摘要
This article presents case studies of three tutor/tutee dyads, focusing on the negotiation of tutor roles over a semester as part of a course requirement for MATESOL candidates. Tutors were enrolled in the course “Issues in Second Language Writing,” and tutees were ESL student volunteers. Data came from on-line discussions from the course, videotapes of tutoring sessions, tutors and tutees retrospective interviews, and the tutors final reflective papers for the course. Results indicate that the dyads negotiated relationships that differed from each other but were viewed as successful by those involved. For each dyad, different factors emerged as influential in negotiating the tutors role, including tutors and tutees beliefs about writing, tutees language proficiency, affective factors, and aspects of the tutorial setting.