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Download full textSiti Rehana Isnin – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Japanese is an international language subject offered as an additional language in secondary schools in Malaysia. Japanese language subject begins from Form 1 to Form 5 at the age of 13 to 17. However, composition writing often becomes a problem among students in Japanese language classes due to insufficient mastery of vocabulary and sentence…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Mapping, Japanese, Second Language Learning
Martin, Kit; Lam, Eva – Grantee Submission, 2020
Transnational youth use digital media to affiliate with diverse cultural and linguistic practices, as demonstrated through the use of multiple languages and hybrid linguistic codes, media genres and multimodal expressions in the youths' online communication and writing (Black, 2009; Domingo, 2014; Kim, 2016). This study introduces a learning…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Information Technology, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
Direct linkOlan, Elsie Lindy; McDermott, Maureen; Richmond, Kia Jane – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The researchers of this hermeneutic phenomenological study applied Colaizzi's (1978) method to analyze and interpret English Language Arts (ELA) teacher candidates' (TC) learning experiences with literacy quadrants and narratives while attending secondary writing instruction methods courses in diverse institutional settings. Qualitative strategies…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Preservice Teachers, Secondary Education, Methods Courses
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2014
The presentation will show the types of online writing tasks that can be integrated in online courses, online discussion forums, blogs, wikis…etc as a supplement to in-class writing instruction. The types of online writing tasks include the following: Tasks that focus on specific writing skills; tasks that provide free writing activities; tasks…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Online Courses, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
McGee, Karen A. – 1987
Various techniques for encouraging writing among kindergarten children are described in this paper. Techniques include: (1) dictating stories; (2) establishing the format of a text by using repetitive patterns, the rhythm of the language, cumulative patterns, the familiarity of a story or story line, and familiar sequences; (3) using "I-Searches"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Kindergarten, Learning Activities, Primary Education
Bradley, K. Sue; Bradley, Jack – 1999
This document outlines a presentation on the use of music activities to develop reading and composition skills in young children. The outline describes how music contributes to language arts development and presents several classroom activities. Activities to develop reading through music involve creating new verses to songs, cumulative story…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities, Music Activities
Lawrence, Robert A. – 1981
A classroom activity to facilitate the process of forming images in the mind (seeing) while writing is described in detail. The activity, called the Where Exercise, consists of the instructor naming a series of locations and the students writing down three objects which they "see" in each of those locations. It is emphasized that the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Imagination, Learning Activities, Postsecondary Education
Spinks, C. W. – 1982
Dreams can be used to draw students into an authentic expression of their creativity and to give them some validation for what they are as persons. A "dream seminar" in a writing course could have students read and discuss Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"; log, report, and discuss their dreams during the course; and explore other…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Emotional Experience, Expressive Language, Higher Education
Constantinides, Janet C. – 1983
A course sequence for teaching the forms and formats of scientific and technical writing to English as a second language (ESL) learners is described. The first assignment, a letter of application, serves as a diagnostic indication of the student's ability. The second assignment, a narrative, is designed to define the importance of audience and…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Vazulik, Johannes W. – 1983
The methods and materials for teaching the vocabulary and writing components of an intensive summer English as a second language (ESL) program for foreign university students are described. Program goals are to improve English language proficiency and orient students to the American academic system and American culture. The approach to building…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Intensive Language Courses, Learning Activities
Stewig, John Warren – 1980
This speech indicates how teachers can use visual materials in classrooms to promote writing by children in primary school. Five classroom tested motivating experiences discussed are: (1) adding words to wordless picture books, (2) writing about artist's paintings, (3) writing story lines from films, (4) comparing variant editions of the same…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities, Motivation Techniques
Wilson, Dawn – 1980
A journal-based college composition program has been developed that links journal writing to the development of competence in more formal writing. Students write both free choice and assigned entries, and their entries become the basis of all the themes they write; in-class assignments focus on the improvement of specific aspects of the journal…
Descriptors: Assignments, College English, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Johannessen, Larry R. – 1990
This paper presents practical classroom activities for teaching narrative/descriptive writing based on approaches to writing instruction that research indicates are powerfully effective, and discusses principles upon which effective and exciting instruction can be designed. The paper gives a brief overview of what research in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Palumbo, Donald – 1979
Based on the premise that fortune telling is a spontaneous narrative exercise, this paper proposes that the Tarot deck is a marvelously intricate and finely tooled mechanism for generating innumerable, remarkably coherent stories in the archetypal mode. It explains the organization of the Tarot deck, the 78 cards and their meanings, and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Weiss, R. H.; Walters, S. A. – 1980
A study was conducted to determine whether subject-related writing tasks assigned in college courses (1) increased the amounts and clarity of student learning, (2) led to improved student writing performance, and (3) changed levels of student apprehension about writing. Students enrolled in two sections of courses taught by each of four…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Research, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
