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Marlatt, Rick – Research in Drama Education, 2020
This article describes a connected learning project in which preservice teachers practice technology integration with the teaching of Shakespeare. Digitised Shakespeare pedagogy is often overlooked as a vital component for developing teachers who explore individual passions by constructing interactive spaces where personal interests and digital…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, English Literature
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Chang, Anna C.-S.; Renandya, Willy A. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
The study investigated L2 learners' perceptions of narrow reading. Thirty-two students finished four sets of graded readers organized by the same author with the same genre and same title, or random texts. After finishing each set of three graded readers, the students answered an eight-item questionnaire and wrote their reading feedback. Linear…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Protopopova, Darya – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
A descendant of Chekhov's extended family, Darya Protopopova has always loved all things literary. When she found out that Chekhov was popular with British modernist writers, she decided to do a master's and then a doctorate in English modernism at the University of Oxford. Having completed both, she chose to spread her love for English literary…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, English Teachers, Doctoral Degrees
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Dibavar, Sara Saei; Ahmadzadeh, Shideh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In "Wuthering Heights," Brontë provides us with the opportunity to meet two writing subjects; Emily Brontë herself and her character Catherine Earnshaw. Both these writers resist and challenge the authority of the patriarchal. Their different methods of interaction, though, cause one to fail and the other one to succeed. The objective of…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Figurative Language
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Hodgson, John – English in Education, 2017
John Dixon's book "Growth through English" (1967) is both an account of the four-week Anglo-American seminar on the teaching of English held in Dartmouth, New Hampshire, in 1966 and a seminal text in English studies. Fifty years later, its holding concept of "growth" remains significant to the identity of the profession…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Authors, Books, Seminars
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Al-Haj, Ali Albashir Mohammed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present study aims at reconsidering critically Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim." Joseph Conrad is a great master of English prose who writes normally of the sea, of the Eastern islands, of the English character as seen against a background of the exotic or faced with difficulties. The power of Conrad's feelings for Jim, as well as the…
Descriptors: Authors, Novels, English Literature, Literary Devices
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Karim, Shah Mohammad Sanaul; Fathema, Fawzia; Hakim, Abdul – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Dr. Faustus is the greatest but the most controversial of Marlowe's plays. Among the causes of controversy, whether Dr. Faustus is an atheist or theist deserves utmost attention. This paper is intended to deal with the issue. Though at various stages of the development of the action, Dr. Faustus abjures Trinity, resorts to necromancy, becomes…
Descriptors: English Literature, Drama, Literary Devices, Beliefs
Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2015
While British Romantic literature provides ample evidence of the pleasures of knowledge, it also reveals strong counter-evidence of its power to inflict a sense of intellectual impairment and diminution. This Romantic ambivalence sprang from a complex of ideas and anxieties about the potentially corrosive effects of certain kinds of education and…
Descriptors: English Literature, Self Concept, Educational Philosophy, Educational Attitudes
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Monk, Jonathan – English in Education, 2017
This teaching and learning investigation draws on two adjacent chapters of Zadie Smith's novel (2012). The first chapter delineates one character's journey through north-west London as plotted by the directions feature of Google Maps, while the next chapter focalises this perspective at street level. Ten classes across three year groups conducted…
Descriptors: Authors, Novels, English Literature, Teaching Methods
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Haque, Farhana – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
In "Mansfield Park," Jane Austen has exhibited the English identity lies on property earned by the slave trade in Caribbean Islands. If we go deep inside of the history of Britain we could able to see their awareness and concern over a national identity, and consider American colonies a poor reflection on Britain. The traits of British…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, English Literature, Indians, Literature
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Davison, Colin – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
The first full biography of Ursula Moray Williams has been published to mark the centenary of her birth. In this article, its author, Colin Davison, assesses her work in the context of her life, paying particular attention to the way that her extraordinary childhood influenced her writing. He also examines new evidence about where her ideas came…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Biographies, Influences
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Asl, Moussa Pourya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study attempts to indicate how the manifest content of a text is in essence the projection of the obsessional thoughts of the neurotic author. The research approach adopted in this study is what is referred to as psychobiography or the Freudian psychoanalytic criticism. Freud's ideas have been employed due to the increasing shift to him in the…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Mothers, Novels
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Baker, John R. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
This paper, through the use of Joycean narrative inquiry, offers a qualitative narrative analysis of two types of language input the South Korean community was exposed to when the doors opened to a large number of western teachers in 1993 (i.e., General American and Received Pronunciation). Specifically, this paper provides examples of lexical…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input, Pronunciation
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Junmei, Jiang – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
Oscar Wilde is one of the most hilarious playwrights in the history of English literature. And 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is his masterpiece. With Wilde's humorous and witty language as the starting point and aided by the concordancing software WORDSMITH TOOLS, a detailed analysis was carried out on this comedy from lexical level and…
Descriptors: Drama, Computational Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching Methods
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Wood, Audrey B. – English in Education, 2017
This article arises from an action research investigation that sought to understand the ways in which different approaches to teaching pre-twentieth century literature in Year 9 English lessons might influence students' experiences of texts. It examines the proposition that some students need to have a secure understanding of the text before they…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English Instruction, English Literature, Grade 9
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