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Mike Metz – English Journal, 2020
In this article the author first defines high- quality text- based discussions. Then, he demonstrates how talk in the language of comfort meets the definition of high- quality discussion. Next, he illustrates how teachers can encourage and support students to discuss texts using their language of comfort. The examples of discussions come from two…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Language Usage, Student Empowerment, Urban Schools
Naitnaphit Limlamai – English Journal, 2018
Words are more than a string of sounds and letters that denote a particular meaning. Linguistic anthropologist Judith T. Irvine contends that speaking is a social activity where the relationship of language, culture, and society is enacted (249). Linguist Deborah Cameron defines language ideology in "Verbal Hygiene" as the notions,…
Descriptors: Language, Ideology, High School Students, Language Usage
Michelle D. Devereaux; Darren Crovitz – English Journal, 2018
This piece explores how moving from grammar instruction to language study empowers students and their writing. To shift perspective and re-envision how language discussion can begin in the classroom, suggestions are offered with power dynamics and contextual needs of real communication situations. The authors detail activities that draw on…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Reading Instruction, Grammar, Educational Benefits
Lisa Beckelhimer – English Journal, 2017
The author argues that English teachers are in a unique position to respond to death through writing, reading, and speaking. She describes four experiences and offers specific, language-based responses guided by experience and literature.
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Instruction, Death, Writing (Composition)
Sherry Seale Swain; Richard L. Graves; David T. Morse – English Journal, 2015
Picture a group of classroom teachers gathered around a table late one afternoon discussing the results of the statewide writing assessment, the returned scored papers scattered across the table top. This article details research exploring which rhetorical elements are associated with statewide assessment scores and considers the role and…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Standardized Tests, Scores, Writing (Composition)
Brandie Bohney – English Journal, 2016
Recounting a successful means of introducing other Englishes, the author encourages understanding and acceptance of devalued Englishes among mainstream-English-speaking students.
Descriptors: Language Usage, English, Dialects, Educational Change
Tanji Reed Marshall – English Journal, 2018
This article raises the reality of English as a naturally variant and fluid language inseparable from culture. The author addresses the tensions teachers face in the classroom when they make decisions about how African American students should use their language.
Descriptors: African American Students, Language Usage, Black Dialects, Cultural Influences
Guler, Nilufer – English Journal, 2013
This article suggests effective approaches to teaching English language learners in ways that can be of benefit to all students in mainstream middle and high school English classes. The five approaches described herein that mainstream ESL teachers can do to make assessments more accurate and reliable, as well as to address heterogeneity, are: (1)…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Mainstreaming, Teaching Methods, Literacy
Anne Whitney; Patrick Shannon – English Journal, 2014
This article interrogates some metaphors that Common Core State Standards (CCSS) proponents have used as arguments to characterize CCSS, and then checks the facts that others have amassed around the issue. The authors offer up considerations of metaphor as a rhetorical resistance strategy: Name, Frame, Fact (Check), and then Speak Up. Teachers…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Advocacy, Educational Change
Daniel O. Lawler – English Journal, 2013
This article explores problems with the trend of business language making its way into schools and provides strategies for how to address this issue.
Descriptors: Business, Language Variation, Educational Strategies, Educational Environment
Gregory Shafer – English Journal, 2013
It is important for students to understand and analyze political language so that they can be participatory members of a democratic society. This article stresses the importance of understanding and analyzing political language. The author claims that the mastery of such skills is what allows students to be participatory members of a democratic…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Language Usage, Jargon, Language Arts
Ashley S. Boyd; Taylor Bereiter – English Journal, 2017
The authors identify the necessity of focusing on and pluralizing understandings of transgender youth experiences and trans-specific topics. This is especially important for preservice teachers, who will be the ones to have similar discussions with their own students in the future. The authors describe a series of classroom activities and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Language Usage, LGBTQ People, Class Activities
Haas, Kay Parks – English Journal, 2011
The author has always had an appreciation of language--its rhythms, sounds, wordplay, dialects, usage variations, and powers to manipulate. Reflecting on how she came to this appreciation, she remembers her father reciting poems to her when she was a little girl. She was enthralled by the rhythm, the rhyme, and the sounds of the words--both…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Rhythm, Language Usage, Language Variation
Jie Y. Park; Lori Simpson; Jesse Bicknell; Sarah Michaels – English Journal, 2015
In this article, a team of university-based researchers and ESL teachers describes how English learners in a high school responded to Poetry Inside Out -- a poetry -- and translation-based literacy curriculum.
Descriptors: High School Students, English Learners, Poetry, Translation
Goodman, Barbara A. – English Journal, 2011
Shakespeare molded language to meet his needs. Can students learn from his example? In this article, the author suggests studying Shakespeare's creative use of functional shift, spelling, and vocabulary to help students develop greater control of their own writing. The author is advocating that teachers approach Shakespeare as descriptive…
Descriptors: Drama, English Literature, Language Usage, Student Writing Models