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Direct linkButcher, Charity – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Recent reports indicate that employers are increasingly interested in hiring individuals that can think critically and are able to solve complex problems. Further, the ability to apply knowledge learned during college to real-world settings is a major sought-after skill. Overall, these findings emphasize the importance of teaching our students to…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Concept Formation
Golpour, Farhad; Ahour, Touran; Ahangari, Saeideh – Cogent Education, 2019
This study aimed to find out the relationship among EFL university teachers' code-based and meaning-based beliefs in writing instruction, classroom writing activities and classroom organization. To this end, 120 university teachers, who were teaching writing to EFL learners at different universities in Iran, participated in the study. For the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Beliefs
Fried, Stephen – Thought & Action, 2016
A new teacher at a workshop shares that she had a difficult time getting students to write about 9/11. This teacher said that some students refused, while others became angry about being asked. Stephen Fried is an adjunct lecturer in English at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. In this article, Fried describes how…
Descriptors: College English, Student Participation, Teaching Experience, Student Attitudes
Download full textEstalkhbijari, Zahra Pakdel; Khodareza, Mohammadreza – International Education Studies, 2012
This study aims to investigate the effects of warm up tasks as classroom activities on foreign language written production. For showing these effects, sixty out of one hundred forty Iranian sophomore EFL students from the Islamic Azad University of Lahijan branch, Iran were selected after following the Oxford Placement Test (OPT). Then, they were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Ability, Writing Exercises, English (Second Language)
Starting with Worldviews: A Five-Step Preparatory Approach to Integrative Interdisciplinary Learning
Augsburg, Tanya; Chitewere, Tendai – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
In this article we propose a five-step sequenced approach to integrative interdisciplinary learning in undergraduate gateway courses. Drawing from the literature of interdisciplinarity, transformative learning theory, and theories of reflective learning, we utilize a sequence of five steps early in our respective undergraduate gateway courses to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, World Views
Hunley, Tom C. – College Teaching, 2003
A sentence variety exercise, used to help student writers consciously consider and control the lengths and types of sentences in their essays, is discussed. Students revised paragraphs according to the method and reflected on whether they found the exercise useful in improving their writing. Reactions were mixed, although most students were able…
Descriptors: Sentences, Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
