This blog is a continuation of the previous blog about my students. I found this topic very interesting and it took a special focus while I am in the classroom. As you may see above, I designed a visual that describes my students and the content of the class. I did not use nationalities here because there is more to the student than his/her nationality or ethnicity. Besides, if I begin by labeling students with their ethnicities, I would be falling for stereotypes for explaining some of their reactions. For example, if I applied the label "Asian" to a Korean student essay, I fear that I would apply Kaplan's theory of "circular" writing and see that in the student essay. I do respect and honor their nationalities, but I do not define the students by them. What you see in the visual are some of the students' responses - I could not put all of the things that I found important in this visual. However, I placed as much as I could in it. Many of their responses I found helpful. Their opinion of this class is unique as most of them said that they are only taking it for the purpose of fulfilling a requirement. Some said that although they could have been in ENGL015, they preferred this class because they think that ESL015 would be much easier. Some students claim that their writing is super good, and they only need help with speaking. Other students, on the other hand, find their writing poor and wish to improve it. Some students seek to use their language in the future, while others are using it temporarily for the purpose of completing their education. I will leave you with the visual in the hope that it would illustrate to you the hidden nature of ESL classrooms. It is important to note that the instructor of the course did not have the students complete an information sheet early on in the semester. In addition, she has no access to the findings of the survey as the students believe that only I would have access to their responses.