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As can be seen in Table 1, the pre-service teachers had diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. 2 Selection of the pre-service teachers, while not designed to be representative, provided a broad student teacher perspective on issues related to teaching ESL writing. The participants represented a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. Seven were native English speakers. Five were second language speakers of English, with Korean, French and Portuguese as their first language backgrounds. While two teach- ers had some limited experience teaching writing to high school students and adults, the others basically had no experience in teaching writing. The students, all of whom were adult English language learners, also had. | TEFL TESL Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language Peace Corps Information Collection Exchange M0041 INFORMATION COLLECTION EXCHANGE Peace Corps Information Collection Exchange ICE was established so that the strategies and technologies developed by Peace Corps Volunteers their co-workers and their counterparts could be made available to the wide range of development organizations and individual workers who might find them useful. Training guides curricula lesson plans project reports manuals and other Peace Corps-generated materials developed in the field are collected and reviewed. Some are reprinted as is others provide a source of field based information for the production of manuals or for research in particular program areas. Materials that you submit to the Information Collection Exchange thus become part of the Peace Corps larger contribution to development. Information about ICE publications and services is available through Peace Corps Information Collection Exchange 1111 20th Street NW Washington DC 20526 USA Website http Telephone 1-202-692-2640 Fax 1-202- 692-2641 Add your experience to the ICE Resource Center. Send materials that you ve prepared so that we can share them with others working in the development field. Your technical insights serve as the basis for the generation of ICE manuals reprints and resource packets and also ensure that ICE is providing the most updated innovative problem-solving techniques and information available to you and your fellow development workers. Prepared for the Peace Corps by the Center for Applied Linguistics under Contract No. PC-888-2244A May 1989. This Manual may be reproduced and or translated in part or in full without payment of royalty. Please give standard acknowledgment. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank JoAnn Crandall of the Center for Applied Linguistics and John Guevin and David Wolfe of the Peace Corps for their valuable editorial comments. We would also like .