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Direct linkHelen K. Liu; Zih-Yang Zhou; Benjamin Jackson – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
Wikipedia-based assignments have been adopted successfully in classrooms to improve learning outcomes. However, although this teaching method has been adopted regularly in Western higher education settings, more is needed in an international learning environment. Therefore, this research investigates how employing technology-mediated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Public Administration Education, Web Sites
Download full textCook, Lenora – 1986
To describe a cross-curriculum writing model designed for a middle school, this paper provides a condensed script of what the designer of the program said and did during its first year to steer the program in a productive direction. The paper is written in the form of exerpts from relevant conversations. The first conversation relates how the idea…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, English (Second Language), Middle Schools, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedAllison, Desmond – ELT Journal, 1986
Argues that when students of English as a second language (ESL) use English in preparing and writing assignments in other subjects of study, they face communication problems that deserve special attention in the language class. Shows how ESL teachers can cooperate with the teachers of other subjects to help the students. (SED)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Peer reviewedCanseco, Grace; Byrd, Patricia – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Reports on characteristics of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing assignments in graduate business courses, and discusses the different types of writing assignments, vocabulary used to label the assignments, and the use of prompts to guide the writing assignments. Implications for ESL writing courses for nonnative speakers entering business…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Content Area Writing, Course Descriptions, Cues
Weissberg, Robert – 1987
Recent research indicates that typical writing assignments given to advanced students of English as a second language do not prepare them for university level writing. However, the technique of information transfer, which involves presentation of a visual stimulus to prompt writing, can be used effectively to practice the skills most…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Content Area Writing, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedReppen, Randi – TESOL Journal, 1995
Describes a genre-based approach to content writing instruction used in a fifth-grade social studies class in which the majority of the students came from English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) backgrounds. A unit on explorers and exploration used narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository writing assignments to improve the students'…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Woodruff, Barbara Bilson, Ed. – Inside English, 1988
Designed primarily for English faculty at community colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The first issue of volume 15 focuses primarily on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1986
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 13 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
