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Craig, Todd – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
Prompted by a moment in the classroom in which the DJ becomes integral for the writing instructor, this article looks at how the hip-hop DJ and hip-hop DJ/Producer become the intrinsic examples for first-year college writing students to think about how they conduct revision in their writing. After a review of two seminal hip-hop books and other…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Popular Culture, College English, Teaching Methods
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Cope, Jonathan; Sanabria, Jesús E. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
The authors analyze twenty in-depth interviews with faculty members about how they perceive information literacy (IL) to examine two key factors: how disciplinary background influences conceptions of IL among faculty members in academic departments and how the instructors' perception of information literacy differs from that of professionals in…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews
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García Montes, Paula Andrea; Sagre Barboza, Ana María; Lacharme Olascoaga, Alba Isabel – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
This article presents a case study research with aims to find out which activities, methodological and textual aspects used in a reading strategies course were causing a group of students difficulties when analyzing critically written information. We conducted the study at Universidad de Córdoba (Colombia) with seventh semester students from the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Written Language, Language Tests
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Azar, Ali Sorayyaei; Hashim, Azirah – English Language Teaching, 2014
The classes, purposes and characteristics associated with the review article in the field of applied linguistics were analyzed. The data were collected from a randomly selected corpus of thirty two review articles from a discipline-related key journal in applied linguistics. The findings revealed that different sub-genres can be identified within…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Periodicals, Journal Articles
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Suzuki, Manami – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
The current study examined 24 Japanese university students' processes of negotiation in conditions of self revision and of peer revision about their English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Analyzing their negotiation episodes and text changes, I categorized within a common coding scheme the types of negotiation from (a) think-aloud protocols…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, College Students, Revision (Written Composition)
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Chien, Shih-Chieh – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
The present study aims to explore the role of Chinese EFL learners' rhetorical strategy use in relation to their achievement in English writing in Taiwan. It has been argued that traditional Chinese text structures (indirect style) continue to influence the contemporary English writing of Chinese students in expository writing text. The manner of…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Role Perception, Text Structure