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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
Tat Heung Choi; Ka Wa Ng – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: This paper, which originates in an English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom activity in Hong Kong, aims to explore English learners' expressive and creative potential in writing by studying their work in the literary narrative genre. Design/methodology/approach: A group of upper secondary students (15-16 years of age) with limited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
Avila, Hernán A. – HOW, 2016
This article introduces a pedagogical intervention that includes a set of creative activities designed to improve the oral and written production of students in the English classroom, especially those who have shown a lack of interest or attention. It was observed that participants initially seemed careless about studying the language. Eventually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Estalkhbijari, 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)
Kresovich, Brant M. – Southern Review, 1989
Seven sentence combining activities designed to be stimulating and effective for college-level Japanese students of English as a Second Language are described. It is also demonstrated that a wide range of subjects can provide viable and engaging topics for the activities. The exercises include the following: (1) combining sentences provided into a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries

Parry, Sally E. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1987
Details business communications course assignment in which students role played for a semester as representatives of American companies with international exposure. Students researched their company, wrote for annual reports, analyzed them for the class, concentrated on a foreign country, and wrote reports combining research on the country with…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Class Activities, Foreign Countries
Panuska, Janet A. – 1989
This paper offers a sample selection of exercises from the text "Rapid Transit to Sentence Writing," which is based on the idea that learning to write a sentence is a process which involves understanding the relationship of the parts of the sentence to the whole sentence. The book received the 1989 Innovative Teaching Honors Award from…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Creative Teaching, English Instruction
Subramaniyan, N. – Guidelines, 1990
The place of literature in the foreign language classroom is described, and the effectiveness of the short story is noted. Suggestions are offered regarding selection criteria, classroom activities, oral activities, role play, oral comprehension, and a variety of written exercises including sequencing and writing dialog. (Contains seven…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Oral Language
Davis, Pamela; Juliebo, Moira – 1989
This language arts lesson designed for grade five involves drama as a focal point in preparing children to write a short story similar to the one they first create through improvisation. Included are the objectives of the lesson, materials, the children's previous experience, the step-by-step procedure with accompanying teacher points, the writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Foreign Countries, Grade 5
Francais dans le Monde, 1989
Describes four activities for the French-as-a-Second-Language classroom, including: a lesson in the interpretation of graphs (Lescure); a unit on measurement, money systems, museums, and schools in France (Berteloot, Ploquin); oral and written exercises based on French history and culture (Ploquin, Store); and a vocabulary development activity…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, European History, Foreign Countries
Thomas-Cochran, Margarette – 1987
Based on the idea that children can learn to write letters to friends and relatives as soon as they learn to write words, this visually oriented pamphlet presents practical classroom activities that primary grade teachers can use to encourage their young students to practice letter writing skills. The pamphlet contains instructions for making a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Language Arts
Burtnett, Olga J. – 1988
A guide to personal letter writing for foreign language classes provides ideas, formats, and useful information for an instructional unit and student projects. The first section outlines unit goals and offers ideas for activities and assignments. These include class pen pals, teacher and parent letters, holiday letters, follow-ups for telegrams,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, French
Renner, Christopher E. – Perspectives, a Journal of TESOL-Italy, 1992
Second language learners need to be given tools with which they can make language learning a personal experience. In writing, this means that they are given the skills needed to collect, organize, and present information that stimulates acquisition of new vocabulary and production of authentic writing that encourages language-related risk-taking.…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Bourdet, Jean-Francois; Lieutaud, Simone – Francais dans le Monde, 1993
It is proposed that intercultural creative writing exercises can be conducted using the fax machine to communicate between schools, even in different countries. Specific themes and activities for French second-language writing projects are outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education
Mufarej, Selene Zocchio; Abrahamsohn, Maureen Alison – 1997
Deconstruction for reconstruction is a classroom teaching technique designed to help students improve writing skills. The objective is to write natural expanded sentences that fit in a cohesive paragraph. The technique evolved from observation of many intermediate and upper-intermediate students of English as a Second Language for whom writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Educational Strategies
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