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Brianna R. Burke; Kristina Greenfield – English Journal, 2016
This article details a unit designed for a high school English classroom to address social injustice and the silencing of LGBTQ individuals. The authors believe teachers have a civic duty to help students become critically aware and informed citizens. Creating active citizens means fostering critical thinking skills relevant to the political…
Descriptors: High Schools, Social Justice, LGBTQ People, Language Arts
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Marcon, Nerissa; Faulkner, Julie – English in Australia, 2016
Digital games are positioned in literacy research as integral to contemporary youth culture and their potential as a learning resource continues to be explored in current literature. This paper examines the use of "Minecraft" as a pedagogical tool to motivate girls' literacy practices within the secondary English classroom. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation
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Bridgeman, Brent; Cho, Yeonsuk; DiPietro, Stephen – Language Testing, 2016
Data from 787 international undergraduate students at an urban university in the United States were used to demonstrate the importance of separating a sample into meaningful subgroups in order to demonstrate the ability of an English language assessment to predict the first-year grade point average (GPA). For example, when all students were pooled…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, English Curriculum, Language Tests, Undergraduate Students
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Geddes, Aaron J. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The main objective of this study was to identify the attitudes of Korean university students towards studying English and to determine if attending after-school English academies has had a negative impact on their attitudes towards studying English. The study also sought to determine if studying English leads to anxiety, and more importantly if…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Grossman, Jill; Cawn, Brad – New Leaders, 2016
The shift to the Common Core at the Lazaro Cardenas Elementary School, a pre-K to third grade school in a predominantly Latino area in southwest Chicago, rested on instructional improvement efforts Jeremy Feiwell initiated five years earlier in 2006, when he became Cardenas's principal. Feiwell knew from his years as a teacher at Cardenas that…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Alignment (Education)
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Ramezani, Raana; Larsari, Ebrahim Ezzati; Kiasi, Mohammad Aghajanzadeh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The current study sought to investigate the relationship between critical thinking and speaking ability among EFL students at Payame Noor University (PNU) of Rasht. This research concerned determining the fact that whether language students who are as critical thinker, perform better in their speaking ability or not. In order to answer the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Relationship
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Tran, Phuong – JALT CALL Journal, 2016
Mobile phone ownership among university students in Vietnam has reached almost 100%, exceeding that of Internet-capable desktop computers. This has made them increasingly popular to allow learners to carry out learning activities outside of the classroom, but some studies have suggested that learners are not always willing to engage in activities…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Vocabulary Development, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Manuel, Jackie; Carter, Don – English in Australia, 2016
This paper reports on the findings from a study with 22 early-career secondary school English teachers in New South Wales, Australia. Against the backdrop of increased attention to the patterns of teacher recruitment, retention and attrition, the present research sought beginning teachers' perspectives on the extent to which their initial…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, English Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers
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Hodgson, John – English in Education, 2017
This article reflects on the values and practices of a revolutionary A level (senior secondary) course that achieved a high degree of validity and reliability in assessing the study of English literature. John Hodgson and Bill Greenwell were involved in its teaching and assessment from an early stage, and Greenwell's comments on an early draft of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Validity, Reliability
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Ersanli, Ceylan Yangin – International Education Studies, 2016
Developing as teachers and optimizing learning experiences for future students is the ultimate goal in technology use in teacher education programs. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a five-week workshop and training sessions on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of pre-service English language teachers. The…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Dar, Fatima Rehan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The study addressed a cognitive-affective gap in a primary English curriculum and noticed whether the curriculum, texts and class activities utilized empathetic and pro-social themes in teaching English language. The findings from the document review, interviews and observations revealed that the said themes were underrepresented in the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, Primary Education, Elementary School Students
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Elexia Reyes McGovern – English Journal, 2016
Visible teaching invites educators to bring activist and change-agent identities directly into their teaching, working collaboratively with a community to enact sustainable, albeit constantly transforming, societal change. This article uses data from a year-long ethnographic study to paint a portrait of one Chicana veteran teacher who enacts an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Activism, Resistance (Psychology), Experienced Teachers
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Batdi, Veli; Elaldi, Senel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
The purpose of the study is to analyze high school English curriculum materials (ECM) through FACETS analysis and MAXQDA-11 programs. The mixed methods approach, both quantitative and qualitative methods, were used in three samples including English teachers in Elazig during the 2014-2015 academic year. While the quantitative phase of the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Runnels, Judith – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2016
Since its release in 1979 the TOEIC® (Test of English for International Communication) has been consistently and widely used by educational institutions and companies of Japan despite criticisms that it provides little useable information about language ability. In order to both reduce the extreme focus on and also aid with the practical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Curriculum, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Akst, Leslie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation is a qualitative study of a curriculum I designed for composition students in the Fall of 2012. The curriculum I created is informed by the Freirean edict that a self-generated desire to "create knowledge" is far more likely to result in meaningful, holistic learning than simply "banking" information. In the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, College Faculty, College English
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