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Amy Maupin – English Journal, 2016
The nonfiction letter offers students an opportunity to study a dying art while also gaining insights about people, places, and eras. Teaching students the value of letters teaches community, caring, and connection. Whereas reading great works of literature can and does provide insight into life's purpose and meaning, the nonfiction text of a…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Nonfiction, Language Arts, Self Concept
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Belle, Crystal – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
Current scholarship suggests that many youths identify with hip-hop, especially youths of color. Study of this artistic form has been suggested as a means of helping youths acquire and become fluent in literacy practices. This article explores how the use of a hip-hop literacies curriculum addressed the literacy skills of urban ninth-grade English…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Music, Culturally Relevant Education, Minority Groups
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Yang, James H. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Drawing on critical pedagogy, this study challenges the hegemony of Standard English (SE) to promote inclusive approaches which recognise and tolerate the variation of World Englishes to prepare students for intercultural encounters with interlocutors speaking different varieties of English. To enhance students' ethno-sensitivity and receptive…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics
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Arifani, Yudhi – International Education Studies, 2016
Writing research proposal in educational setting is a very complex process involving variety of elements. Consequently, analyzing the complex elements from introduction to data analysis sections in order to yield convinced research proposal writing through reviewing reputable journal articles is worth-contributing. The objectives of this research…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Research Proposals, Proposal Writing, Teamwork
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Deirdre Faughey – English Journal, 2019
In this article Deidre Faughey shares an experimental classroom project that she developed with a diverse group of students in three ninth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) classes. Podcasts provide a unique opportunity for students to embrace experimentation and to take risks with their own voices, explore the school building and community, and…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Uretsky, Mathew C.; Stone, Susan – Children & Schools, 2016
Little is known about academic performance among homeless high school students, although correlates of academic performance are well documented among their peers in the elementary and middle school grades. This study explores the relationship between student-level demographic and academic performance indicators (for example, grade point average…
Descriptors: Homeless People, High School Students, Exit Examinations, Performance Factors
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Westgate, David; Hughes, Maureen – Education 3-13, 2016
In a previous phase of a project based in a group of UK primary schools, speaking and listening was found to be an effective focus for improved learning across the curriculum and for teachers' professional development. At the project's second stage and in the light of recently changed Department for Education guidelines, these findings have been…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Video Technology, Interviews, Diaries
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Greathouse, Paula – SRATE Journal, 2016
There are innumerable subcultures within American society, all of which come to interact within the walls of a school and all of which should be recognized and valued by the classroom teacher. This article shares secondary students' beliefs and attitudes about reading and studying lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or questioning (LGBTQ)…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Sex Role, Sexual Orientation
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Mulenga, Henry M.; Mukuka, Angel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
A case study presented here is an investigation into whether time of day for instruction has an effect on students' academic achievement in Mathematics, Science, Biology and English at school certificate level by focusing on the grades candidates obtained after sitting for national examinations. The focus is primarily on 33 randomly selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Secondary School Students, Females
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Kalata, Kristianne – CEA Forum, 2016
This essay describes the successes and challenges of skills-based literature survey courses in the small liberal arts college setting of Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA). It considers the overall purpose of the survey in the skills-based English curriculum and then focuses on the integration of literary theory and creative writing as means…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Skill Development, English Curriculum, Needs Assessment
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Shah, Muhammad Athar – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This article reports on a mixed-method research study into situated motivational conditions available for the English language (L2) pedagogy at a university in Saudi Arabia. The current study evaluated the L2 Learning Experience of the students by focusing on the key contextual factors that included teachers' pedagogical practices, group dynamics…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, English Curriculum, English (Second Language)
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Stacey A. Gibson – English Journal, 2017
At a time when some high school English classrooms erase and distort experiences and identities, it is vital for educators to explore pedagogies that provide radically reimagined forms of liberatory thought. This article explores ways the work of Coates can serve as "blueprint liberation" in the English classroom. The line of broken,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Decolonization, Student Behavior, Cultural Influences
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Hopf, Suzanne C.; McDonagh, Sarah H.; Wang, Cen; McLeod, Sharynne – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
Fiji is a multicultural and multilingual community and English is one language taught in Fiji schools. This study aimed to describe the English language proficiency of Fiji primary school students. Direct assessment measures of 75 students' English language (listening and speaking) and literacy (reading and writing) skills were obtained (Year 1: n…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Multilingualism
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Hernandez, Hjalmar Punla – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2016
Outcome-Based Education (OBE) demands innovative Instructional Designs (ID) in the 21st century. Being a descriptive-qualitative research, this paper aimed to (1) identify the ID used in the English language curricula of a private tertiary level institution in the Southern Luzon, Philippines, (2) determined the elements that the ID of the English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, English for Special Purposes, Business English
Kaya, Suat; Ok, Ahmet – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to provide a deep understanding about English Language Education Program to English teachers, students, curriculum designers and decision makers in Turkey. Recently, the Turkish educational system has gone through a transition from the 8+4 educational model to the new 4+4+4 model, which has led to an immediate need for the redesign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), English Curriculum
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