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Direct linkBeckelhimer, Lisa – English Journal, 2011
In this article, the author focuses on her experiences with genre analysis. This is not a new idea or assignment. But gearing the analysis specifically toward thinking about purpose significantly narrows the focus of a typical "here's what this genre is and who uses it" essay. Genre analysis asks students to think in-depth about one particular…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Technical Writing, Language Styles, Literary Genres
House, Jeff – English Journal, 2009
How a person teaches grammar depends on what he or she believes it does. Some see grammar as a set of rules, inherited from wise forefathers. For them, teaching grammar means making students aware of, and then holding them to, these rules. Others see grammar as an expression of style, an invitation to the writer to explore how to create a…
Descriptors: Grammar, Memorization, Drills (Practice), Teaching Methods
Schuster, Edgar H. – English Journal, 2005
An English teacher provides some sentence comparison activities that enlarge students' linguistic resources for writing. He believes that students can learn to revise for style if they recognize the stylistic choices writers make.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sentence Structure, English Teachers, Writing Instruction
Van Wyhe, Tamara L. C. – English Journal, 2006
In this article, the author relates her experience in teaching poetry and how it shapes everything she and her students do in the classroom. As a language arts teacher for students in grades 7 to 12, she discovered poetry to be magical in many ways, for it offers such advantages as, brevity, which allows a quick reading and discussion of a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Language Arts, Poetry, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedSimmons, Eileen A. – English Journal, 1991
Describes the dilemmas involved with teaching Standard American English (SAE) while still accepting and not judging nonstandard dialects. Relates how the teacher used "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw to show students why they needed to learn SAE. (PRA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Styles, Nonstandard Dialects
Peer reviewedLockhart, James – English Journal, 1991
Discusses how activities relating to dialect and nonstandard English are integrated into the curriculum in a middle school English class. Describes numerous class activities that result from reading aloud literary works in a wide array of dialects. Asserts the need for respect for linguistic variation in the classroom and in society. (PRA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Styles
Peer reviewedSullivan, Anne McCrary – English Journal, 1991
Describes an approach to teaching standard English to basic students that puts them at ease. Discusses "linguistic drift," the changes that take place in language over time. Describes a daily one-minute-drill listening exercise in standard English that is effective and leaves most of classtime to explore rich verbal experiences. (PRA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Styles
