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McKnight, Lucinda – English in Education, 2021
Conflicting ways to understand the nature of paragraphs, including their purpose and structure, have been central to composition theory for many decades. Yet English teachers across countries are experiencing ongoing pressures to mandate a specific paragraph template. This article traces the contentious, binary history of paragraph theory and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sentences, English Teachers
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Finch, Mary – English in Australia, 2021
Hattie and Timperley's (2007) model of effective feedback, widely used in teacher professional development, provides an easily-applied framework for thinking about the information contained in feedback. However, the model simplifies a complex phenomenon shaped in practice by interpersonal, disciplinary and institutional aspects. Examining the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Faculty Development
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Lee, Cynthia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
The aim of this article is to reveal the ways in which six 14- to 15-year-old second language (L2) learners, two each of high, mid, and low English proficiency levels were cognitively engaged in writing while using an automated content feedback program known as the Essay Critiquing System 2.0 in three out of five workshops in a Hong Kong secondary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Automation, Feedback (Response), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Griffiths, Pauline – English in Australia, 2018
The ancient literary form of commonplace books offers rich possibilities to students and teachers of English in Australian schools in the 21st century. By briefly tracing early uses of commonplace books and examining contemporary approaches to the teaching of writing, this paper re-imagines the 15th century commonplace book as a personal learning…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Books
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Copping, Adrian – Education 3-13, 2018
This paper explores writing pedagogy in the primary classroom and connections between children thinking creatively and their achievement in writing. Initially 'continuing professional development' for teachers, I designed and facilitated a two-day writing workshop with a class of children around the theme of a Victorian murder mystery. This was…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops
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Jones, Susan – Language and Education, 2014
Cognitive models of the writing process make a distinction between the functions of planning and translation: the first to generate ideas, the second to represent these ideas in written linguistic conventions. For many writers however, ideas do not always appear to precede the act of writing, rather they appear to be discovered through it. This…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Metacognition, Models, Writing Instruction
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Feltham, Mark; Sharen, Colleen – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
Students often express surprise at their grades on papers. This gap between expectation and achievement may stem in part from lack of facility with revision strategies. How, then, can teachers work with their students to foster more effective revisions? This question in teaching and learning has inspired an interdisciplinary collaboration: one of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition), Metacognition, Writing Processes
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Dymoke, Sue – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This paper explores the impact of a Spoken Word Education Programme (SWEP hereafter) on young people's engagement with poetry in a group of schools in London, UK. It does so with reference to the secondary Discourses of school-based learning and the Spoken Word community, an artistic "community of practice" into which they were being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Oral Language, Oral Reading
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Ho, Mei-ching – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This study investigates the use of face-to-face and computer-mediated peer review in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing course to examine how different interaction modes affect comment categories, students' revisions, and their perceptions of peer feedback. The participants were an intact class of 13 students at a Taiwanese university.…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Intermode Differences
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Chien, Shih-Chieh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of students' use of writing strategies in light of their English writing achievements in Taiwan. This research used a cognitive approach to examine the process of writing. Forty student writers (including 20 low and 20 high achievers) in Taiwan participated in this study. Strategies used for…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Low Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Guth, Sarah – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
In this article Sarah Guth describes an online course for writing research articles in English she developed for engineering students at the University of Padua in Italy. Designed to overcome time-space constraints as well as to provide both linguistic and discipline-specific feedback, the course integrated peer editing as a key component of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Writing Research
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Luce-Kapler, Rebecca – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
This paper considers some of the benefits of reading and writing e-literature, including its influences on prints texts, challenges to the imagination, and attention to metafictive devices and processes. The less cohesive, more fragmented quality of e-literature creates a subjunctive space for creation where writers can consider interesting…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Electronic Publishing, Creativity, Literature
Peacock, Colin – 1981
"Language Skills in English," a three-year project designed to explore the application of mastery learning techniques to solve the reading and writing problems of secondary school students in Scotland, is discussed in this paper. Background information provided in the first section of the paper concerns the context of the project, its…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
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Bennett, Bruce; Walker, Adrienne – English in Australia, 1978
Outlines the achievements and the difficulties that occurred in the first year of a research project on the development of writing abilities in the senior years of western Australian high schools. (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Educational Research, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Hill, Jeff – 1993
An English teacher at Hokkaido International School, Japan, guided his students through the writing process of thinking up ideas for writing topics and developing and revising those ideas into competent works. The class was composed of seven non-native speakers (in grades nine through twelve) who tried to achieve fluency in English within the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
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