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Barkhuizen, Gary – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
This article reports on one aspect of a larger study which aimed to explore the context-specific experiences of English teachers at tertiary institutions in China (Wette & Barkhuizen, 2007). Data were collected during a professional development program run in the summer of 2006. The program aimed to cover recent trends in the field of second…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Writing Research, Research Projects, Research Methodology
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Cooper, Allene; Kehl, D. G. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1991
Reports on a survey of 40 geographically representative state and private universities with sizable composition programs. Documents both the need for and interest in peer coaching of teaching assistants. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peer Coaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions
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Krater, Joan; Zeni, Jane – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Describes an action research project which began by asking how English teachers could improve the writing of their African American students, and gradually came to ask how the teachers' own cultural assumptions might be blocking their teaching relationships. Identifies and discusses eight principles of their approach, and discusses changes in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Mickelson, Norma; Davies, Anne – 1987
Focusing on a whole language program for the middle grades in Canada's Northwest Territories, this interview transcript consists of responses by Anne Davies, a teacher from Yellow Knife, in the Northwest Territories, and currently a doctoral student, to questions posed by Norma Mickelson, a professor at the University of Victoria in British…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries