MACK Lindsay    Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Center for Language Education    Position   Associate Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2012/01
Type	Research paper (Academic/Professional Journal)
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	Reflective Journals in EFL Tutoring
Contribution Type	Single Work
Journal	The Journal of Asia TEFL
Volume, Issue, Page	9(4),pp.165-189
Details	As Writing Centers begin to expand from the West to new international contexts, L2 tutors, instead of native speaker tutors, are now being hired. These tutors face distinct problems in tutoring EFL students and little research has been done on the types of challenges these tutors encounter or the implications these issues have for tutor development. This paper examines the types of problems L2 writing tutors face when tutoring EFL students and the role reflective journals plays in understanding these issues. Data was collected from five L2 writing tutors in the form of nine reflective journal entries, per tutor, over a two month period making for 45 in total. The results show that tutors had difficulty in distinguishing between lower order concerns (LOC) and higher order concerns (HOC).
URL for researchmap	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287044124_Reflective_Journals_in_EFL_tutoring