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Rowe, Lindsey W. – Reading Teacher, 2022
Teachers in English-medium classrooms can support students' translingual composing by inviting students to write using all their language resources. However, students in these contexts often express hesitancy about their ability to spell in languages beyond English. This article describes support strategies teachers can use to scaffold students'…
Descriptors: Spelling, Writing (Composition), Language of Instruction, English
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Harris, Karen R.; McKeown, Debra – Theory Into Practice, 2022
The ability to write is fundamental for learning and achievement across Grades K-12, performance in the workplace, continuing education, college, personal development, and addressing social justice. The majority of our students, however, are not capable writers. We have a body of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and best practices that can make a…
Descriptors: Barriers, Evidence Based Practice, Writing Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
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Graham, Steve – Educational Psychologist, 2022
This article is an expanded version of my presentation to Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association for the Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education in 2019. It provides an overview of research conducted by colleagues and I that examined the following four topics: (a)…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam A. – Online Submission, 2020
This revised edition updates and expands on the first edition published in 2016. In this revised edition, theories of different types of learning strategies are expanded and more recent studies are added. A large amount of tabular information is also reconstructed in a more meaningful manner. The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter one…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Teaching Methods
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam A. – Online Submission, 2016
The idea of this book arose out of an awareness that students with language learning disabilities are completely ignored in the Egyptian school system and there are no special programs that cater to these students. They are placed in normal schools that are not prepared to deal with their unique difficulties. This book, therefore, is an attempt to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Learning Disabilities
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Mangram, Jeffrey A.; Haddix, Marcelle; Ochanji, Moses K.; Masingila, Joanna – Journal of Instructional Research, 2015
Massification in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa is an ongoing reality that poses particular challenges and opportunities for these nations (Mohamedbhai, 2008). Like Scott (1995), we use the term massification to refer to the rapid increase of students attending higher education institutions in the latter part of the 20th century and into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Lecture Method
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Bush, Jonathan, Ed.; Zuidema, Leah, Ed. – English Journal, 2012
In professional writing, usability testing investigates how well users can find, understand, and use a document (Lannon). Usability testing involves gathering feedback from users, analyzing how successfully they used the document, and drawing on the test results to change or refine the design. From the authors' experiences as writers and teachers,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Usability, Test Results, Audience Analysis
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Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Colwell, Ryan P. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2013
This article provides recommendations for teachers to better prepare 3rd through 12th grade students with learning disabilities for large-scale writing assessments. The variation across large-scale writing assessments and the multiple needs of struggling writers indicate the need for test preparation to be embedded within a comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Writing Evaluation, Test Wiseness
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Li, Guofang – Theory Into Practice, 2012
How do second-language learners become successful readers and writers? This article examines the importance of social networks to English language learners' reading and writing development. It describes different family, peer, and virtual social networks that ELLs can utilize to engage in online and offline reading and writing (especially related…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Popular Culture, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
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Guzel-Ozmen, Ruya – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2009
In this article, modified cognitive strategy instruction in writing (CSIW), a cognitive strategy instructional model is described. Modified CSIW was designed based on two effective instructional models: cognitive strategy instruction in writing (CSIW) and self-regulated strategy development (SRSD). Modified CSIW provides tailored instruction to…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Strategies, Learning Strategies, Writing Skills
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Bacci, Tina – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008
In this article, the author provides technology-based techniques for prewriting invention and drafting that offer students new ways to look at and think about writing topics and tasks. Rather than creating electronic versions of existing paper-and-pencil invention strategies, the author suggests strategies using commonly owned and used computer…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Writing Instruction, Computer Software
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Lopez-Gomez, Coral – Hispania, 1997
Discusses the usefulness to second language learning of an activity in which students assume a pen name and write letters under that name in the language studied in order to motivate their interest in the language and accelerate their mastery of it. (CK)
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Jacobs, George M.; Yong, Seah-Tay Hui – Online Submission, 2004
This article offers ideas as to how students can collaborate as they learn about and utilize a variety of text types (also known as rhetorical modes). The article begins with explanations of the teaching of text types and cooperative learning. The longest section of the article consists of examples of ways that students can use cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
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Saddler, Bruce; Moran, Susan; Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R. – Exceptionality, 2004
In this study, we examined whether early, supplemental strategy instruction in planning helped ameliorate writing difficulties. Second-grade students experiencing difficulty learning to write were taught a strategy for planning and writing stories. Learning to use the strategy had a positive effect on writing, as students' stories became more…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Personal Narratives, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Tichenor, Stuart – 2001
This paper asserts that all the praise currently being lavished upon computer technology in the writing classroom should be tempered with realistic criticism. In addition to making research easier for students, the Internet makes plagiarism very easy. The author stresses that this plagiarism problem is not limited to the composition classroom, and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Educational Technology, Higher Education
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