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Ligia Pelosi – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: The Instagram site, teacherwhispers, was created as part of a qualitative research project that chronicled the stories and lived experience of preservice and graduate teachers. Since 2020, the purpose of the study was to identify themes connected to the participants' experiences of current trends in education. The intent was to situate…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Social Media, Visual Aids, Preservice Teachers
Ariel N. Henry – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Scholars and associations committed to powerful social studies education have long advocated for students to explore controversial issues so they grow into informed, ethical, and participating citizens. Yet, teachers avoid undertaking this work due to a lack of training, confidence, or experience in facilitating courageous conversations about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Studies, Teacher Educators
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Marefat, Fahimeh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
Genre analysis (GA) studies aim at creating a relationship between the text features and their underlying objectives, systematically built upon a series of moves. Highly motivated by the need to improve graduate students' skills in writing research articles (RAs) and adopting Swales' (1990) Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion (IMRD) framework;…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Writing Evaluation, Writing Skills, Writing Improvement
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Boatwright, Brandon; Mazer, Joseph P. – Communication Teacher, 2017
Course: This assignment is a unit activity designed for use in a skills-focused undergraduate public relations, organizational communication, or crisis communication course. Objective: The goal of this activity is to increase students' understanding of and ability to apply discourse of renewal in a crisis scenario. Students will work…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Public Relations, Organizational Communication, Class Activities
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Heidi Regina Bacon; Lavern Georgia Byfield – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the seepage of current national discourses into the fabric of university classrooms. The authors describe their experiences navigating politics and accompanying discourses in their undergraduate and graduate courses at a rural Midwestern university in the USA. Their narrative provides a socio-historical context…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Discourse Communities, Universities, Classroom Environment
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Park, Yangjoo – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
This study is about graduate students' discourse practices in classroom text-based synchronous computer mediated discussions (SCMD). Cultural historical activity theory (in short, Activity Theory) is the primary theoretical lens through which the data are analyzed. Engeström's (1987) Activity System model among the various theoretical positions or…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Educational Practices
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Goodman, Sheryl Baratz; Bailey Murphy, Krista; Lindquist D'Andrea, Mia – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
In an effort to improve our understanding of intellectual discussion in the undergraduate seminar and how it may be enhanced, three interdisciplinary discussion-based classes taken by primarily first-year students at a liberal arts college were studied ethnographically. Specifically, this article explores the struggles experienced by the students…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Undergraduate Students, Ethnography, First Year Seminars
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Cox, Anicca – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Via interview data focused on instructor practices and values, this study sought to describe some of what performing and visual arts instructors do at the university level to effectively teach disciplinary values through writing. The study's research goals explored how relationships to writing process in visual and performing arts support…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Theater Arts, Visual Arts, College Students
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Lewis, Elizabeth; Dema, Oxana; Harshbarger, Dena – School Science and Mathematics, 2014
Despite historical national efforts to improve elementary science education, science instruction continues to be marginalized, varying by state. This study was designed to address the ongoing challenge of educating elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) to teach science. Elementary PSTs are one of the science education community's major links…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Cardenas, Diana L. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2012
Community-based projects immerse technical writing students in intercultural communication, addressing local needs and shaping documents in human terms. Students at a South Texas university work to establish communication with clients in a city-county health department to create effective documents and disseminate family health legislation. To…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Problem Solving
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Chieu, Vu Minh; Kosko, Karl W.; Herbst, Patricio G. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
It has been common to use video records of instruction in teacher professional development, but participants have rarely been encouraged to evaluate teachers and students' actions in those records, allegedly because evaluation deters from the development of a professional discourse. In this study, we inspected teachers' online discussions of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Protocol Analysis, Protocol Materials, Discourse Analysis
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Daddow, Angela; Moraitis, Peter; Carr, Amanda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Education policy in Australia has accelerated its aim to increase participation of under-represented groups in tertiary education including students who are culturally and linguistically diverse and have low socio-economic status. These students generally have not had prior access to privileged academic discourse, which can further disadvantage…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Socioeconomic Status
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Hardy, Jack A.; Römer, Ute; Roberson, Audrey – Across the Disciplines, 2015
In attempts to find appropriate and authentic materials for students who are developing their academic writing skills, instructors often turn to works written by professional academics. However, genres such as published research articles and textbooks in specific disciplines may not be the most suitable models for what first year composition…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Student Writing Models, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Huang, Shin-Ying – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This study investigated how the critical language awareness (CLA) framework can be implemented with an emphasis on writing and how English-language learners respond to CLA. The findings suggest that the students directed their attention away from the sole emphasis on reading for learning vocabulary and grammar to other dimensions of texts and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Discourse Communities
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Isaias, Pedro; Issa, Tomayess – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
This paper aims to examine the value of communication skills learning process through various assessments in Information Systems (IS) postgraduate units in Australia and Portugal. Currently, communication skills are indispensable to students in expanding their social networks and their knowledge at university and in the future workplace, since…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Information Systems, Higher Education, Action Research
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