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Download full textJacobs, George M.; Yong, Seah-Tay Hui – Online Submission, 2004
This article offers ideas as to how students can collaborate as they learn about and utilize a variety of text types (also known as rhetorical modes). The article begins with explanations of the teaching of text types and cooperative learning. The longest section of the article consists of examples of ways that students can use cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
Jacobs, George M. – Online Submission, 2008
Projects are not new in education (for example, see Kilpatrick, 1918), but in the last 20 years, they seem to have become more popular in second language education, as projects fit with emphases on communication, tasks, cooperation among students, learner autonomy, curricular integration, alternative assessment, links between the classroom and the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities
Jacobs, George M.; Charles, Gilbert C.; Goldstein, Sue; Olsen, Winn-Bell J. – Online Submission, 1997
Group activities are becoming more and more popular in the teaching of second/foreign languages and other subjects in Thailand and around the world. Since about 1970, a great deal of work has gone into research and methodology in order to develop ways that teachers can help their students learn more effectively and happily in groups. Many people…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, Language Usage
Magee, Vicky Y. G.; Jacobs, George M. – Online Submission, 2001
This study examined the talk of 20 university level learners of Mandarin as a Second Language in three instructional modes: teacher-led (TL), unstructured group work (UGW), and structured group work using a cooperative learning technique (SGW), in this case, Jigsaw. Statistical analyses showed that more learner talk (in terms of turns and c-units)…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
