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Dursky, Janice – 1993
This paper focuses on ways to include collaborative learning experiences in reading/writing courses as a method of addressing the demands for improving the communication skills of college students. It includes suggestions drawn from methods used in a college developmental reading class (which can, however, be modified for other types of classes),…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education
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Kauffmann, Ruth A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1996
Discusses the use of writing assignments to improve the capacity of literature students to read and analyze assigned texts in the foreign language. The approach provides a higher level of motivation for self-correction that will enable students to overcome, rather than formalize, their errors. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Essays, Higher Education, Literature, Reading Comprehension
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Hollingsworth, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1993
Offers eight teaching suggestions from teachers, regarding an effective strategy for teaching inferential comprehension, how to chose a good book, book celebrations, annotation writing for developmental readers, an assignment to promote reading for pleasure, a discussion group program for adult new readers, memo writing as an information network,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education