachers’ planning meeting.