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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Freshman English"”.
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Computer Technology in Writing Centers: Ways to Increase Their Effectiveness in the Instruction of Freshman English and Intercurricular Studies
… space in Room 127 that is increasingly vital to English 100 is more complicated than just having students write on computers. To maximize our potentials in Room 127, we must deal with a variety of aspects — the history of the Writing Center, its functions, perceptions of it, pedagogies related to …
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An Investigative Study: Audio Visual Instruction Aids Now Being Used in Freshman English Sections in American Colleges and Universities
… audio visual aids are now being used in college freshman composition sections of English in American colleges and universities.
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A Controlled Composition-Based Exercise Program to Teach Error Remediation in Writing in the High School Regular Freshman English Classroom
… program was developed for use in the high school freshman English writing classroom. This non-error-based method utilized a four-stage design -- attention grabber exercises, rewriting exercises, proofreading practice and test exercises, and writing assignments -- to teach error remediation through …
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The Effectiveness Of Read 180 At A Cooperative High School In New England (CHSNE)
… and achieve credit in a standard high school Freshman English course. The researcher notes alignment of common standards in the READ 180 program and the curriculum of the standard Freshman English course at the Cooperative High School of New England (CHSNE). This study concluded that students …
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The effect of direct, in-class grammar instruction on the quality of student writing
… of writing between two groups of students in freshman English classes at a large public university. The study compares one cohort of students, which met in traditional face-to-face class meetings as well as in an online environment and received direct grammar instruction in every class …
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Exploring the Relationship between English Composition Teachers' Beliefs about Written Feedback and Their Written Feedback Practices
<p>For teachers of freshman English composition, the most time-consuming aspect of teaching is responding to student papers (Anson, 2012; Straub, 2000b). Teachers respond in various ways, but most teachers agree that they should offer written feedback to students (Beach & Friedrich, 2006). However, …
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The effects of collaborative teaching on cognitive components of the career development process of beginning community college students
… was to investigate whether a career-oriented, freshman English class (WSACP), was beneficial in increasing student cognitive complexity beyond normal maturational development. Cognitive complexity was assessed along the Perry scheme of intellectual and ethical development by the Measure of …
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Learning language through collaboration
… on aspects of foreign-language learner’s spoken English, argument production, and attitude towards English use. Four freshman English classes (N=136) from a university in Taiwan participated in this quasi-experimental study. Two classes were randomly assigned to either the Collaborative Reasoning …
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Shyness and EFL learning in Taiwan : a study of shy and non-shy college students' use of strategies, foreign language anxiety, motivation, and willingness to communicate
… were 364 students enrolled in either Freshman English or Sophomore English courses in a private university in Taipei. They were asked to fill out self-report questionnaires about their global shyness, strategy use and motivation regarding their English studies, the degree of foreign …
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An evaluation of the changes implemented in the Virginia Student Transition Program (VSTP) at George Mason University, 1986-1987
… performance and grades earned in mathematic and freshman English for both the 1986 and 1990 program participants. The Pearson Chi Square was used to determine the difference in the means for the persistence rate between the 1986 and 1990 participants. The interview data were analyzed and …
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Socially Defined "PMS"
… included 47 college students recruited from Freshman English classes at a small university in the Midwestern United States. Thirty female and 17 male participants were primarily Caucasian (43), single (36), and heterosexual (45). Each participant completed an in-class essay, an adjective …
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A study of the relationship between instructor self-concept and instructor written comments on student essays as a function of grading
… twenty graduate students who were instructors of freshman English classes at a Midwest university. The names of instructors were supplied to the researcher by the English Department. Thirty names were selected from the list and a letter was sent to each of the possible subjects asking for their …
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Nonfiction and Fiction: Does Genre Influence Reader Response?
… "The Exit" and presented the writing to three freshman English classes, first as nonfiction and then during the next class period as fiction. I chose to follow Rosenblatt's class procedure: an initial reading with free responses, an interchange of ideas, and then a rereading of the same text. …
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A Structural Equation Model of the Influence of Personal, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on the Writing Performance of First-year Students at a Selected Michigan Community College
… was conducted among the 233 students enrolled in English Composition on the two campuses of a small two-year college in Michigan. The final sample consisted of 125 participants enrolled in 14 sections of a first-semester Freshman English course. Instrumentation for this study consisted of three …
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Beneath the Surface
Beneath the Surface is a collection of seven individual literary nonfiction essays. Five of the essays are personal essays, and three come from the author's contribution to UNO's Katrina Narrative Project. The collection represents the author's cumulative body of work upon completion of her MFA in …
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Imitation and Adaptability in the First-Year Composition Classroom: A Pedagogical Study
… in the activities of a single semester of English 1105, the first course in Virginia Tech's First Year Writing Program will be the dominant component of the project; it will be supplemented by a review of literature and a contextual discussion of what Stephen M. North calls the …