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Direct linkMacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Discover an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace. The text provides genre-based…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Critical Literacy
Peer reviewedAlexander, Kara Poe – Composition Studies, 2015
The literacy narrative assignment is popular with composition instructors because of the reflection it encourages in students. Previously, scholars have claimed that students demonstrate reflection in literacy narratives when they critique dominant ideologies. Largely absent, however, is research on what other elements might indicate reflection…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Assignments, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods
Barkaoui, Khaled – Assessing Writing, 2007
Educators often have to choose among different types of rating scales to assess second-language (L2) writing performance. There is little research, however, on how different rating scales affect rater performance. This study employed a mixed-method approach to investigate the effects of two different rating scales on EFL essay scores, rating…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Rating Scales, Essays
Marcus, Alan S.; Paxton, Richard J.; Meyerson, Peter – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
What and how do students learn about history from motion pictures? How does this knowledge interact with the history they learn in school? This is a complex problem space that has seen little empirical research. To lay the groundwork for addressing these questions, we describe two exploratory studies. The first study takes a broad view, using…
Descriptors: Films, United States History, High Schools, History Instruction
Download full textRorschach, Elizabeth G. – 1985
On the basis that English as a Second Language (ESL) writers encounter cross-cultural interference when dealing with the five-paragraph essay, a study was conducted to examine the writing of three ESL writers in a basic writing class. The case study of one of the subjects, a woman from Hong Kong, focused on her comments relating to the structure…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
Kubota, Mariko – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
This article analyzes the self-correction of spelling by learners of intermediate Japanese. Participants in this study consisted of 20 students with "kanji" (Chinese characters) background and 43 without. This study investigates (1) types of spelling errors made; (2) the success rate of corrections made when codes for types of errors…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Spelling, Pronunciation, Protocol Analysis
