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Modern Language Association, 2024
The Association of Departments of English (ADE) Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors' Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evidence of departments' effective strategies and curricular innovations for working with students on career…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English Instruction, Majors (Students), Career Development
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Martin East; David Slomp – Language Teaching, 2024
Both of us were drawn into the writing assessment field initially through our lived experiences as schoolteachers. We worked in radically different contexts -- Martin was head of a languages department and teacher of French and German in the late 1990s in the UK, and David was a Grade 12 teacher of Academic English in Alberta, Canada, at the turn…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers, French
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Jackson, Jeffrey E. – CEA Forum, 2018
This essay discusses the author's use of Charles Dickens's "Sketches by Boz" (1836-39) in an undergraduate Victorian literature and film class as a further way of expanding the possibilities for teaching film with literature. The article begins with a general discussion of Dickens's overall value to author Jeffrey Jackson's idea of the…
Descriptors: Literature, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Films
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McBride, Cherise; Smith, Anna; Kalir, Jeremiah Holden – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to re-center playfulness as a humanizing approach in teacher education. As teachers navigate the current moment of heightened control, surveillance, and systemic inequity, these proposed moves in teacher education can be transgressive. Rather than play as relegated to childhood or infancy, what does it look…
Descriptors: Play, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
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Nash, Brady L. – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
Audiobooks have been growing in popularity over the last decade. Although researchers have increasingly recognised the value of audiobooks as rich multimodal texts that support literacy engagement in classrooms, there have been few detailed pictures of classroom practice related to audiobooks. In this practitioner narrative, a secondary English…
Descriptors: Audio Books, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Teachers
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Amy Lawrence-Wallquist; Lucinda Ford; Mehmet Kirmizi; Cody Patterson – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2023
In 2003, the Texas State Legislature enacted the Texas Success Initiative (TSI). Upon entering a postsecondary institution, non-exempt students are tested using the TSI Assessment. A student's scores are used to assist Texas public institutions of higher education in determining if students are prepared for introductory college coursework in the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Freshmen, Student Evaluation, Introductory Courses
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Elizabeth Thackeray Nelson – English Journal, 2020
This article describes a community action student- led project that features authentic writing and engagement to increase motivation. The article highlights important instructional strategies for implementing community action projects and the resulting student learning. The article concludes with the authors' reflections and observations.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, High School Seniors, Learner Engagement
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Zoe Esterly; Hannah L. W. Swoyer; Bridget A. Draxler – Writing Center Journal, 2023
Language expresses our values and identities, but in educational spaces, multidialectical and multilingual students' voices are often silenced in favor of Standard English (Lockett, 2019). As writing tutors and future language arts educators, we have developed a research-based inclusive grammar curriculum and classroom-based resources to expand…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Grammar
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Joshua Hamilton – English Journal, 2019
This article describes a teacher's willingness to perform an autobiographical spoken word poem in his classroom, which provided an important model for students as they composed and shared their own slam-style poems.
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Poetry, Models, Self Expression
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Wonder, Kelly – English Teaching Forum, 2020
With the emphasis on building twenty-first-century skills in learners, English language teachers are challenged to find activities that will build English language proficiency while promoting higher-order thinking in the target language. One reason is that an individual learner's zone of proximal development (ZPD) for language proficiency and for…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Student Journals, 21st Century Skills, Skill Development
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Calvert, Eric; Olszeswki-Kubilius, Paula; Cross, Tracy L.; Cross, Jennifer R. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
Project OCCAMS (Online Consortium for Accelerating Middle School) developed and piloted an accelerated curriculum through a design-based research approach combining the Integrated Curriculum Model, principles of culturally responsive instructional design, and extensive compacting. The program created a pathway for diverse middle school students to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Middle School Students, Acceleration (Education)
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Brittany Rose Collins – English Journal, 2017
There is a large body of research regarding the affective and cathartic benefits of literature, both generalized and related to educational contexts. Anecdotal data carry special profundity and pertinence when considering issues of mortality. This article reviews current literature regarding the practices of reading and writing about death.…
Descriptors: Death, Literature, Reader Text Relationship, Grief
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Joanne O’Mara; Glenn Auld; Yin Paradies; Cassandra Alpium, Contributor; Meaghan Beaucaire, Contributor; Roxene Beech, Contributor; Brittany Bell, Contributor; Rebekkah Cranson, Contributor; Tim Delphine, Contributor; Paul Garner, Contributor; Erin Horton, Contributor; Jennifer Kernahan, Contributor; Catherine Milvain, Contributor; Alicia O’Keefe, Contributor; Martina Polaskova, Contributor; Douglas Rowell, Contributor; Stephanie Savopoulos, Contributor; Benjamin Taylor, Contributor; Kelvin Wong, Contributor; Melanie Whelan, Contributor; Leteasha Yamada, Contributor; Michael Ziemer, Contributor – English in Australia, 2022
The Australian Curriculum provides a warrant for all subject English teachers to enact the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Cross-curriculum priority (CCP). This priority is 'designed for all students to engage in reconciliation, respect, and recognition of the world's oldest continuous living cultures' (ACARA, n.d.-a).…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Mannix, Timothy – English in Australia, 2018
The study of English, like the teaching of English, is bound with thematic concerns of love. Notions of love, and the range of experiences that come with them, coalesce in learning spaces when both teachers and students analyse texts, unpack social issues, and construct arguments in daily teaching and learning practice. Within the broader social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English Teachers, English Instruction
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Miller, Dan L. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2021
Quotations yield the greatest insight from the fewest words. In addition to the wisdom and guidance quotations provide, teachers effectively use quotations in displays, presentations, speeches, research, writing prompts, classroom lessons, and discussions. Students employ quotations for speeches, classroom assignments, as sources of inspiration…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Teaching Methods, Student Interests, English Instruction
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