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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Teaching writing"”.
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The Art in Teaching Writing
… of the study was to determine how exceptional writing teachers utilize visual images in their teaching of writing. Specifically, the researcher was interested to discover how drawing might be used as a learning tool in the various stages of the writing process. Nine elementary teachers - …
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Teaching Writing: Exemplary Teachers Describe their Instruction
… 11th grade English teachers described their writing instruction. The seven teacher participants were selected for the study after receiving a "highly effective" evaluation and being identified by their principal, an assistant principal, and a department leader as being exemplary teachers of …
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Evoking Visual Imagination in Teaching Writing: ESL Students' Perspectives
… and ESL (English as a Second Language) writing performance. It was designed as a onesemester case study of two groups: high-intermediate and intermediate ESL writers, using a series of pre-writing activities designed to stimulate visual imagination. As an investigation of imagination …
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Arabic writing for occupational purposes (AWOP): strategies of teaching writing
This thesis is concerned with the Teaching of Arabic Writing for Occupational Purposes (TAWOP). Its main purpose is to develop an effective and practical approach to TAWOP in the context of Kuwait. Three research instruments were employed: questionnaire, observation and interviews. A structured …
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The Reader on My Shoulder: Teaching Writing through Audience Awareness
Curriculum and instruction.
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Writing to think: a pilot program teaching writing to United States Army War College Fellows
… setting. In response to weaknesses in Fellow writing and in an effort to better understand policy implementation, the author developed and executed a writing course as pilot program to explore a strategy for improving Fellow writing. At the beginning of the fall 2015 semester, the University …
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Teaching Writing for Students with Learning Disabilities in an Inclusive Classroom Setting: A Curriculum Development Project
… with learning disabilities often struggle with writing. They lack the appropriate strategies to use while writing, which leaves them frustrated and unwilling to continue writing. Teachers need to find strategies that will help their students become more engaged and excited about their writing. …
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GIVING STUDENTS THE REINS: TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SERVICE-LEARNING'S POTENTIAL AS A PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHING WRITING
… service-learning is an effective pedagogy for writing, whether students should be designing their own projects, and what writing instructors could do to facilitate students' growth as writers while completing projects in the community. This is a qualitative case study, incorporating …
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The Use of English as a Second Language Techniques in Teaching Writing in Open Admission Colleges
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in and Beyond the Writing Classroom: Teaching Writing through Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Methods
… like Students' Right to Their Own Language in writing and composition studies gets taken up in writing pedagogies. The project includes research into Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) pedagogies as well. DEI practices were researched in three separate case studies: one in first-year writing …
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Teaching Writing with the Digital Feedback Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Intervention to Increase Elementary Student Writing Motivation
<p>Writing is a complex task, especially for elementary school writers; motivation in writing leads to greater writing performance and writing quality. Teachers enter their careers underprepared to teach writing and have to seek out professional development on writing for themselves. Technology can …
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Pedagogical content knowledge in teaching writing: The Case of Certified and Non-certified Junior Secondary School English Teachers in Banyumas Regency
This thesis investigates the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) at the Indonesian junior secondary school level. Drawing on the notion of Shulman’s (1987) concept of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), it examines teacher knowledge of curriculum, content, students and pedagogy in …
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Continuous assessment within the writing curriculum : a classroom-based study of an alternative methodology for teaching writing in a second language context
… of alternative assessment practices on the writings of seven learners in a Grade 11 English second language class. Conventional assessment practices are inadequate when set against new knowledge of the role played by assessment in supporting learning and teaching. Presently writing and …
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Do Students in the Fifth-Grade Benefit from the Writing Workshop with Regard to their Scores on the New York State Fifth-Grade Writing Test?
… being used in classrooms today with regards to teaching writing. A traditional approach to teaching writing might include using a grammar textbook and/or a workbook. A holistic approach to teaching writing believes that students learn to write by writing. Students move through the entire writing …
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Thinking outside the Toolbox: A Teaching Resource for Vocational Writing
… elements of contextualization, professional writing, and process pedagogy to create a course design for teaching writing in the technical college/vocational school setting. With this course design, students are asked to complete a variety of scenario-driven, workplace-related writing tasks …
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Teaching not knowing: Reflections on a writing practice
… M. Murray (1994) proposes that the practice of teaching composition engages us in a process of "teaching not knowing." In this inquiry, I draw from theories in composition, psychology, epistemology, ethics, and communication to portray and describe this practice in my high school classroom. …
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Academic writing in English and Chinese : case studies of senior college students
… case study of English and Chinese academic writing with respect to the use of composing strategies, the patterns of written discourse organization, and questionnaire responses regarding educational background and attitudes toward writing.The subjects were eighteen traditional senior college …
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An Examination of Teachers' Writing Self-Efficacy, First-Grade Students' Attitudes and Self-Efficacy in Writing, and Students' Writing Behaviors
… little is known about how teachers think about writing, particularly as it relates to their writing instruction and to writing tasks they assign to their young students. The purpose of this multiple methods inquiry was to explore teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and orientations about writing and …
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