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Sowell, Jimalee – English Teaching Forum, 2019
The use of writing models with nonnative English speakers has received a certain amount of criticism--especially from teachers whose students copy models in their entirety or follow them too closely. The misuse of models has brought some teachers to the point where they believe that the best kind of pedagogy is to abandon writing models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Discourse Modes
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Stephens, Gregory – CEA Forum, 2016
This essay develops a theory of "digital liminality" as a way to analyze the role of technology in the classroom and in students' lives. It is also a report on the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom as a site of intercultural exchange between instructors and Muslim students. The role of digital media in higher education was a…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Nelson, Virginia – Science and Children, 2010
Using science notebooks effectively in the classroom can encourage students who are learning English to keep up and keep interested. English language proficiency might head the list of content areas that schools can teach properly and effectively through science. Amaral, Garrison, and Klentschy (2002) reported that a successful inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Borich, Jeanette – Learning Languages, 2008
When the author was teaching in an elementary foreign language exposure (FLEX) program several years ago, she completed a research project that documented student learning gained from student dialogue journals. The action research initiative taught her the value of being reflective about her teaching practices. Her thesis research requirements…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Educational Strategies, Action Research, Second Language Instruction
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Dooly, Melinda – Language Awareness, 2007
This paper describes a collaborative Internet-based project involving foreign language students and teacher trainees in three different countries. The project involved both online collaboration with international partners and face-to-face classroom activities and was designed not only to facilitate purposeful, authentic language use, but also to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Learning Motivation, Class Activities
Miller, Jenny – TESL Canada Journal, 2007
Linguistic minority students in schools must acquire and operate in a second language while negotiating mainstream texts and content areas, along with negotiating an emerging new sense of social identity. This article presents journal data from an Australian ethnographic study that explored the relationship between second-language use, textual…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Ethnography, Social Environment, Self Concept
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Pavis, Jose – Babel, 1989
Describes two experiments carried out with a class of foreign language learners in the Department of French studies at the University of Sydney. The first experiment involved keeping a learner's diary, and the second experiment focused on learner's self-assessment of their writing performances. (CB)
Descriptors: College Students, French, Higher Education, Second Language Learning
Topaz, Beverley – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1997
Use of student learning logs is recommended as a means for both students and teacher to assess second-language learning. The approach encourages learners to analyze their learning difficulties and plan for overcoming them. Incorporated into portfolios, logs can be used to analyze progress. Sample log sheet and chart used as a framework for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Learning Strategies, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Redmann, Jennifer – Foreign Language Annals, 2005
This article introduces an innovative approach to teaching texts at every level of the foreign language curriculum through the use of an interactive reading journal. The article describes how the journal can address the interpretive communication standard at the secondary level, as well as the challenges of integrating lower-level "skills" courses…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Materials, Second Language Learning
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Gibbons, Pauline – Language and Education, 1998
Describes role of student-teacher interactions in development of English, focusing on more formal academic registers of school, among 9- and 10-year-old English-as-a-Second-Language students in an inner-city mainstream primary classroom in Sydney, Australia. Interactions between teachers and learners appeared to play a significant part in…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Granville, Stella – Language and Education, 2003
Describes an action research project that took place in the Johannesburg College of Education in the period immediately before and after South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. Student teachers from diverse social and cultural backgrounds were introduced to critical language awareness theory and encouraged to read texts critically and…
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Discourse Analysis
Brown, Cheryl; And Others – 1996
This report defines and describes audiotaped dialogue journals produced by fourth year, Chilean university students in their English class. The taped journals were used as a way for students to obtain additional practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in an environment where school was the only place they practiced their English. The…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Cognitive Style, College Students, Dialog Journals