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Direct linkEstela Ene Ed.; Betsy Gilliland Ed.; Sarah Henderson Lee Ed.; Tanita Saenkhum Ed.; Lisya Seloni Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers' unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing Instruction
Peer reviewedScotland, James – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This study explores whether collaboratively writing about local issues would enable learners to deepen their understanding of their relationship with their own social context. A discursive space within an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at an institution of higher education in Qatar was created. This was accomplished by replacing the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Local Issues, Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction
Download full textArifani, Yudhi – English Language Teaching, 2016
The development of local wisdom based sensitizing reading material is aimed at penetrating one of the imperishable gaps between authentic and non-authentic reading materials dispute in an EFL teaching context. Promoting EFL learners' needs for the first semester students of English department at university level, who rarely or even never have a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Materials, Textbook Preparation
Poe, Mya – Across the Disciplines, 2013
Although faculty across the curriculum are often faced with issues of racial identity in the teaching of writing, WAC has offered little support for addressing race in assignment design, classroom interactions, and assessment. Through examples from teaching workshops, I offer specific ways that we can engage discussions about teaching writing and…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Race, Teacher Workshops
Reinders, Hayo, Ed.; Nunan, David, Ed.; Zou, Bin, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2017
This book evaluates the origins of processes of change in language teaching in China, and the factors influencing their success. Examining diverse experiences and drawing on the perspectives of academics from the top institutions in the country, the authors analyse the complex interplay between global and local influences on language policies.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Plakans, Lia – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
As the field of second language writing embraces the authenticity and meaningfulness of connecting writing with other skills, language teachers and testers require greater understanding of how writers respond to as well as compose for integrated tasks. Research on integrated tasks is critical in highlighting how integration impacts students and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Protocol Analysis, Local Issues, Information Technology
Taylor, Tim N. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2005
By focusing on local problems or issues, student writers can craft research essays that exemplify civic engagement, a practice that reaffirms composition's tacit tradition from classical rhetoric and the educational philosophy of John Dewey. Volunteer experiences or local problems that affect students directly allow writers to actively research…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Research Papers (Students), Writing Instruction, Citizenship Education
Ashley, H. M.; Shafer, Lisa Kay – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2006
In this article, the authors describe the development of a pilot project called Writing Zones 12.5. Writing Zones 12.5 was created to help students find strategies for solving writing problems and help them become better writers at every stage of the writing process. The project touches on five of the nine principles that Center for Higher…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), College Preparation
