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Al Khotaba, Eissa; Al Tarawneh, Khaled – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Lexical Discourse very often depend on lexis. Lexical Discourse analysis, however, has not yet been given enough consideration of the phenomenon of translation. This paper investigates lexical discourse analysis in translation from one language to another. This qualitative study comprises 15 text translated by M.A. students at the Department of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Translation, Second Languages, Qualitative Research
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Riddell, Jessica – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
This paper explores ways in which frequent feedback and clear assessment criteria can improve students' essay writing performance in a first-year English literature course. Students (n = 68) completed a series of three scaffolded exercises over the course of a semester, where they evaluated undergraduate essays using a predetermined assessment…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Essays, Expository Writing, Introductory Courses
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Ezeokoli, F. O.; Igubor, P. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2014
Performance in school examinations has remained one of the reliable indices of the quality of education in many countries. For over two decades in Nigeria, students' performance in most subjects on the school curriculum including Literature-in-English has been persistently declining. A number of explanations are offered for this unsatisfactory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Literature, Questionnaires, Teacher Surveys
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Jensen, Jane McEldowney; Worth, Benjamin – Journal of General Education, 2014
This ethnographic study examines the negotiation of the value of critical thinking by a group of community college students and their instructor in a required general education literature course. Using a sociological analysis, the authors explore how the students situated themselves as both learners and consumers in the classroom, a social field…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Community Colleges, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
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Smyth, Stella – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
In this "Idea Sharing" article, the author introduces Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" as a critique of King James I's (England) concept of an absolute monarchy, in his constitutional treatise, "Basilikon Doron (1599)," the "kingly gift" that advises the young prince on the ethics of government and how to…
Descriptors: English Literature, Drama, Criticism, Ethics
Tomlinson, Johanna Ruth Brinkley – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Two children, Dan and Una, sit in the woods and listen to a story of Britain's early history told to them by Sir Richard, a spirit conjured from the past for this instructive purpose. In this tale, Sir Richard gains treasure by defeating the "devils" that terrorize a village of African people. In many ways, this framed narrative sets up…
Descriptors: Fantasy, English Literature, Childrens Literature, Children
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Heble, Ayesha; Mehta, Sandhya Rao – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2013
The inclusion of cultural and contextual approaches in the study of literature has long been accepted as imperative in the literature classroom, fostering, as it does, the sensitization of students to diverse worldviews. This article aims to explore the way in which literature could affect students' preconceived notions of communities and people…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
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Ansarin, Ali Akbar; Manesh, Solmaz Saeeidi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2015
Representation of languages in a bilingual mind in general and the way bilinguals restore words from their mental lexicon, and the way they retrieve words have been explored by many researchers resulting in varied findings. The more information regarding bilingual memory is obtained, the better image would be constructed about this knowledge…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Semantics, Priming, Bilingualism
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Olanezhad, Mahdie – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study is designed to examine writing anxiety in three groups of EFL students who use English writing in their academic programs. The main purpose of this study is to determine the level and sources of anxiety that students experience while writing in English as a foreign language. To this end, 150 university students from Iranian EFL students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language)
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Muhammad, Gholnecsar E. – Journal of Education, 2015
Coupling Royster's (2000) conceptual framework of "zamani" with Rosenblatt's (1978) reader response theory, the researcher explores the ways African American women's writings supported, nurtured, and "mentored" the writings of adolescent girls. Findings show that the mentor texts helped in generating ideas for writing, thinking…
Descriptors: Mentors, Writing Improvement, African American Literature, Women Faculty
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Yandell, John; Brady, Monica – English in Education, 2016
Drawing on observational evidence of two classes working on "Romeo and Juliet," one in England and the other in Palestine, this essay explores the nature of knowledge in relation to English as a school subject. It asserts the importance of paying attention to the resources that students, situated in culture and history, bring with them…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Drama, English Literature
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Blackburn, Nick – Visible Language, 2011
This essay presents a revised history of the punctuation mark ["], drawn from the earliest communities who made it their own. By situating the development of ["] in its historical context, from first uses of the diple [diple] by the Greek scholar Aristarchus, it explains how it was the general applications which persisted into the sixteenth…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Semantics, Punctuation, Scripts
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Isip, J. D. – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
Harvard served as a model for English Departments in the past and, with its 2008-2009 changes, it seems to take the mantle in providing yet another model. However, I propose a much more radical approach to creating an undergraduate "English" curriculum that does more than push the boundaries of traditional study of English literatures. I…
Descriptors: Models, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Undergraduate Study
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Carter, Don – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
Poetry, as a textual form for critical study and composition, continues to occupy a significant place in Australian senior secondary English syllabus documents and classrooms (cf. Carter, 2012). Indeed, within the senior secondary English syllabus in New South Wales (NSW), poetry remains one of the core mandatory types of texts for study by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum, English Curriculum, Poetry
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Pruitt, John – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2013
In 1986, Paul Friedman and Reva Jenkins-Friedman introduced "Fostering Academic Excellence through Honors Programs" by warning readers that "One might assume that the brightest college undergraduates feel well served during their years on campus and that procedures for educating them are common knowledge." The research on the importance of honors…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Students, Independent Study
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