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Jennifer Shand; Grace Oakley; Emily Purvis – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
This interpretivist study investigated the perspectives of Year 10 students who struggled with writing and who attended schools in areas with a low socio-educational index on learning environments for the English learning area. Specifically, students were asked what they believed a positive learning environment in the English classroom to be, how…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Writing Difficulties
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Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
Over the past 15 years, there has been a range of standards-driven educational interventions in England: focused particularly on students' writing, they have been targeted at particular students, short-term and based on the assumption that identifiable, quantifiable inputs would produce pre-identified, measurable outputs. This article explores one…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Standards, Intervention
Shermis, Michael – 1989
This annotated bibliography contains 26 references on writing apprehension found in the ERIC database. The bibliography contains citations from the period between 1985 and 1989 and is divided into four sections. The first section lists sources of teaching ideas. Citations in the second section deal with the use of computers in alleviating writing…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Gaskins, Jacob C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Describes a writing instruction project called the "landmark method" that fosters writing skills in students with learning disabilities. Outlines specific strategies that have proven effective in teaching writing to students with dyslexia or other learning disabilities. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, English Instruction, Higher Education
Beech, Jennifer – 1998
The job of teachers of composition is to teach students how to write, and what they teach them to write is the school essay. Yet, if they stop to see the school essay for what it really is, they will discover that for all their humanistic claims of wanting to give students voices, the genre is one that actually works to exclude many of these…
Descriptors: College English, College Students, English Instruction, Essays
Lifschutz, Ellen St. Sure – 1982
This report describes the Special Sections of Freshman English for Poorly Prepared Students at the University of California at Berkeley. The development of the program is described, including the rationale behind the course, the diverse student make-up, and some of the teaching techniques used (allowing students to choose topics, peer editing, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Erickson, Marianne – 1991
When evaluating the work of congenitally deaf students whose native language is spatial and semiotic, composition teachers must avoid being what Marjorie Siegel calls "verbocentric," since congenitally deaf students are, in effect, learning to write in a language completely foreign to them in structure, syntax, and grammar. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cued Speech, Deafness, English Instruction