NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
di Gennaro, Kristen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
To effectively address the needs of second language (L2) learners in college writing courses, many postsecondary institutions, especially those located in cities with high concentrations of immigrants, offer college-level courses for L2 students. Such courses include noncredit English language courses in an intensive English program, developmental…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Basic Writing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Caldwell, David; DeRusha, Jeanine; Stanton-Hammond, Gail; Straight, Steve; Sullivan, Patrick – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
In this article, the authors report on an assessment project they recently conducted at their open admissions community college to assess student work at the end of the basic writing sequence. The authors' focus for this project was on the way students used essay structure. They gathered artifacts from students who were deemed "ready" by…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Program Effectiveness, Open Enrollment, College Outcomes Assessment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Plachta, Susan M.; Morris, Kevin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
In this article, the authors discuss what works for them in their first-year composition classes. In order to promote critical thinking and goal setting within her developmental writing and first-year composition classes, Susan Plachta begins their first class session by completing the standard introductions and syllabus discussions and finishes…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Basic Writing, Goal Orientation, Writing Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hassel, Holly; Giordano, Joanne Baird – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
In this essay, the authors describe the results of a scholarship of teaching and learning project that conducted a qualitative study of the writing development of 21 student writers during the first year of college, tracking their progress in an English 101 course and following them as they moved into the core, transfer-level composition course.…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Basic Writing, Rhetoric, Classroom Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stine, Linda – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Online learning, according to a recent Department of Education meta-analysis (Means et al. 2009), is equal to and sometimes better than traditional face-to-face instruction, while hybrid education is best of all. Students seem eager to reap those online benefits; the March 2009 "Digest of Education Statistics" reports that the U.S. college with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Basic Writing, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Accardi, Steven; Davila, Bethany – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2007
For years, educators have approached college writing from three distinct pedagogies: composition studies, basic writing, and ESL. But now as these classrooms have diversified, mixed, and blended, separated pedagogies are no longer effective. In other words, these three fields (each with its own journals and conferences) have the same common…
Descriptors: College English, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods