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Johansson, Maritha – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study explores literature reading and reception of narrative texts among Swedish middle school students. Through a written assignment and a think-aloud protocol, students' comprehension and interpretation of narrative texts are investigated. The study shows that Swedish middle school students tend to focus mainly on the plot. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Writing Assignments
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Nurdauletova, Bibaisha; Aimukhambet, Zhanat; Saparbaikyzy, Sholpan; Kamarova, Nagbdu; Tolegenuly, Bekbolat – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
This study examines the effects of providing students with the literature-related foundations of knowledge revealed in the works of the famous Zhyrau who lived in the in the city of Aktau, Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, through online and traditional teaching. For this purpose, pretest-posttest model with study control group was applied. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Conventional Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Morrison, Kevin A. – English in Education, 2022
Can verse mediate between the educational institution and the wider community of which it is a part? Utilising a case study of a specific taught module, this essay considers whether the performance of poetry as an experiential learning activity has a role to play in the emerging concept of the university as an anchor institution, a term that…
Descriptors: Poetry, Oral Interpretation, Urban Universities, Experiential Learning
Che Noh, Mohd Aderi; Kasan, Hasnan; Yusak, Yusni Mohamad; Mahdi Yusuf, Sri Andayani – Online Submission, 2019
This study is related to the perception of Islamic Education teachers on their teaching practices in the Qur'an recitation skills due to the national primary schools under the administration of Education Ministry. A total of 120 Islamic Education teachers were involved as respondents in this study. They were randomly selected from ten districts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Islam, Teacher Attitudes
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Bottema-Beutel, Kristen; White, Rachael – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
In this discourse analytic study, we examine interactions between adolescents with autism spectrum condition (ASC) and their typically developing (TD) peers during the construction of fictional narratives within a group intervention context. We found participants with ASC contributed fewer narrative-related turns at talk than TD participants. The…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Narratives, Interpersonal Communication
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Buerkle, C. Wesley; Gearhart, Christopher C. – Communication Teacher, 2017
This experimental study examines an online module designed to increase student competence in oral citation behavior using a mastery training strategy. Students in the experimental condition provided complete citations at a higher rate and provided more citation information for traditional and web-based sources compared with a control group without…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Online Courses, Mastery Learning, Training Methods
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Baker, J. Scott – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2017
In the fall of 2015, the author conducted a national survey of over 1,000 former high school speech and debate competitors. As he told a colleague, he was drowning in data. It was a good problem to have, but he was not sure how to thoroughly examine the heart of data; how would he make meaning of their experiences? Then, he realized, the answer…
Descriptors: High School Students, Alumni, Public Speaking, Debate
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Herakova, Liliana – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: Public Speaking, Storytelling, Performance Ethnography, Oral Interpretation, Language and Communication. Objectives: The aims of this class exercise are: (1) To engage in a collaborative creative process of developing a story/topic from a simple idea to deepening the relationship with the audience through vivid and evocative language; (2)…
Descriptors: Fairy Tales, Language Usage, Class Activities, Teaching Methods
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Keaton, Megan – CEA Forum, 2015
Scholars and teachers often focus only on alphabetic texts in the classroom (Palmeri; Alexander and Rhodes; Jewitt; Selfe; Shipka); however, we do our students a disservice if we do not prepare them to compose with and understand the rhetorical consequences of using a variety of modes. In this article, I argue that we need to teach our students to…
Descriptors: Affordances, Poetry, Visual Arts, Singing
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Harper, Rebecca G. – SRATE Journal, 2014
This article addresses the triadic nature regarding meaning construction of texts. Grounded in Rosenblatt's (1995; 1998; 2004) Transactional Theory, research conducted in an undergraduate Language Arts curriculum course revealed that when presented with unfamiliar texts, students used prior experiences, social interactions, and literary strategies…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Language Arts, Reader Text Relationship, Concept Formation
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Anae, Nicole – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This paper presents a theorised classroom-based narrative discussing the author's interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of English dramatic literatures--in particular, Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth"--to i-Taukei, Indo-Fijian and Pacific Islander tertiary students at a South Pacific university.…
Descriptors: Literature, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Gwee, Susan; Toh-Heng, Hwee Leng – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2015
Video recording is increasingly used in higher education settings to help students develop their oral presentation skills. However, little is known about the effect of video review for bringing about better high school student outcomes in oral presentation in formal (classroom) and informal (out-of-classroom) settings. Using a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Oral Interpretation, Quasiexperimental Design
Phelan, Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2010
If Sally knows Sid to be a hard worker, she might make the point by asserting, "Sid is a hard worker." Or she might say, "Sid is a Sherman tank." We all recognize the first as an instance of literal language and the second as an instance of figurative language, specifically, a metaphor. This distinction is common even to people remote from us in…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Figurative Language, Audiences, Poetry
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Scott, W. Clayton – Teaching Artist Journal, 2010
In this article, the author, a poet and teaching artist, shares how he successfully brought slam poetry to College Hill Middle School in Texarkana, Arkansas. In 2001 he discovered slam poetry--a poetry-reading format in which poets compete in dramatic readings of their works--and went to Slam Nationals in Seattle on the Arkansas slam team. He…
Descriptors: Poetry, Creative Writing, Middle Schools, Creative Activities
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Whalen, D. Joel, Ed. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
This article, the first of a two-part series, presents teaching 10 innovations from the 2015 Association for Business Communication's 80th annual conference. The creative new assignments offered here include building listening skills by journaling, oral interpretation, positive message framing, storytelling, delivering bad news, persuasive…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Business Communication, Instructional Innovation, Assignments
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