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Download full textSuriyanti, Sufatmi; Yaacob, Aizan – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2016
Purpose: This paper is the outcome of a study which examined teacher strategies in teaching descriptive writing to junior high school students in Delitua, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The study was based on two questions: 1) What are the teaching strategies used by EFL teachers in teaching descriptive writing? 2) To what extent did the descriptive…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods, Interviews
Direct linkDix, Stephanie – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Changes in political, social and educational curriculum policies over the past four decades have created discursive shifts in writing theory and practice for New Zealand primary teachers. While these policies have historically privileged a particular view of writing over others, very little is known as to how teachers engage with experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Self Concept, Educational Policy
Teng, Xuan – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Despite the growing interest in examining the link between peer-peer collaborative dialogue and second language (L2) development in recent years (Swain, Brooks, & Tocalli-Beller, 2002), much of the empirical work in this regard focused on face-to-face communication, leaving the operationalization of collaborative dialogue in text-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Peer Relationship
Tran, Huong Quynh – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated the situation of teaching and learning idioms at a university level in Vietnam, a foreign language context. It also examined the evaluation of the idiom teaching process in three language classes over a 15-week period for pre-service teachers of English. The data were collected though questionnaires, in-depth interviews and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
Myers, James L. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
In a case study, I applied philosophical hermeneutic principles in an advanced level EFL writing class in Taiwan. A "fusion of horizons" occurs at the junction of two intertwined interpretations: one from our socio-historical tradition and the other from our experience of novel phenomena. I explored students' hermeneutic horizons in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Figurative Language, Hermeneutics
National Council of Teachers of English, 2004
This issue of "Classroom Notes Plus" contains descriptions of original, unpublished teaching practices, and of adapted ideas. Under the "Ideas from the Classroom" section, the August 2003 issue (v21 n1) contains the following materials: Reading Poetry with Wright's "Black Boy" (David Fuder); Finding Poetry Lost in Translation (James Penha); "Lord…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Poetry, African American Literature
