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Jana Majercíková – Journal of Pedagogy, 2024
The paper discusses the issue of homework in primary education in Slovakia. It attempts to contribute to uncovering the homework narrative that is created and used by its teaching staff and to relate it to the discourse on homework and its place in education in the Anglo-American environment. The research used content analysis of the written…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Homework, Elementary School Teachers
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Ilhan Polat; Hakan Dedeoglu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Choosing a writing topic poses a particularly serious challenge for young learners. Topic selection affects all other steps of the writing process. Therefore, the writing topic should be related to a subject that the student knows about, is interested in, and can produce content on. Basing writing on students' immediate environment and experiences…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Narration, Writing Assignments
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Geoffrey Borman; Trisha Borman; Cong Ye; Lauren Stargel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: To combat stereotype threat, several school-based field trials have leveraged self-affirmation theory (Steele & Liu, 1983; Liu & Steele, 1986), wherein affirming one's important beliefs and values can buffer against identity threats. Self-affirmation theory posits that individuals are motivated to maintain a positive overall…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Assignments, Self Advocacy, Self Determination
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Getchell, Kristen M.; Lentz, Paula J. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
In this article, the authors present the notion of perspective as a threshold concept in business communication. Using an SoTL framework, the researchers explore the effect of teaching threshold concepts in a summary writing assignment in a foundational business communication class. Working with a close reading methodology, the authors examine the…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Business Communication, Fundamental Concepts, Gender Bias
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Beck, Sarah W.; Jones, Karis; Storm, Scott; Smith, Holly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
With dialogic writing assessment, teachers can scaffold students' writing processes in ways that are flexible and responsive to students' individual needs. Examples of teachers using this conference-based method of classroom writing assessment illustrate how to practice assessment that is dynamic and relational rather than static and standardized,…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Processes, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation
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Verlaan, Sue Oakes; Verlaan, Wolfram – Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation, 2020
Practical Implications: Detailing the steps of a reading response unit designed to prepare students for literary analysis based on their own ideas can provide insights to current writing teachers and teacher educators regarding ways in which they can design/modify their assignments to be more purposeful and therefore more engaging for those they…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Sequential Approach, Writing Instruction, Units of Study
Crawford, William J. – TESOL Press, 2020
Which components of grammar teaching--accuracy, meaningfulness, and appropriateness--are you the least comfortable including in your classroom activities? This Reflective Question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling "Teaching Grammar," which explores different…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Elizabeth Brockman – English Journal, 2020
After ten years of public school teaching and countless student teaching observations, the author knows firsthand that English language arts (ELA) teachers are committed to teaching researched argumentative writing and, further, they often frame their assignments as questions. In this article, the author proposes that ELA teachers accelerate…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Prompting, Persuasive Discourse
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Jones, Jeff C.; Bassett, Gennie M.; Lescalleet, Jacob L.; Wingert, Jason R. – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
CRISPR technologies are among the most powerful advancements in modern biology because they accurately manipulate the genomes of living cells and have the potential of curing various genetic diseases. This study examined the attitudes of undergraduate health science students towards somatic cell and germline gene editing therapies and whether…
Descriptors: Genetics, Science Instruction, Biology, Ethics
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Myatt, Alice J. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Collaborative writing assignments are an essential element of teaching technical and professional writing, and they should be included in online writing instruction (OWI). The COVID-19 pandemic was a drastic interruption of regular teaching practices that had the potential of derailing the practice of assigning online collaborative writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Collaborative Writing, Writing Assignments
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Nicole Schutte; Zhandi van Zyl – Perspectives in Education, 2023
In this conceptual paper, borne from the experiences of two academic literacy lecturers at the NWU, we ask, regarding elements of assessment, how we can sensibly adapt an intervention-style writing course in a post-COVID higher education context. We propose a course correction model, applicable to academic literacy writing courses, to address the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Reflection, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Angeliki Ypsilanti; Ioannis Karras – SAGE Open, 2023
The coursebook-centered approach adopted by the Hellenic Open University's Master's program in TEIL/TEFL has lost momentum during the coronavirus lockdown periods. This study addresses synergies between institutional policy and involved participants through the experience of an EFL teacher with a Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language)
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Nhu Huynh Le; Hung Tan Ha – SAGE Open, 2023
The article presents a lexical study that investigates the lexical demands of academic written texts at different levels of writing. By employing the British National Corpus/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list and the Academic Word List (AWL), the present study analyzed data from the British Academic Written English…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), North American English, Word Lists
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Sean J. Smith; Amber Rowland; K. Alisa Lowrey – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
Middle school learners with disabilities, particularly learning disabilities, struggle with organizing their thoughts, expressing their ideas, spelling, the use of content vocabulary, the mechanics of writing, fluency, and overall, the primary elements of written expression (Graham et al., 2015). While writing complicates learning for students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Writing Instruction
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Sibel Barcin – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
The fundamental skills in language teaching are reading, listening, speaking and writing. It is important to establish links with other language skill areas in the development of writing skills. In this study, it was aimed to analyze the writing skills of Kyrgyz students studying distance learning at A1 level during the pandemic. 28 Kyrgyz…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Distance Education, COVID-19
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