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Hyland, Fiona; Hyland, Ken – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2001
Offers a detailed text analysis of written feedback given by two teachers of English-as-a-Second-Language students. Considers this feedback in terms of it functions as praise, criticism, and suggestions. Explores the motivations for these through teacher interviews and think-aloud protocols and examines cases where students failed to understand…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Correction, Feedback, Interviews
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Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Kaartinen, Sinikka – Journal of Experimental Education, 2003
The authors investigated the microlevel processes of collaborative reasoning in heterogeneous peer dyads working on an open-design task in elementary geometry. Special attention was paid to the nature of student social interaction, problem-solving strategies, and mathematical language and how they shape collaborative problem-solving processes.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Problem Based Learning
Staarman, Judith Kleine; Krol, Karen; Meijden, Henny van der – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2005
The aim of the study was to gain insight into the occurrence of different types of peer interaction and particularly the types of interaction beneficial for learning in different collaborative learning environments. Based on theoretical notions related to collaborative learning and peer interaction, a coding scheme was developed to analyze the…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Educational Environment, Cooperative Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Greenhow, Christine; Dexter, Sara; Riedel, Eric – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2006
Online delivery methods offer much promise for anytime, anywhere adult learning. As a method of outreach, and to provide support for just-in-time learning, teacher educators are increasingly deciding to design Web sites that are online, resource-based learning environments for teachers and preservice teachers. Automated evaluation tools and data…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Technology Integration, Adult Learning, Educational Technology
Derry, Sharon; And Others – 1993
This study examined ways in which two independent variables, peer collaboration and the use of a specific tool (the TAPS interface), work together and individually to shape students' problem-solving processes. More specifically, the researchers were interested in determining how collaboration and TAPS use cause metacognitive processes to differ…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Armstrong, James O. – 1993
One way that teachers can assist students to learn from their textbooks is through the use of verbal-spatial representations of text structure. This report offers teachers and teacher educators information about learning to make idea maps for instructional use with elementary science texts. Idea maps, which are verbal-spatial representations of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Graphic Organizers
Stahl, Steven A.; And Others – 1991
Using a newspaper article about a ceremony marking the retirement of baseball player Tom Seaver's uniform number, a study examined: (1) the effects of knowledge of baseball in general and of the career of Tom Seaver in particular; and (2) the effects of knowledge of word meanings in general and of words used in the passage specifically on 10th…
Descriptors: Baseball, Context Clues, Grade 10, High Schools
Wimbish, G. Joseph – 1990
Peer oral protocols and group oral protocols were assessed for their use in improving certain analytic skills of undergraduate college students at a liberal arts college in Alabama. In association with the study, the theoretical and experimental literature on the use of peer and group educational interventions is outlined briefly. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Algebra, Analogy, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Tests
Harste, Jerome C. – 1986
A study was conducted to identify strategies used by successful readers in comprehending and interpreting various kinds of texts. Seventy-three graduate students were asked to keep a journal (unedited and freely written) of what they were thinking as they were reading Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose." Selected journal entries…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Context Effect, Creative Thinking, Critical Reading
Seda, Ileana – 1989
In response to the tradition of examining a new test's validity by comparing it with a well-established multiple-choice test, a study investigated whether multiple-choice tests with one right answer can measure the reading comprehension process as defined by constructivists. The study compared the information obtained from two different…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grade 3
Brock, Sue – Australian Journal of Reading, 1987
Discusses ways in which talk during writing and group discussion can help children's writing, including (1) helping teachers learn to listen, (2) teaching children to elaborate and clarify, (3) giving children experience with an audience and reasons for writing, (4) helping children gather ideas and assistance, and (5) teaching children to be…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communication Research, Critical Thinking
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Moxley, Roy A.; Barry, Pamela A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that microcomputer programs in LOGO can support children's development of invented spelling within a language experience approach. Presents protocols of three nursery school children using such programs that show promising growth in their writing and reading skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories, Language Experience Approach
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VanSledright, Bruce; Afflerbach, Peter – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2000
Examines how the reading of two revisionist history text accounts concerning U.S. President Andrew Jackson influenced the historical interpretations and understanding of two prospective elementary teachers. Suggests that rhetorically powerful revisionist history texts may have the capacity to re-narrativize the thinking of prospective teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Silven, Maarit; Vauras, Marja – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Effects of training in thinking aloud on the development of reading skills were examined for 64 sixth graders in 2 Finnish towns. Trainees adopted five of seven text processing strategies they were taught and were most responsive when the trainer modeled thinking aloud and guided students in the activity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
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Davies, William D.; Kaplan, Tamar I. – Applied Linguistics, 1998
An experiment compared group oral protocols of 37 native English-speaking subjects enrolled in a fourth-semester college French course making grammaticality judgments in English and French. Results indicate the subjects do not necessarily use the same strategies in rendering grammaticality judgments in first and second languages, casting doubt on…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English, French
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