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Removing computer phobia from the writing classroom
working for the past year at Richmond College, the American International University in London, as the Word Processing Co-ordinator in the English Language Development programme. She received her BA from Harvard and her MA in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she worked as a Freshman Writing teacher, winning several awards for excellence in teaching; she also trained graduate students to teach writing across the curriculum. She is a working writer and published poet.
Director of the English Language Development programme at Richmond College. She has twice been a prize-winner in the English Speaking Union's English Language Competition. Apart from her interest in English for Academic Purposes, much of her research has been into English as an international language, and intercultural communication. She is committed to combining the best practices from both sides of the Atlantic in the teaching of writing to undergraduates across the curriculum.
Computer phobics among teachers of writing to L2 students should take heart. Experience in institutions in the United States has shown what a valuable aid to teaching even basic word processing can be. We should be able to use their example without defensiveness, adapting it to our own circumstances. Strategies employed in an American university in the United Kingdom could well be employed by other institutions attempting to meet a mandate for computer use in their programmes. The computer has to be recognized as a teaching tool rather than a technological threat.
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