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Riddell, Allen; Bassett, Troy J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Library digitization has made more than 100,000 nineteenth-century English-language books available to the public. Do the books that have been digitized reflect the population of published books? An affirmative answer would allow book and literary historians to use holdings of major digital libraries as proxies for the population of published…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Electronic Libraries, Novels
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Muñoz-Valdivieso, Sofía – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
The article reviews the evolution of Shakespeare studies over the last 50 years and proposes a narrative to trace its development since the commemoration of Shakespeare's birth in 1964 in three phases: first, the unfolding from the 1970s to the 1990s of what I have called the postmodern paradigm in Shakespeare studies, which I argue breaks with…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Trend Analysis, Drama
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Belal, Yamina; Ouahmiche, Ghania – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Given the acknowledged and undeniable advantages of literature in language education, it has been integrated into EFL curricula for undergraduate students as an essential subject. In the Algerian English departments before the reform introduced in the last two decades (the Licence, Master, doctorate system), literature used to have a privileged…
Descriptors: English Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chaka, Chaka; Lephalala, Mirriam; Ngesi, Nandipha – Perspectives in Education, 2017
This paper reports on a desktop review study of undergraduate and postgraduate English studies (both English literature and English language) module offerings (n = 48) of 24 English departments at 17 South African higher education institutions (HEIs) conducted in 2017. The review focused on the presence and purpose of the term, decolonisation, in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Foreign Policy, English Departments
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Rahman, Shukran Abdul; Manaf, Nor Faridah Abdul – English Language Teaching, 2017
Purpose: The study aims to (1) review the literature that analyses the relevance of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the teaching of creative and critical thinking among students in Malaysia, and (2) identify missing aspects in Bloom's Taxonomy vis a vis the indigenous context, important to promote creative and critical thinking among…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Koch, Bevan; Slate, John R.; Moore, George W. – Education and Urban Society, 2016
We compared the performance of Hispanic students from California, Texas, and Arizona on the two Advanced Placement (AP) English exams (i.e., English Language and Composition and English Literature and Composition) using archival data from the College Board from 1997 through 2012. Pearson chi-square tests yielded statistically significant…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, English Instruction, Language Tests, Writing Tests