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Using Multimodal Writing to Motivate Struggling Students to Write
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Darrington, Brett; Dousay, Tonia – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
One of the reasons that many secondary students fail English classes is because they are not motivated to write. This literature review was conducted to look into the use of multimodal works to increase the motivation for struggling students to write. Change theory was used to evaluate the benefits of multimodal works compared to more traditional…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Learning Modalities, Writing Skills, Secondary School Students
Effective Ways of Teaching Writing in EFL Classes.
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Im, Byung-Bin; Chang, Kyung-Suk – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Analyzes conventional ways of teaching writing in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classes. Current theories on teaching writing are reviewed and practical writing activities and tasks applicable to the EFL classroom are presented. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conventional Instruction, Dictation, Educational Theories
Sentence Combining and College Composition.
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Kerek, Andrew; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
College freshmen practicing rhetorically based sentence combining for a semester proved superior to conventionally trained students in both quality and syntactic maturity of writing. After 28 months, on a post test, intergroup differences were no longer statistically significant. (This study report includes a research review and experimental and…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Conventional Instruction, Course Descriptions
Teaching Underprepared Students at the Community College.
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Handleman, Chester – Educational Horizons, 1979
The author contends that limiting instructional innovation and upgrading academic standards will benefit both high-risk and traditional community college students. He presents results from instructor surveys and studies favoring the more traditional teaching, grading, and testing methods and includes suggestions for improving study skills and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Conventional Instruction, High Risk Students, Instructional Improvement