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Schmidt-McCormack, Jennifer A.; Judge, Jessyca A.; Spahr, Kellie; Yang, Ellen; Pugh, Raymond; Karlin, Ashley; Sattar, Atia; Thompson, Barry C.; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Acid-base chemistry is a foundational topic that is taught in courses across the chemistry curriculum. Students often have difficulty distinguishing between the different theories of acid-base chemistry--Brønsted-Lowry and Lewis acid-base chemistry--and applying these two definitions correctly in unfamiliar scenarios. To help students learn these…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Writing Assignments, Scientific Concepts
Richard Samuelson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Research exploring the efficacy of Service-Learning hasn't fully investigated potential implications for online modalities and transfer of learning. Therefore, during Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 semesters I taught two second-semester composition courses built around essays that required students to engage with communities outside the classroom.…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Kumar, Rita; Refaei, Brenda – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2017
Convinced of the power of PBL to promote students' critical thinking as demonstrated by its application across disciplines, we designed a series of problems for students in a second-year writing course. We collected samples of their writing before and after implementation of the problems. We were concerned about whether PBL pedagogy would…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Critical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Zou, Di; Xie, Haoran; Rao, Yanghui; Wong, Tak-Lam; Wang, Fu Lee; Wu, Qingyuan – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2017
The world has encountered and witnessed the great popularity of various emerging e-learning resources such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), textbooks and videos with the development of the big data era. It is critical to understand the characteristics of users to assist them to find desired and relevant learning resources in such a large…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Prior Learning
Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul; Chiger, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 2017
Part of helping students learn to read critically and with comprehension is guiding them to use writing to help think through the content and clarify what they understand--or don't. Looking at students' writing also helps teachers see how much learners are really understanding in their reading and where exactly any learner is struggling. After…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
Schwehm, Jeremy; Saxton, Jennifer; Stuckey, Annette – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2017
For adult learners in online courses, writing is the predominant means by which all interaction takes place. As those participating in online education rely heavily on engagement with content, peers, and instructors, special attention should be given to include various activities that promote written communication to foster a positive and engaging…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Adult Students, Writing (Composition), Learner Engagement
Coberly-Holt, Patricia G.; Walton, S. Taylor – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2017
Over a period of four years, the instructor of History and Theory of Adult Education monitored and recorded graduate students' reactions to the experiences of learning through writing assignments that incorporate diverse methods associated with stringent pedagogical and andragogical methods. After experiencing the two divergent teaching styles and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Assignments, Adult Students, Andragogy
Richard Beach – English Journal, 2017
The author describes two students creating narrative versions of an event from Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" to portray conflicts in characters' interactions to address the issue of sex abuse. Through rewriting events in texts, students gain a sense of how use of dialogue can serve to portray larger underlying tensions between…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Assignments, Perspective Taking, Creative Writing
Brinkmann, Lisa Marie; Duarte, Joana; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This article investigates how linguistic landscapes (LLs) can foster critical thinking about linguistic power relations and tensions in multilingual areas by acting as stimuli to reflect on the ethnolinguistic vitality of languages in a given region. We examine the pedagogical use of LLs as resources for the implementation of plurilingual…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Newell, George E.; Misar, Katherine S. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2022
This study explores one teacher's instructional method for teaching life sciences using argumentation and argumentative writing rather than simple templates for writing claims and evidence. The microethnographic discourse analytic case study reported here included the teacher and 26 "advanced" eighth-grade students in a suburban middle…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Grade 8, Discourse Analysis
Wang, Yi-Chien – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study explored the effects of technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) in an English as a foreign language (EFL) writing course on students' descriptive writing performance. A quasi-experiment was conducted. Students in two writing courses were recruited and randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Harrison, Jonathan – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2022
Research seems to show that captions and subtitles are generally beneficial to learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL), but some research does contradict this. Research on slideware and slide design seems to focus more on attractiveness of slides and less on educational effectiveness. However, research on slide design and specific…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Video Technology
Suraprajit, Prathomwat – English Language Teaching, 2022
Conditional sentences are difficult for EFL students to understand because of their complexity in both form and function. By analyzing the performances and opinions among EFL learners, the pedagogical contribution may be beneficial for both EFL students and teachers. The use, errors, and perceptions of Thai EFL students regarding conditional…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Error Patterns, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
Johnson, Esko; Hynynen, Nina – Intercultural Education, 2018
This research paper deals with intercultural knowledge and knowing as displayed in higher education student portfolios. The portfolios were written by student pairs taking a global education course at Centria University of Applied Sciences, Finland, during seven academic years. Conceptual metaphor theory and metaphor analysis were utilised to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Portfolios (Background Materials), College Students
Watson, Missy – Composition Studies, 2018
Research in sociolinguistics offers important understandings of the social dynamics impacting how language is acquired, used, perceived, and treated in the U.S. and beyond. It provides opportunities to critically examine societal structures and attitudes surrounding language (including personal beliefs) that create and uphold social and racial…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Graduate Students, Language Research, Language Teachers