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Dainville, Julie; Sans, Benoît – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Since July 2013, our research team has been working on a project that aims at re-introducing rhetorical exercises in Belgian secondary (high) schools and at studying their effects on the pupils. Our hypothesis is that the regular practice of rhetorical exercises, inspired by those practised in Antiquity, could stimulate skills like…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Teaching Methods, Experimental Curriculum, Writing (Composition)
Devenney, Raymond – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1988
An approach to persuasive writing is presented for English-as-a-Second-Language classrooms. Activities include discussion to activate past experience, connecting experience to purpose, constructing the argument, extending the argument, supporting the argument, and examining and evaluating alternatives. (12 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse
Borgstam, Stina – 1980
TREX, which stands for "translating into the mother tongue as an exercise in written language," is a classroom technique for exploring the native language by translating from a second or source language. The central feature is the individual student activity of translating, with subsequent group examination and comparison of lexical,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Language Styles
Franken, Margaret – Guidelines, 1993
Suggestions are offered to help secondary and postsecondary language teachers think more deeply about speaking activities that prepare students for writing. Criteria for evaluating prewriting activities are discussed, along with brainstorming, collaborative concept mapping, and the 4/3/2 technique. (Contains 14 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Classroom Techniques, Concept Mapping, Foreign Countries
Sullivan, Zola Jiles – 1980
Intended to help teachers in developing language arts curriculum materials for use with the children of recent Bahamian immigrants to the United States, this paper contains approximately 500 topics for creative and expository writing based on the roots of Bahamian culture. The topics are arranged into areas of interest, including Bahamian pride,…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Cultural Awareness
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
Seidlhofer, Barbara – 1990
The activity of summarization relates discourse comprehension and production in a particularly striking way: it derives writing from reading, in that the rendering of a text depends on its previous interpretation. There are two very different kinds of summaries including: abbreviated versions and brief accounts. An abbreviated version is the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Sullivan, Zola Jiles – 1980
Intended to help teachers in developing language arts curriculum materials for use with recent Cuban refugees to the United States, this paper contains 300 topics for creative and expository writing based on the roots of the Cuban culture. The topics cover a variety of subjects, including food preparation, memories of Cuba, experiences in a new…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Cubans
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
Christensen, Torkil – Hokusei Womens Junior College Kiyo, 1986
A technique for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) that requires students to write relatively simple English in large volume has been successful in developing both language skills and self-confidence. Students rewrite stories to reflect situations and conditions different from those in the original telling; for example, by changing the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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
Francois, Frederic – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 1998
The ways that adults have of reading and interpreting students' writing are examined, using for illustration six writing samples of one 13-year-old student. The student's instructions were to tell, in writing, an imaginary story, a true story, a personal history, a favorite dream, the most awful nightmare, and the worst memory. Different attitudes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Criteria
Smith, Sue; And Others – 1995
A unit used in an Australian school to teach English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students how to write a discussion is described. The 3-week unit was planned and implemented jointly by an ESL resource teacher, class teacher, and teacher librarian. The class was divided into three heterogeneous groups, two of which were observed for this study and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Smith, Karen – 2002
This lesson will introduce intermediate students to the Japanese poetic form of "haiku," which is most effectively taught after students have an understanding of syllables. The lesson plan's introductory activity is designed to introduce students to the geography of Japan, as well as Japanese culture through Asian art and music--after…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context
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