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Etsuo Taguchi; Greta Gorsuch; Kristin Lems; Hiroto Toda; Toshiko Kawaguchi; Kirsten M. Snipp – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This paper examines learners' fluency development in L2 silent reading rate and comprehension. In both L1 and L2 readings, a positive relationship between readers' silent reading rate and comprehension has not been as firmly established as theories might propose. Based on Wallot et al. (2014), the paper indicates the need to look at readers'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
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Burland, Karen; Pitts, Stephanie – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2007
This article reports a project designed to foster first-year music students' academic study skills and to investigate their expectations and experiences of starting at university. Data gathered through questionnaires, diaries and in-class tasks reveal the change in learning strategies and musical identity the students experience in their first…
Descriptors: Music Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies
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Anderson, Wayne P. – Teaching of Psychology, 1982
Describes the use of personal journals in a graduate course on human sexuality. Students were asked to keep journals of observations of sex in the environment--e.g., magazines, TV, people's interactions--and their reactions to it. (AM)
Descriptors: Diaries, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Psychology
Kline, Suzy – Instructor, 1987
A teacher describes how a classroom diary, part of a daily classroom routine, was created through class members sharing their experiences with each other. The diary also served as a teaching tool in such areas as language arts and handwriting. (CB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Diaries, Grade 2, Language Arts
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Fulwiler, Toby – English Journal, 1980
Shows how student journals can be used in a variety of subject areas to focus both student and teacher on the learning process inherent in writing. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Diaries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Hunt, Patrick C. – Communication Education, 1979
Describes a four-part journal format for use by students in an interpersonal communication course. The four parts are (1) student assessment of skills; (2) goals; (3) strategies for implementation of goals; and (4) review. (JMF)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Diaries, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
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Bowman, Richard F., Jr. – Contemporary Education, 1983
The personal student journal is a little-used technique that holds special promise for instructors working in diverse educational settings. Journals can be used as an instructional tool for students, as a means for nurturing self-directed learning, and as a bridge to personal growth. (PP)
Descriptors: Diaries, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Learning Experience
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Raths, James – Educational Leadership, 1987
Outlines debriefing strategies to help students organize, compare, classify, evaluate, summarize, or analyze an experience and determine its meaning. Discusses several possible activities leading to increased understanding, including writing logs, diaries, or summaries, naming themes, imagining alternatives, evaluating, role-playing, drawing,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Cooperative Learning, Diaries, Evaluation
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Kim, Jungkang – Adult Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Adult Literacy Educational Planning, 2005
This article presents my views and reflections on working with adult ESL learners at a community-based adult literacy program in the Southwest. In this article, I share my experience working with adult learners learning English as a second language and critically address and discuss issues significant to the learners in their language and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Journal Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Strackbein, Deanna; Tillman, Montague – Journal of Reading, 1987
Provides teachers with instructions on effectively using student journals in classes at all levels. Gives examples of different types of personal writing students can engage in, suggests ways to respond to them, and lists benefits of and reservations about using journals in writing classes. (SKC)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Diaries, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Colt, Lisa; Connelly, Fanny – Independent School, 1981
Advocates the use of daily journal entries as a vehicle for student expression to chart the process and progress of the course, "Facing History and Ourselves: The Holocaust and Human Behavior." Cites examples of student journal entries and suggests procedures for keeping journals. (JD)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Course Content, Diaries, History Instruction
Pezzulich, Evelyn – 1987
Interdepartmental rivalries between literature instruction and composition instruction have contributed to viewing reading and writing as disconnected activities. One solution to this divisiveness is a course in "the journal as a literary tradition," which combines reading and writing in equal portions. Students first learn about the…
Descriptors: Diaries, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
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Hull, Suzanne – Journal of Geography, 1994
Asserts that travelers' diaries are excellent primary sources that can be used to teach geography. Maintains that state historical societies and local archives are good sources for these documents. Includes lengthy excerpts from two diaries and a student worksheet. (CFR)
Descriptors: Archives, Cartography, Diaries, Geographic Concepts
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Schamel, Wynell; And Others – Social Education, 1995
Discusses the significance and circumstances surrounding the Yalta Conference near the end of World War II. Presents diary excerpts written by Anna Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's daughter. Includes four recommended teaching activities and an address list of the presidential libraries. (CFR)
Descriptors: Diaries, Diplomatic History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Mahood, Wayne – Social Education, 1995
Maintains that teaching about the Civil War can be enhanced by using a wide variety of printed and audiovisual resources. Provides an annotated list of interpretive accounts, secondary sources, and participant accounts of the war. Concludes that student interest can be generated by using such personalized accounts of the period. (CFR)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Civil War (United States), Diaries
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