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Yagnik, Arpan – Communication Teacher, 2021
This article introduces an assignment that will help instructors effectively teach media grammar and convergence to their students. Hybrid letter writing (HBL) is an experiential learning assignment where students learn about media grammar and convergence by experiencing it. The current modus operandi of teaching convergence and media grammar is…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Letters (Correspondence)
Crawford, William J. – TESOL Press, 2020
Which components of grammar teaching--accuracy, meaningfulness, and appropriateness--are you the least comfortable including in your classroom activities? This Reflective Question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling "Teaching Grammar," which explores different…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Adams, Karen – English Teaching Forum, 2015
In this article Karen Adams demonstrates how to incorporate group grammar techniques into a classroom activity. In the activity, students practice using the target grammar to do something they naturally enjoy: learning about each other.
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Group Activities, Second Language Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
The "Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School" practice guide was developed by the What Works Clearinghouseâ„¢ (WWC) in conjunction with an expert panel to support teachers in providing language instruction. The practice guide provides teachers with guidelines and examples of ways to…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Literacy
Washington, Gene – 1991
If writing teachers want to use modality effectively, they first have to deal with three problems: identification of markers of modality in English; representation (the use of models for modality); and correlation (pedagogical usefulness, and writing strategies for students). Two models of modality address the problems which writing teachers…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Models, Writing Assignments
Noden, Harry R. – 1999
This book is based on the premise that a writer is much like an artist who paints images, only using grammatical structures as tools. In conjunction with this approach, each chapter is divided into concepts and strategies: concepts illustrate how professional writers have applied image grammar to develop their art, and strategies provide…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Philosophy, Grammar, Secondary Education
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Flanders, Marianne; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Contains six short descriptions of lesson plans that teachers have found effective in a range of areas: (1) first day confidence building; (2) innovative lessons in punctuation; (3) approaches to teaching the comparison/contrast papers; (4) writing about possible careers; (5) student presentations designed to make literature come alive; (6)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Planning, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
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Lang, Frederick K.; Moser, Janet – English in Texas, 1995
Describes a method of teaching basic writing to native and nonnative students that emphasizes a regression to the most basic elements of writing. Considers what writing content, rhetorical techniques, grammar exercises, and proofreading methods are most effective for the two groups. (TB)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, English (Second Language), Freshman Composition, Grammar
Duckart, Tracy D. – 1995
For many students, grammar represents a baffling set of capricious rules wielded by "sadistic" English teachers for the sole purpose of making their lives miserable. To combat this misconception and to dispel the mystery and empower students with the ability to use the conventions of standard written English, a series of student…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Freshman Composition
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Wilkes, Helen – Foreign Language Annals, 1983
A cultural awareness technique developed for eighth-grade French students involves having students put together title or section pages in their notebooks on specified topics such as French products, geography, and common symbolism. The pages are later used for class discussion and further study. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Assignments, Cultural Awareness
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Barton, Keith C. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1996
Presents a lesson plan that uses subordinating conjunctions and prepositions as "magic words." After a lesson or unit of study, students write content specific sentences using the "magic" conjunctions and prepositions. This activity serves as a unit review, helps with concept formation, and increases writing skills. (MJP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Grammar, Instructional Innovation
Schlemmer, Phil – 1987
Designed to encourage self-expression in motivated students--all those who enjoy the adventure and challenge of learning--as well as in gifted and talented children in the upper elementary and junior high school grades, the 16 student writing projects described in this book lend themselves to a variety of applications, such as basic skill…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Gifted, Grammar, Independent Study
Crookes, Graham, Ed.; Gass, Susan M., Ed. – 1993
Essays on second language teaching focuses on how the kinds of tasks performed by the learner relate to language output. "Choosing and Using Communication Tasks for Second Language Instruction" (Teresa Pica, Ruth Kanagy, Joseph Falodun) contains a taxonomy of communication task types, based on the concepts of goal and activity,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Papandreou, Andreas – 1991
Ideas and guidelines for the organization of effective homework assignments, based on the principle that homework should offer opportunities for learning outside the classroom, are offered. The examples given are for English second language instruction as practiced in public secondary schools in Cyprus, but the principles outlined could be applied…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Educational Policy