The Field Of Tesol, The Causes And Prevention Of Plagiarism

Title Discuss a current controversy in the field of TESOL, the causes and prevention of plagiarism, taking into account the academic debate and your own experience as a teacher/learner, and giving your own views. In your discussion you should refer to the articles indicated below and two other sources you identify for yourself. †¢ Sowden, C. (2005a) Plagiarism and the culture of multilingual students in higher education abroad. ELT Journal, 59(3), 226-233. †¢ Liu, D. (2005) Plagiarism in ESOL students: is cultural conditioning truly the major culprit? ELT Journal, 59(3), 234-241. †¢ Sowden, C. (2005b) Reply to Dilin Liu. ELT Journal, 59(3), 242-3. Introduction As plagiarism of multilingual students arouses increasing consideration of public (Swoden, 2005a), there are controversies concerning causes and preventions of this immoral academic practice. TESOL would be considered as a suitable standpoint to analyze the plagiarism issue of students of other languages, for it involves a great percentage of international students and uses essay to be the major form of assessment. This paper analyzes the debate of Swoden (2005) and Liu (2005) about reasons and preventions of plagiarism in the field of TESOL. Related references and personal experience will be mentioned as supports. Causes and Prevention of Plagiarism Plagiarism is defined as â€Å"using of ideas, concepts, words or structures without appropriately acknowledging the source to benefit in a setting where originality is