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Direct linkUnger, John A.; Liu, Rong; Scullion, Vicki A. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This theory-into-practice paper integrates Tomasello's concept of Joint Attentional Frames and well-known ideas related to the work of Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, with more recent ideas from social semiotics. Classroom procedures for incorporating student-created Joint Attentional Frames into literacy lessons are explained by links to…
Descriptors: Attention, Evidence, Reading Processes, Writing Processes
Download full textBrown, Kevin – CEA Forum, 2015
In this article, the author describes his project to take every standardized exam English majors students take. During the summer and fall semesters of 2012, the author signed up for and took the GRE General Test, the Praxis Content Area Exam (English Language, Literature, and Composition: Content Knowledge), the Senior Major Field Tests in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College English, Test Preparation, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedMadden, Thomas R. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Suggests having students write short summaries using the principles of the journalistic news "lead" to help them sharpen their abstraction skills. Includes samples of data blocks from which students would compose their summaries, kernel sentences from the samples, "kernel" kernel sentences, first draft summaries, and 30-word…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, English Instruction, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedJacobs, Suzanne – College English, 1984
Describes the problems of writer-based writers, who are unable to select and relate their knowledge effectively, and proposes exercises to develop their writing skills. (MM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing
Block, Richard A.; Taylor, Shannon V. – 1984
A thinking-skills course at Montana State University is described, along with recent issues concerning the potential effectiveness of such courses. Advantages and disadvantages of different designs for studying the effects of thinking-skills training are also considered. The focus of the course is: hypothesis formation and evaluation, problem…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, Course Descriptions
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E.; Kral, Elmer A. – Educational Forum, 1985
This article presents 10 practical teaching procedures to encourage students to develop formal reasoning skills. A twelfth-grade English course is used as an example. Procedures include pretesting, sequencing instruction, providing students with concrete experiences, discussing reasoning patterns and forms of argumentation, assigning argumentative…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Debate
Meyers, Chet – 1986
The teaching of critical thinking is discussed, based on the view that methods of teaching critical thinking vary from discipline to discipline. After covering basic concepts related to teaching critical thinking, a framework to examine the process of critical thinking is presented, based on cognitive science and developmental theory, especially…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, College Instruction
