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Reading Teacher, 2011
There are many different kinds of words in the English language. Instruction in grammar and syntax helps young writers sort out when to use a plural or singular noun, or when to use an apostrophe. Silly Stories, a variation of a popular party game, reinforces the importance of word choice and conventions in writing. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grammar, Syntax, Educational Games
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Reynolds-Keefer, Laura – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
In Andrade and Du (2005), the authors discuss the ways in which students perceive and use rubrics to support learning in the classroom. In an effort to further examine the impact of rubrics on student learning, this study explored how rubrics impacted students learning, as well as whether using rubrics influenced the likelihood that they would use…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students
Munger, Roger – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
A growing group of green writers are persuading people to change their thinking and their behaviors for the benefit of our planet and its inhabitants. Adding a green writing assignment, unit, or course to your curriculum, the author argues, is an excellent strategy for showing students how their writing can make a difference in their community.…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, College Students, Conservation (Environment)
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Bruce, Ian – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
Research that has examined university assignment writing has varied from large-scale, inventorial surveys across disciplines to more specific, finer-grained analyses of the assignment requirements of specific disciplines. However, while such research has involved surveys of the views and expectations of faculty or the analysis of assignment tasks,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Essays, Sociology, English
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Gump, Steven E. – College Teaching, 2010
Response papers are usually brief, recurring assignments, often posted to online course management systems or virtual learning environments, wherein students are free to comment on any aspects of the assigned readings for a class or sequence of class meetings. They are typically to be written prior to the class meetings where the readings in…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Online Courses, Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments
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Lehman, Marjorie – Journal of Jewish Education, 2010
This paper presents the author's response to Jon A. Levisohn's article entitled "A Menu of Orientations in the Teaching of Rabbinic Literature." Levisohn has made a significant contribution to the scholarship of teaching in his article proposing that the teaching of rabbinic literature is most successfully accomplished when teachers think about…
Descriptors: Jews, Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Religious Education
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Dibartolo, Patricia Marten; Molina, Kristine – Communication Teacher, 2010
Fear of public speaking is the most common social fear experienced by the general population and can have far-reaching academic effects, including lower course grades and even an increased likelihood to drop out of college. The typical curricular approach to remediating public speaking fears in college students is to provide training in basic…
Descriptors: College Students, Public Speaking, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring
Blaisdell, Bob – Teaching Tolerance, 2010
In this article, the author shares how a simple writing assignment sharpens students' minds and challenges their biases. He asks his students to go find a place on campus where they can comfortably sit down, a place where anybody associated with the school can go and without leaving this spot to write for 30 minutes, nonstop, about everything they…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Exercises, Bias, Higher Education
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Larson, Erik; Drexler, John A., Jr. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
This article describes a service-learning assignment for a project management course. It is designed to facilitate hands-on student learning of both the technical and the interpersonal aspects of project management, and it involves student engagement with real customers and real stakeholders in the creation of real events with real outcomes. As…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Management Development, Interpersonal Competence, Teamwork
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Wang, Yen-Hui – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
The study investigated the learner perceptions of a CALL component in a blended language learning context. 52 Taiwanese college students attended instructional classroom sessions and did weekly online assignments in the form of interactive web-based exercises over one semester. Their learning performance was measured by means of two computer-based…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Murphey, Tim – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Much research supports the everyday therapeutic and deeper social-neurophysiological influence of singing songs alone and in groups (Austin, 2008; Cozolino, 2013; Sacks, 2007). This study looks at what happens when Japanese students teach short English affirmation songlet-routines to others out of the classroom (clandestine folk music therapy). I…
Descriptors: Music Therapy, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching
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Colton, Jared Sterling; Surasinghe, Thilina Dilan – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014
Writing has an important role in science education and practice. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary collaboration between English rhetoric studies and biology, seemingly disparate disciplines, we describe a model for a scientific writing and communication course. The goals of the course were to prepare students for science-oriented careers, as well…
Descriptors: English, Biology, Scientific Methodology, Technical Writing
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Nussli, Natalie; Oh, Kevin; McCandless, Kevin – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2014
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to help pre-service teachers experience and evaluate the potential of Second Life, a three-dimensional immersive virtual environment, for potential integration into their future teaching. By completing collaborative assignments in Second Life, nineteen pre-service general education teachers explored an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Science Education, Electronic Learning
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Kamimura, Taeko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Effective use of outside source texts is one of the key components of successful academic writing. This study aims at clarifying Japanese university EFL students' citation behaviors in producing argumentative writing. Twenty-six Japanese university EFL students wrote an argumentative essay. Their essays were analyzed quantitatively by six…
Descriptors: Citations (References), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Agor, John T. – English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper presents the results of a one-year longitudinal study which sought to investigate the effect that strategy instruction may have on English language achievement. Two classes of junior high school students at Madina in Ghana were involved in an experiment. The experimental class was taught various language-learner strategies both…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Control Groups
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