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Appleman, Deborah – Teachers College Press, 2015
Because of the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, literature teachers all over the country are re-evaluating their curriculum and looking for thoughtful ways to incorporate nonfiction into their courses. They are also rethinking their pedagogy as they consider ways to approach texts that are…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Adolescents, English Instruction, Nonfiction
Ayar, Zulal; Kiziltan, Nalan – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
The impetus behind the design of this current research is to check the influence of cartoons on vocabulary learning strategies of students who have been exposed to three classics from English literature, "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, and "Romeo & Juliet" by…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Çakmak, Ceren Tasatan; Merç, Ali – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Vocabulary has been accepted as an important aspect of language learning in many studies. In the light of these studies in literature, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the general and academic lexical competence and performance of preparatory class students at School of Foreign Languages, Kütahya Dumlupinar University. Within this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Konieczny, Piotr; Eckert, Kenneth – English in Education, 2022
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Liberal Arts, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing
Hedman, Christina; Mannish, Scarlett – English in Education, 2022
This study emerged from the abrupt shift to online distance teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic and reports of "Mother Tongue Instruction" (MTI) in Sweden, where online distance teaching was initially introduced in MTI only. In Sweden, MTI is offered to students whose parents/caregivers speak languages other than Swedish on a daily…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Native Language Instruction, Swedish, Second Language Learning
Perkins, Tanya – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2019
In the writing classroom, collaborative learning often takes the form of coauthoring, peer workshops, or critique sessions. While these are useful, what other active-learning approaches might be effective, particularly in light of the range of media with which students are increasingly familiar? World building--creation of an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Criticism, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning
Teklesellassie, Yinager – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore the views of postgraduate students and their thesis supervisors on the practice of thesis supervision in the Department of English Language and Literature found at an Ethiopian university. The participants of the study were twenty-seven master's students studying the teaching of English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lim, Jia Wei; Othman, Juliana; Lo, Yueh Yea – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
The importance of critical thinking is championed in education, but it is also acknowledged that developing critical thinking is challenging particularly in a context like Malaysia where being critical often comes with negative connotations. This article details an attempt to develop reflective critical thinking in the discipline-specific study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Barnard, Ian – CEA Forum, 2016
In literature, composition, and other areas of English Studies, relateability can be an important tool to inscribe marginalized subjects as academic citizens. However, its larger arc reproduces ethnocentric and individualistic ideologies at the national and personal levels that foreclose the true understanding of and engagement with Otherness that…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Writing (Composition), Reader Text Relationship
Wyatt, Mark; Constantino, Dorothy; Cox, Corinne; Gilkes, Kristy; Thompson, Serena; Tiller, Rachael – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
Though there is little in the literature on the teaching of the history of English, criticism of textbooks which over-simplify "the" story as the rise of the standard variety has been more vocal of late. Meanwhile, some academics have argued for focusing teaching on the analysis of texts. This article reports on a unit/module taught at a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, English Literature
Larson, Lotta C.; Rumsey, Chepina – Reading Teacher, 2018
This Teaching Tip describes the use of children's literature to help second-grade students meet Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and for Mathematics. During a shared reading experience, students used manipulatives to represent plot and characters while demonstrating mathematical reasoning. The article offers instructional…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Guides, Common Core State Standards
Reading from Nowhere: Assessed Literary Response, Practical Criticism and Situated Cultural Literacy
Gordon, John – English in Education, 2018
School examinations of student responses to literature often present poetry blind or "unseen", inviting decontextualised close reading consistent with the orientation-to-text associated with Practical Criticism (originating in the UK) and New Criticism (originating in the USA). The approach survives in the UK after curricular reforms and…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Prior Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Weda, Sukardi – TESOL International Journal, 2018
This study aims at exploring the knowledge sharing practices in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom at university level in Indonesia. To explore knowledge sharing practices in the EFL classroom, the author conducted research on this topic at undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the State University of Makassar in Indonesia in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students
Razavipour, Kioumars; Moosavinia, Sayyed Rahim; Atayi, Somayyeh – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
High stake tests are known to drive curricula and affect teachers and learners in numerous ways; what has come to be known as test washback. Thus far, almost all washback studies have focused on national or international language proficiency tests. There are little, if any, researches addressing the washback of high stake tests of English…
Descriptors: English Literature, Graduate Students, Test Preparation, Testing Problems
Hamdan, Jihad M.; Al-Hawamdeh, Rose Fowler – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This empirical study examines the extent to which 'face', i.e. (audio visual dialogues), affects the listening comprehension of advanced Jordanian EFL learners in a TOFEL-like test, as opposed to its absence (i.e. a purely audio test) which is the current norm in many English language proficiency tests, including but not limited to TOFEL iBT,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students