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Annamalai, Nagaletchimee – Teaching English with Technology, 2016
The following is a qualitative case study investigating the writing approaches that are evident when a group of ESL students were to complete their narrative writing task in the "Facebook" environment. Six students and a teacher interacted in the "Facebook" environment to revise and improve the quality of their essays. Data in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Writing (Composition), Social Media
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Huang, Yi-Wen – SAGE Open, 2016
This article aims to examine the factors which must be taken into consideration before attempting to utilize Kasper and Petrello's nonjudgmental approach to English composition classes at a small 2-year college in the American Southwest. The majority of the students there are Navajo. Navajo oral tradition and syntax are two important factors to…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), American Indian Students, College English, Writing (Composition)
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Alzahrani, Hamdan Farhan – TESOL International Journal, 2016
This paper reports on a study exploring English language teachers' stated beliefs on coded unfocused corrective feedback in improving learners' writing accuracy at King Abdulaziz University (KAU). A questionnaire with both closed and open ended items was taken by ten participants. The results of the study indicate that many participants in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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He, Kekang – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016
This book proposes a new theory on children's thinking (cognitive) development. According to this theory, the stages of said development should be divided into four stages: first, the stage of animalistic thinking (birth--before possessing basic language ability); second, the stage of elementary thinking (beginning to possess basic language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Thinking Skills, Chinese
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Collet, Vicki S. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Research suggests that learning is situated, social, and constructed. Teachers, as well as their students, learn through collaborative participation in meaningful activity. This study investigates the impact of a Writing Project Institute on teachers' learning and instruction, considering characteristics of professional learning that influenced…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Instructional Improvement, Dialogs (Language), Institutes (Training Programs)
Alvarez, Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Young students' genre knowledge and learning have been of interest to literacy researchers for some time. How students learn and recognize genres, how they deploy them, how they learn the circumstances under which to deploy particular genres are key concerns for literacy educators and researchers. While the field of Composition Studies has long…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Writing (Composition)
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Daveena Tauber – College Composition and Communication, 2016
This article argues that composition should be involved in the study and teaching of graduate level writing. It goes on to argue that independent consulting offers a viable way for compositionists to share expertise with graduate students and programs, as well as to expand opportunities for participation in the profession. While the independent…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Writing (Composition), Consultants, Writing Instruction
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Jitpraneechai, Narisa – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
Focusing on noun phrase complexity in writing, this study adopted Biber, Gray and Poonpon's (2011) hypothesized developmental stages to investigate the academic writing of Thai and native English university students by comparing their argumentative English essays as concerns their usage of noun modification. Prenominal modifiers and postnominal…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Academic Language, Form Classes (Languages)
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Lundie, David C. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
In 2015, a duty came into effect requiring all public bodies, including schools, to engage with the UK Government's Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. This article presents two case studies from mid-size English cities, exploring the moral prototypes and institutional identities of professional mediators who made schools aware of their duties…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Prevention, Case Studies, Public Policy
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Huang, Shiying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The issue of voice has received considerable critical attention in second language writing (SLW) in the past decades. This study intends to enrich the research of voice in the Chinese context, which may mirror some issues in EFL environments. The short story writing process of an English-major undergraduate was particularly analyzed in this study,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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van Gelderen, Ben; Guthadjaka, Kathy – English in Australia, 2019
"Yuta Gonydjuy" ("The New Wax") is a children's story written by Kathy Guthadjaka, an Indigenous Elder from Gäwa, Elcho Island, northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Yuta Gonydjuy has been illustrated and published in both Warramiri and English via the bilingual Literature Production Centre at Galiwin'ku, in 1998.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Indigenous Populations, Languages, Bilingualism
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Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; Munsell, Sarah; Robinson, Logan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate an instructional approach that combined strategy instruction with principles of dialogic pedagogy to improve the story writing of students in grades K-2 (n = 219). Specifically, drama, dialogic interactions, and oral retellings assisted learners with ideation, while strategies guided their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Sauro, Shannon; Sundmark, Bjorn – ReCALL, 2019
This paper critically examines the integration of online fanfiction practices into an advanced university English language classroom. The fanfiction project, The Blogging Hobbit, was carried out as part of a course in the teacher education program at a Swedish university for students who were specializing in teaching English at the secondary…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cartoons
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Schneider, Jason – TESOL Journal, 2019
Interest in service-learning within TESOL has increased in recent years. Teacher-scholars have described multiple uses of such pedagogy in programs for students of English as a second language (ESL) and in courses of ESL teacher education. This article employs action research to focus on an introductory TESOL class at a U.S. university for which…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa; Tarsoly, Eszter – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2019
We propose ways of incorporating Google Translate into the teaching of Finnish and Hungarian in a higher education setting at different skill levels. The task types tested in our study were: analytical tasks (dictionary-like exercise, word-building, part-of-word identification), discovery method tasks (elicitation, problem solving), and awareness…
Descriptors: Translation, Computer Software, Finno Ugric Languages, Hungarian
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