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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"teaching literature"”.
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Investigating teachers’ lived experiences in teaching Literature in English in Ghana
… the professional experiences of a group of Literature in English secondary school teachers in Ghanaian schools. At the secondary level, LiE is an elective (optional) subject, and so we could expect that those choosing it would probably do well. However, this thesis investigation arose from a …
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Art as argument: A rhetorical approach to teaching literature and painting
… conflicts about content and pedagogy in the literature and art curriculum, will promote critical thinking skills in students, and should encourage a more serious public attitude toward the arts. Chapter 1 examines American practices of teaching literature and art over the last century. …
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Rhetorical Model: An Aid for Clarifying Literary Terms and for Teaching Literature
When he first begins to study literature, a student confronts a mass of terms. Some will sound familiar to him, others will sound completely foreign. Of course, this experience is not limited to literature courses and studies. Throughout school the student will confront new terms in science, …
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Conceptualizing Literature Pedagogy: World, Global, and Cosmopolitan Orientations to Teaching Literature in English
… of the literary text, research on approaches to teaching literature that shape the interpretation and reception of the text is insufficient. My overarching aim in this study is to conceptualize literature pedagogy across the historical evolution of the field of literature in English. Underlying …
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The democratic vision of teaching literature: preschool bilingual children's reading of literature with social justice
… of previous studies about children’s literature, there is still a startling lack of knowledge about how children’s literature that deals with racial/cultural diversity can be incorporated into preschool and bilingual children’s classrooms. In order to address this gap in the research, …
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Structural Patterns and Principles of Design: An Archetypal Analysis of Four Selected Literary Works and Implications for Teaching Literature in the Secondary Schools
… in the secondary schools. The criticism and teaching of literature has been based on the work or its relationship to the world, the author, or the reader. Literary meaning is often sought outside the work itself. Close explication of discrete works is important at times, but it does not add …
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Multimedia approaches to teaching literature : a study of the use of hypermedia in the teaching of English as a non-native literature in a number of Indian universities
This thesis examines different facets of teaching non-native English literature to Indian students through the application of hypermedia. The main research question of the present thesis was 'Can hypermedia perform the dual purpose of ascertaining context and provide an approach for teaching …
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AN EVALUATION OF EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE TEACHING OF LITERATURE; ANOTHER YEAR’S EXPERIMENT IN THE ELEVENTH GRADE
… debated the two prevailing methods of teaching literature: intensive and extensive. Nancy Coryell’s famous 1927 study titled “An Evaluation of Extensive and Intensive Teaching of Literature; A Year’s Experiment in Eleventh Grade” is considered the first major English education study, …
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The Inclusion of Media Literacy in the English Curriculum
… in the teacher’s traditional ways of teaching literature. Educators need to be aware of this and adapt the 21st century skills of Media Literacy into the English curriculum in order to support success in the digital, modern, world. However, educators lack the knowledge about Media …
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Teaching Reluctant Learners
… to learn. The emphasis of the work is on teaching effectiveness which I tie to the specific beliefs of teachers, and to how these beliefs encourage reluctant student motivation and engagement. This study is built upon several rational concepts. First, the classroom teacher can and does …
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Educational development for online teaching
… study that explores the impact on educators’ teaching practices, particularly their assumptions and beliefs about teaching and self-efficacy, as a result of their participation in an educational development programme designed to prepare college educators to develop and teach online and hybrid …
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Teacher Beliefs and the Instructional Practices of National Board Certified High School English Teachers.
… was found between gender and approach to teaching literature. The study also found that reading instruction dominated the classroom instruction of those teachers, with writing instruction a distant second. In addition, those NBCTs were found to be teachers who developed positive …
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Factors in expository preaching that influence attention, comprehension and retention levels
… with a better understanding of multi-sensory teaching and advanced multi-sensory teaching and their influence on the cognitive domain. Specifically, this experiment seeks to determine if the use of multi-sensory teaching models could improve the impact of expository teaching in the cognitive …
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The Need For Revision: Curriculum, Literature, and the 21st Century
… in high school education, needs revision, that literature is the place to start that revision, and that literature class itself needs to be revised to incorporate a much broader understanding of the texts to be studied so that such work might take place there. This dissertation also recognizes …
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DEVELOPING WRITING STRATEGIES FOR LITERATURE AS AN O" LEVEL SUBJECT"
… of the "O" Level Examiners’ Reports for Literature for the years 1990 to 1992 reveals that many students at the upper secondary level are still weak in literary reading and responding. The Reports seem to indicate that literature students have literal-comprehension skills while they lack …
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The Effects of Choice on Student Reading Motivation
… support the use of a choice centered approach to teaching literature in the secondary English classroom.
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Are Deep Approaches To Learning Possible In Vocational Degree Courses In Construction?: A Phenomenological Inquiry
… 1997b; Webb, 1997db). Despite this the literature on approaches to studying, and the more recent literature on approaches to teaching, have remained, largely, detached from mainstream learning theories until Marton and Booth (1997) sequestered the approaches literature into their …
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