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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Secondary English"”.
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Multiple voices in a secondary English curriculum
… study, featuring one American high school English department, analyzed why a secondary school chose certain literature for its English curriculum. The featured school had experienced a significant demographic change and had failed to meet AYP for 7 years. This study examined why the school …
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A sociosemantic examination of secondary English teacher written feedback
… based description of teacher writing comments in secondary ELA classrooms. Based within a case study methodology, this study used analytical tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in order to discover the various meanings that teachers make through …
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The Development of The Curriculum in Secondary English to 1960
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Senior secondary English in New South Wales: Linguistic and epistemic perspectives
This thesis examines senior secondary English in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, assessing almost 80,000 students per annum via externally-set examinations, and, at the time of writing, transitioning from an old to new senior English syllabus. Previous research (e.g., Christie …
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Supporting Rural Adolescent Voices in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
… experiences of rural adolescent students in the secondary English language arts classroom as students make meaning with the content of the curriculum. This study worked with the social constructs of rurality (Azano, 2011; Azano and Biddle, 2019; Corbett, 2007; Gruenewald, 2008), critical literacy …
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Assessing Formative Assessment: An Examination of Secondary English/Language Arts Teachers' Practices
… pupils to improve student learning, occurs in a secondary English/language arts (ELA) context. A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach, using a series of weekly self-report checklists about teachers’ assessment practices and semi-structured interviews, was used to address the following: …
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Learning Experiences of Newcomer Latino Secondary English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom
Background: Thousands of Latin American secondary school-age immigrants have migrated for decades and continue to arrive to the United States amidst a complex sociopolitical national climate around immigration. Newcomer English learners (ELs) enrolled in public schools and placed in newcomer …
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Design and implementation of appreciative writing assessment in secondary English Language Arts classrooms
… purpose of this dissertation was to explore with English Language Arts (ELA) teachers how to design and implement appreciative (Bomer, 2011) approaches to writing assessment in secondary ELA classrooms. This study aimed to counter deficit (Paris, 2012; Valencia, 1997) approaches to assessment that …
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Navigating the Framework: Evaluating Program Placement for Secondary English Learners in Texas Schools
Background: English learners (ELs) are among the fastest-growing student groups in the United States, yet persistent disparities in language proficiency and academic performance remain, particularly in Texas secondary schools. Despite extensive investment in bilingual and English as a Second …
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Exploring The Past With Place: Incorporating Multimodal Archival Composition In Secondary English Education
… in teaching similar units and reshaping secondary English education into a more relevant educational experience.
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Recasting the Subject: Curriculum, equity, and the educated ideal in secondary English classrooms
… around content selection in New Zealand secondary English classrooms. The thesis critically explores how contemporary curriculum trends produce particular versions of subject English and considers the effects of these versions against social equity outcomes and the development of broader …
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A Rationale for Teaching Folklore in Secondary English Classes of Agricultural Community Schools
Educators may not understand the contribution farm work makes to the conceptual development of farm youth. When life experience is not integrated in the classroom it may be that teachers believe teaching and learning should revolve around that which is new to students and they consider prior …
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A Plato on-Line Course in Authoring: Lessons in Poetry for Secondary English
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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
… digital tools are being used in the high school English classroom but with relatively little known about how these tools can teach voice during writing instruction. This qualitative single-case study examined how a public school, ninth-grade English teacher used new literacies to develop voice in …
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"It takes a lot out of you": ethnography of secondary English teachers' writing pedagogy
This study was conducted in two case-study teachers’ public middle school classrooms in south Louisiana and a survey in three public school districts. A qualitative research focus with the research design taken from work of Michael Patton’s (2002) Qualitative Research Evaluation Methods and James …
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Teachers’ constructions of creativity in secondary English: who gets to be creative in class?
This thesis examines English teachers’ constructions of creativity in three different schools. The investigation is of interest because of the importance given to creativity by English teachers and the contested, shifting role it plays in English teaching and education as a whole. It differs from …
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Secondary English as a Foreign Language Teachers and Teaching: Cultural Practices, Products, and Perspectives
<p>Learning English is a global phenomenon, if not a necessity, for economic and political reasons in the world today. However, effective instruction of English as a foreign language (EFL) has differing views on how culture and language should be taught. Developed by the author, the study uses the …
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Knowledge-management : an analysis of change in New South Wales secondary English curricula, 1962-1972
… of curriculum change in New South Wales Secondary Schools, attempts to contribute to our understanding of what knowledge is transmitted and of changes taking place by (1) comparing the curricular ideology of the most recent English to the previous one. (2) exploring the social location of …
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Knowledge-management : an analysis of change in New South Wales secondary English curricula, 1962-1972
… of curriculum change in New South Wales Secondary Schools, attempts to contribute to our understanding of what knowledge is transmitted and of changes taking place by (1) comparing the curricular ideology of the most recent English to the previous one. (2) exploring the social location of …
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Boys Who Love Books: Avid Adolescent Male Readers in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
This study was designed to explore perceptions and lived experiences of avid adolescent male readers, in order to better understand their development as readers. This study explored: (1) how previous reading experiences influence the development of the avid adolescent male reader and (2) how the …
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