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Direct linkHayo Reinders, Ed.; Coombe, Christine, Ed.; Littlejohn, Andrew, Ed.; Tafazoli, Dara, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2019
This edited collection presents a study of innovation in teaching, learning, assessment and teacher development practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The thirteen research-based chapters in this collection examine recent innovations in English language teaching, drawing on classroom, administrative and learning experiences from…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Tierney, William G. – SUNY Press, 2020
Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments, foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful professor all tend to lament one or another problem plaguing America's colleges and universities. The more apocalyptic claims state that the United States is a "nation at risk," that our students' minds have…
Descriptors: College Role, Outcomes of Education, Proprietary Schools, Attendance
Duke, Charles R., Ed.; Jacobsen, Sally A., Ed. – 1983
Intended for the high school and college reader, this collection of essays from poets, teacher-poets, and classroom teachers presents the available resources for making poetry in the classroom a varied, pleasurable, and intellectual experience. The collection is divided into three sections. In the first section, some perspectives on what poetry is…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Rosenberg, Vivian M. – 1989
Intended to improve critical thinking skills (and thereby the reading and writing skills that depend on critical thinking) through awareness of thinking patterns and activities, this textbook has three parts. Part 1, "Foundations: Thinking about Thinking," examines how our minds work as we try to make sense of the world around us and of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Metacognition, Reading Skills
Fry, Edward Bernard; And Others – 1993
Based on the premise that reading teachers have a wealth of creative ideas about what to teach and how to teach it effectively, this book contains the most used and useful lists for classroom teachers gathered together in a desktop reference format. First published in 1984, this third edition of the book includes expanded versions of, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Information Sources
Kerber, James E. – 1975
This book is intended to help teachers of reading examine the actions that they need to perform during each day's reading lesson. These actions, referred to as teaching tasks, are a series of specific subskills that every teacher should possess and use to better enable children to learn how to read. The reading tasks include: "Building Your Own…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading, Reading Development, Reading Improvement
Cortina, Joe; And Others – 1989
Aimed at entering college students whose skills are at a precollege level, this book focuses on reading comprehension and explores reading as a form of the thinking process. The primary focus of the book is on helping students grasp the main ideas and supporting details of material they are assigned to read in their college textbooks. Chapters…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Wolf, Lorraine E., Ed.; Schreiber, Hope E., Ed.; Wasserstein, Jeanette, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
Recent advances in neuroimaging and genetics technologies have enhanced our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders in adults. The authors in this volume not only discuss such advances as they apply to adults with learning disorders, but also address their translation into clinical practice. One cluster of chapters addresses developmental…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Nonverbal Learning
Download full textScott, Virginia M., Ed.; Tucker, Holly, Ed. – 2001
This monograph offers eight papers in four sections. Section 1, "Renewed Debates," includes "The Gordian Knot: Language, Literature, and Critical Thinking" (Jean Marie Schultz). Section 2, "Colleagues in Dialogue," includes "Developing Literacy and Literary Competence: Challenges for Foreign Language Departments" (Heidi Byrnes and Susanne Kord)…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Cohen, Karen M.; And Others – 1978
The three papers in this book treat the experimental literature on eye movements in reading and information processing to determine what factors might be manipulated to improve reading efficiency. The first paper discusses control models of eye activity in reading, research data concerning eye activity with reading material, and future directions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Eye Movements
Meredith, Patrick – 1972
The main objective of this book is to explain the thinking that is involved in working out a systematic scheme of the variables related to dyslexia. The contents of the book include "Origins of the Approach,""Some Principles of Instruction"; "Verbal Behavior"; "Our Ideas about Language"; "Left and Right"; "The Biology of the Book"; "Exploring…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Dyslexia, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1985
One of six books in each basic subject area, this book is intended to spark more detailed discussion and ongoing dialogue among fellow teachers who have front-line responsibility for ensuring that all students are prepared adequately for college. It is also intended for guidance counselors, principals, superintendents, and other officials who must…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, Content Area Writing, English Curriculum
Marashi, Mehdi – 1974
This volume contains achievement tests designed for American students studying Persian at the elementary level. They are constructed on the basis of materials related to course syllabi. Preceding the tests, the sources of the test data are reviewed and the main ones are listed. The allocation of points in each section of the test syllabus is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Smith, R. Kent; Johnson, Beth; Mohr, Carole – 1998
This instructor's edition of a vocabulary textbook for college students, who read at the fifth to eighth grade level, features 25 chapters and teaches 250 basic words. The first and third chapters in each unit contain word-part practices. The second and fourth chapters in each unit contain synonym-antonym practices. The book's last chapter in each…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Johns, Jerry L.; Lenski, Susan Davis – 1997
This book presents strategies for helping struggling readers, from those who simply need extra assistance to those needing more intensive help. The book is useful for classroom teachers and reading teachers as well as undergraduate and graduate students, and it offers a quick reference guide and full page resource materials ready for photocopying.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Family School Relationship
