Being allowing and yet directive: Mindfulness meditation in the teaching of developmental reading and writing

Because learning to meditate shares important qualities with learning to be a better reader and writer—for example, dispassionate noticing, becoming more aware of inner processes, a faith in inner wisdom, effort made with a light touch, the cultivation of a practice through simple, regular doing—practice in mindfulness meditation was used to help incoming community college ESL students become more reflective in their writing and more deliberate in their reading practices.