Hw..Teaching Practices for ESL Students

The following except is from the article titled Teaching Practices for ESL Students. This article is a Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal and my focus here is in the use of the first person in writing . I'd like to learn more about the usage of the first person in academic writing.

My classroom observations of main- stream teachers verified the perceptions that students shared with me in their inter- views. I did not observe the same degree of language expression and discussion by teachers with students in the mainstream classrooms. In classrooms where the teach- ers had strong didactic teaching styles, the teacher did the majority of the talking, silence was expected from all students, and there was a heavy reliance on worksheets or completed assignments from either the text- book or overhead projector. The ESL students I observed in these classrooms were seated in rows, rarely called upon to answer, and worked independently to complete their seatwork. The class pe- riod generally consisted of the following formula regardless of subject being taught: teacher gave quick verbal directions on the assigned material at the beginning of the
class period, students worked indepen- dently while the teacher sat behind a desk or graded papers, teacher went over the answers with students, students graded each other’s papers, teacher asked for grades aloud (sometimes), recorded grades, and then if there was time left in the period the teacher assigned another activity for the students to work on independently.