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Deidre Faughey – English Journal, 2020
The author pushes two desks together in the front of the class and pile supplies on them: markers, drawing paper, rulers, and pencils. As the students enter a combined English language arts (ELA) and English as a New Language (ENL) tenth-grade classroom, they select what they need and settle in to their work. As an ELA educator who is also a…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Teaching Methods, Grade 10, High Schools
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Bunch, George C.; Walqui, Aída; Pearson, P. David – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
In the United States, new common state standards in English language arts and disciplinary literacy require K-12 students to "read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently." Issues of text complexity have spurred debates in the mainstream literacy, educational practice, and policy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Arts, Native Language
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Coles-Ritchie, Marilee – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2013
This study explores the process of implementing literature circles using ethnographies as the texts to better prepare teachers for multicultural/ multilingual teaching contexts. Data collected by the course instructor and two of the participants, using a Critical Teacher Action Research (CTAR) methodology, indicate that participants think…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Literature, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods
Roozafzai, Zahra Sadat – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
Reading is an extremely active, complex, mental and personal process that concerns both the reader and the text. It is now generally believed that a range of reader with text factors affect the reading process to a considerable extent. So, teachers of EFL need to be aware of the important role of teaching materials. Thus, this study investigated…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Reading Materials, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Marek, Michael; Wu, Pin-hsiang Natalie – Online Submission, 2011
This is a conceptual paper, based on several semesters of collaboration in which the American author interacted with students in the Taiwanese author's EFL classes in Taiwan. The best native language users are typically those who read extensively, especially reading for pleasure in their youth. This gives them a large vocabulary and an intuitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), English Language Learners