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Download full textSimanjuntak, Debora Chaterin; Safitri, Nining – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2018
This study addresses to see the significant difference between those who were taught using Jigsaw 1 model and those who were taught using picture composition to enhance the students' ability in writing descriptive writing. This cooperative study involved two groups. Sample of this research were the students of X-A using Jigsaw 1 Model and X-B…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Descriptive Writing, Teaching Methods, High School Students
Direct linkThomas, Laura – English in Education, 2020
This paper reports on an intervention in a London school with boys with special educational needs and a lack of motivation to write descriptively. They displayed inconsistency in their written outcomes and a repetitive, limited range of vocabulary. While these issues were intertwined, the strategies described in this paper sought firstly to tackle…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Direct Instruction, Vocabulary, Special Needs Students
Maru, Mister Gidion; Nur, Sahril – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The emergence of the COVID-19 as the global pandemic with its social and physical distancing consequence has affected educational practices. This paper reports the experience of carrying out a study on applying video for writing of descriptive text in EFL [English as Foreign Language] Class. The purpose of this research was to examine whether the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Descriptive Writing, Writing Skills, Skill Development
Sinaga, Megawati – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The Objectives of this paper as an experimental research was to investigate the effect of Roundtable and Clustering teaching techniques and students' personal traits on students' achievement in descriptive writing. The students in grade ix of SMP Negeri 2 Pancurbatu 2016/2017 school academic year were chose as the population of this research. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Personality Traits, Writing Achievement
Williams, Heidi; Burns, Claudia; Daisey, Peggy – Grantee Submission, 2016
(Purpose) The purpose of this paper is to describe visual literacy and an adapted version of Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) and its value to enhance students' inferential thinking. (Methodology) An example of a middle school VTS, art-integrated lesson is described as well as reflections of a middle school language arts teacher about what she…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Learning Strategies, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students
Brooks, Robert – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2012
This article illustrates using carbon emissions data in an introductory statistics assignment. The carbon emissions data has desirable characteristics including: choice of measure; skewness; and outliers. These complexities allow research and public policy debate to be introduced. (Contains 4 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Statistics, Assignments, Problem Sets, Statistical Data
Graham, Steve, Ed.; MacArthur, Charles A., Ed.; Fitzgerald, Jill, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Highly practical and accessible, this indispensable book provides clear-cut strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors are leading authorities who demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education
