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Hongye Zeng – Reading Teacher, 2024
Writing in school has long been disconnected and inauthentic to multilingual learners due to its monolingual, language-focused, and standardized features. Although more and more researchers have called for and explored newer asset-based writing pedagogies, such as digital multimodal writing, to support diverse learners in response to emerging…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Multiple Literacies, Learning Modalities
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Carter, Katherine – English Teaching Forum, 2015
The descriptive paragraph and subsequent essay are usually among the first assignments students must complete in composition classes. Typically, students are told to describe their childhood home, a person of importance, a special object, or a summer vacation. Most students, especially learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), have…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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McDermott, Mark – Science Teacher, 2010
Writing-to-learn activities are designed to use writing as a process in which students generate and clarify understanding of scientific concepts for themselves, rather than simply communicating with a teacher for evaluation. Instead of having students parrot science facts back to the instructor, writing-to-learn activities focus on the production…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Scientific Concepts, Biology
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Staggers, Julie; Garcia, Susan; Nagelhout, Ed – Business Communication Quarterly, 2008
This article describes the ways the authors incorporated team-building activities into our online business writing courses by interrogating the ways that kinesthetic learning translates into the electronic realm. The authors review foundational theories of team building, including Cog's Ladder and Tuckman's Stages, and offer sample exercises they…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Team Training, Online Courses, Business Communication
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Selfe, Richard J.; Selfe, Cynthia L. – Theory Into Practice, 2008
For some teachers, the increasing attention to digital and multimodal composing in English and Language Arts classrooms has brought into sharp relief the profession's investment in print as the primary means of expression. Although new forms of communication that combine words, still and moving images, and animation have begun to dominate digital…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Instruction, Learning Modalities, Educational Technology
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Czuchry, Michael; Dansereau, Donald F. – Teaching of Psychology, 1996
Explores the usefulness of an alternative writing approach using a spatial-verbal technique called node-link mapping. In this process the student diagrams nodes, which contain key ideas and propositions, and links, which convey relations such as, leads to, part of, and example. Includes diagrams and examples. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Information Processing, Learning Modalities