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Shawna-Kaye D. Tucker; Hamish Chalmers; Victoria A. Murphy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Creole-speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy development among numerous learners in the Global South. In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has…
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Writing Difficulties
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Fletcher, Anna Katarina – Educational Review, 2018
Effective feedback is an essential tool for making learning explicit and an essential feature of classroom practice that promotes learner autonomy. Yet, it remains a pressing challenge for teachers to scaffold the active involvement of students as critical, reflective and autonomous learners who use feedback constructively. This paper seeks to…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Writing Exercises
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Vakil, Ardashir – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
This article makes a case for the centrality of yearning in fictional representations of characters. With the help of illustrations from Adam Phillips, Olen Butler and Ted Hughes I argue that this key element may be missing from the creative work of students. This is my attempt, through exercises and other stimuli, to generate this yearning or…
Descriptors: Fiction, Creative Writing, Expectation, Masters Programs
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
Kitao, S. Kathleen; Saeki, Namie – Annual Reports of Studies, 1992
Traditional approaches to teaching writing have been challenged, and new methods have emerged that reflect the new understanding of this process. This paper compares and contrasts product-based and process-based approaches to teaching writing. Product approaches reflect traditional, teacher-centered approaches to teaching in general, emphasizing…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Journal Writing
Bean, Wendy; Bouffler, Chrystine – 1987
Specifically intended to address the teaching of spelling, this description of an elementary school program in Australia deals with many of the pedagogical problems that arise in whole language classrooms, and suggests ways for teachers to integrate a process approach to spelling with process writing to create a total language program. Following…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Process Education