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Beckie Bray Rankin; Nikki Prasad – NECTFL Review, 2024
Motivating students towards language learning includes embedding meaningful themes, communicative tasks, and authentic assessments. When voice and choice are held as essential qualities of the task, students invest in the resources to make meaning and express their own thoughts, thus moving us away from traditional assessments that emphasize…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hellmich, Emily; Castek, Jill; Smith, Blaine E.; Floyd, Rachel; Wen, Wen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: Multimodal composing is often romanticized as a flexible approach suitable for all learners. There is a lack of research that critically examines students' perspectives and the constraints of multimodal composing across academic contexts. This study aims to address this need by exploring high school learners' perspectives and experiences…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multiple Literacies, High School Students, Second Language Learning
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Ailhaud, Emilie; Chenu, Florence; Jisa, Harriet – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Revisions in writing aim at text improvement. Literature has shown that revision activity differs between novice and experienced writers. Our ultimate goal is to understand how children and adolescents develop the capacity to shift perspectives from language producer to language recipient -- a prerequisite ability to successful revision. In this…
Descriptors: French, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Simard, Daphnée; Guénette, Danièle; Bergeron, Annie – Language Awareness, 2015
The impact written corrective feedback (WCF) has on second language development is still a subject of much debate. While some believe it leads to improvement, others are more sceptical. But in order for WCF to lead to second language improvement, learners must first be able to not only correctly interpret the WCF but also understand the linguistic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
This document presents the proceedings of the 21st Annual Research Forum held June 30, 2016, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 11 action research papers: The Use of Mexican Folk Art to Develop Oral and Written Language Ability and Cultural Awareness in the Secondary Spanish Classroom (Antonio…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Action Research, Folk Culture, Oral Language
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Ritchie, Mathy; Black, Catherine – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
Improving university students' writing skills is always a challenge. In a third-year French composition course, the researchers introduced the use of public Internet discussion forums to see if that would help achieve the argumentative writing skills goals that were set for this study. The results show that participation in the forums had a…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Native Speakers, Internet, Writing (Composition)
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This document presents the proceedings of the 19th Annual Research Forum held June 26, 2014, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 17 action research papers: (1) Using Voices to Change Minds: Oral Performance and Poetry in the English Classroom (Erika Bunpermkoon), (2) Imagining Audiences: The Use…
Descriptors: Oral Interpretation, Poetry, English Instruction, Writing (Composition)
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
These Proceedings document an educational research forum held at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) on December 8, 2004. Table of contents and 26 research studies of high school teaching are included. Studies include: The Use of Authentic Materials in the K-12 French Program (Katherine Elizabeth Baird), Surveying Students: What…
Descriptors: French, Spanish, Ethnicity, Second Language Learning