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50 Years of ERIC
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From EFL to English as an International and Scientific Language: Analysing Taiwan's High-School English Textbooks in the Period 1952-2009
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Ke, I-Chung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
Using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of Taiwan's high-school English textbooks, this study aimed to investigate the projected roles of English in Taiwan's high-school English textbooks over the past 50 years. A total of 1072 lessons from 14 textbook versions dating from 1952 to 2009 were analysed. The results show that the…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
Students' Attitudes to the Secondary French Immersion Curriculum in a Canadian Context
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Makropoulos, Josee – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
This paper makes a contribution to the field of French immersion studies by examining student attitudes towards the secondary French immersion curriculum. Some of the students had made the decision to stay engaged with the programme while others had become disengaged from it. Drawing on the results of interviews with 23 students in a high school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
English Articles and Modals in the Writing of Some Botswana Students
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Alimi, Modupe M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2007
What syntactic patterns emerge in students' use of articles and modals? What are the reasons for these patterns? What implications do the findings of the study have for English language instruction in Botswana? Exactly 1556 essays comprising class assignments, written seminar presentations, test papers and examination scripts from 514 randomly…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Writing (Composition), Assignments
English Class or Speaking about Everything Class? Dialogue Journal Writing as a Critical EFL Literacy Practice in an Iranian High School
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Ghahremani-Ghajar, Sue-san; Mirhosseini, Seyyed Abdolhamid – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2005
This qualitative study, employing an ethnographic research method, investigates how dialogue journal writing, which allows teachers and learners to engage in "written conversation", may provide an opportunity to bring critical pedagogy and foreign language education together in a productive way in the context of a critical literacy practice. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Journal Writing, English (Second Language), Diaries