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Peterson, Art – 1996
This book presents 113 writing "workouts" (exercises) to help students, and especially teachers, think about the small steps writers take as they learn their craft. The workouts in Part I, Writers Speak Up, are intended to help novice writers develop confidence in the value of their experience. Part II, Writers Pay Attention, presents challenges…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Revision (Written Composition)
Salies, Tania Gastao – 1995
Role-playing is proposed as an ideal technique to teach language because it prepares learners for the unpredictable nature of real-life communication, teaches appropriate language use, and boosts self-confidence. Theories that have paved the way for the current communicative approach to language teaching are reviewed, role-playing is defined, and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
Malkoc, Anna Maria, Comp.; Montalvan, Ruth G., Comp. – 1995
The 26 teaching strategies in this collection originally appeared in IDEAS PLUS, a special publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. The teaching strategies are entitled: (1) "A Dream House" (Thomas M. Cobb); (2) "A Journal-Writing Pot of Gold" (Irina Markova); (3) "Adopt-a-Word" (Annette Matherne); (4) "Contrasting Moods" (Don…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction