Browsing by Subject "Education, Language and Literature."
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7th grade Chinese students' reading motivation in Taiwan.
(2007)This dissertation study investigated seventh-grade Chinese students' reading motivation in Taiwan. The mix-method triangulation research design was employed to find answers to the study's questions. A total of 247 seventh-grade ... -
An analysis of talk in four first-year composition cooperative learning groups.
(2001)This dissertation considers the question, "in what ways do students in cooperative learning groups in First-Year Composition courses create social contexts that allow positive, constructive criticism to take place?" Social ... -
Are we speaking the same language: Exploring meaning construction in a first-year composition classroom.
(1997)Data revealed that disjunctions occurred between the teacher's intentions for making the assignments and the students interpretations of the assignments on some level with all three essays. Data analysis also indicated ... -
Chasing the shadow: A heuristic look at reader-response.
(2006)What is the experience of reader-response from the learner's and teachers' perspectives? The purpose of the research reported here was to explore the students' and teachers' perspectives regarding literature and the ... -
A content analysis of professional journal articles pertaining to composition from January 1969 through September 1982 and a related annotated bibliography.
(1983)The journals published by the National Council of Teachers of English contained a majority of published articles; therefore, those articles included in the annotated bibliography were from these sources. This author concluded ... -
Cool Books for Tough Guys
(1994)Subtitle: 50 Books Out of the Mainstream of Adolescent Literature That Will Appeal to Males Who Do Not Enjoy Reading -
Emerging voices of undergraduate writers: A study of the phenomenon of writing changes during the college years.
(2007)College faculty can support the growth of undergraduate writers by establishing a learning community focused on learning as motivation. Conferences that provide specific, concrete suggestions, as well as leading questions, ... -
Employed, rural high school seniors, mandatory attendance, and senior English: A phenomenological exploration.
(2007)This phenomenological study examines the lived experiences of seven employed high school seniors to explore the research question: How do rural, employed high school seniors approach learning in English, their only required ... -
English/language arts teachers' emotional responses to difference: A feminist poststructural analysis.
(2007)Although the population in public schools within the United States continues to reflect a more diverse student body, the majority of preservice and inservice teachers are white, middle class women (McFalls & Cobb-Roberts, ... -
An examination of computer-mediated communication's scholarly communication.
(1999)This dissertation asks "what is meant by computer-mediated communication?" CMC was defined as it exists in the scholarly communication concerning business, education, psychology, sociology, and social sciences. This ... -
An experiment comparing traditional instruction in college freshman composition with instruction employing learning cycles based on Piagetian theories.
(1981)The control group was taught the modes primarily by lecture with textbooks, and the students wrote nine or ten papers. Both experimental and control groups wrote pre- and posttest essays which were graded holistically. The ... -
From Cave Art to Cryonics
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Indonesian Student Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in Teaching L2 Reading
(2014-05-09)Abstract Student teachers’ beliefs in Indonesian contexts are rarely explored. The aims of this case study are to answer the following questions: 1) What are Indonesian student teachers’ beliefs about teaching L2 reading?, ... -
The influence of concept mapping on achievement, self-regulation, and self-efficacy in students of English as a second language.
(2001)This study investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping used as a learning strategy with students in English as a Second Language classrooms. Seventy-nine ESL students participated in the study. Variables of interest ... -
The influence of using cognitive strategy instruction through writing rubrics on high school students' writing self-efficacy, achievement goal orientation, perceptions of classroom goal structures, self-regulation, and writing achievement.
(2003)To determine benefits of cognitive strategy instruction when using writing rubrics, 164 students from a large suburban high school in the Southwest United States wrote three essays and completed pre- and post-measures ... -
The [Integrated] Art of Teaching: Early Career Teachers' Perceptions of Integrated Arts Practices and their Creative Self-Efficacy
(2019-05-10)From teacher preparation programs, preservice and novice teachers understand the expectations and their responsibility to prepare secondary students for tests required for postsecondary opportunities. But often forgotten ... -
Intertextuality and the social construction of meaning.
(2006)The purpose of this study was to examine intertextual links made by second grade students during a variety of reading experiences and how they create meaning through those links. The guiding questions for the study are: ... -
Language and Bodily Autonomy in Chicano Movement Periodicals, 1967-1973
(2019-12-13)Periodicals were a primary organizing tool of Chicano Movement activists from 1967-1973, serving as spaces for multilingual representation and dialogue in Mexican American communities. This thesis argues that by publishing ... -
Language arts in American middle schools, 1980-83 :
(1984)It was noted that many of the items of interest to middle school language arts educators were presented and published in sources not readily available for these teachers.