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Direct linkBelinda Mendelowitz – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: Imagination in critical literacy research is usually referred to as a taken for granted concept that is seldom theorised, leaving the assumptions unchecked that everyone has a shared understanding of imagination. This paper aims to challenge critical literacy researchers to rethink the relationship between criticality and imagination and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Imagination, Critical Theory, Data
Download full textLaidlaw, Linda; So-Har Wong, Suzanna – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This article explores and interrogates the common practice of asking students to write personal narratives within elementary English Language Arts classrooms, addressing some of the difficulties that may arise when students are required to share personal details. Using interview and focus-group data from a study of internationally adopted children…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Elementary School Students, Writing (Composition), English Instruction
Slocum, Audra – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
This paper discusses the social positioning work three Appalachian adolescents engaged in during two literacy events drawn from a year-long critical teacher-researcher ethnographic study in a twelfth-grade English class in a rural Appalachian high school. Data analysis indicates that in these literacy events, the focal students positioned…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Rural Areas, Ethnography, Grade 12
Lee, Hsiao-Chien – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
The theory of learning multimodality is receiving greater attention. Its application in language learning classes is also increasing in number. Since Chinese-speaking EFL learners are likely to be visual learners, as an instructor of Taiwanese EFL students, I have come to believe that arts integrated, multimodal projects help less confident and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Learning Modalities, Art Activities
Xerri, Daniel – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
This paper examines the place of poetry writing in the post-16 English curriculum in Malta. In presenting the results of a small-scale study adopting a mixed methods approach, it explores the views of teachers, students and an influential examiner. The paper proposes that while there seems to be an appreciation of what creative writing can…
Descriptors: Poetry, Foreign Countries, College Students, Writing Skills
Ferreira, Ana; Mendelowitz, Belinda – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This article explores how a linguistically diverse, subject English class can become a multilingual contact zone in which naturalised linguistic identities are made visible and interrogated. The research is situated in a highly diverse, educational context--Wits School of Education in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is framed by a society in…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Linguistics, Official Languages, Biographies
