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ERIC Number: EJ1104029
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1559-663X
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Using Freewriting to Make Sense of Literature
Salas, Spencer; Garson, Kyra; Khanna, Shweta; Murray, Beth
English Teaching Forum, v54 n2 p12-19 2016
In this article, the authors describe the outcomes of a workshop of pre- and in-service secondary school English teachers in New Delhi, India, working with a literature-based curriculum that required striking a balance between teaching the text or series of texts and creating opportunities for communicative interaction. The authors describe freewriting--and the sense of inquiry it generates--as a way of introducing the students to the exploratory, open-ended thinking that reading literature requires. The authors also explain freewriting about unfamiliar text as a powerful starting point for readers to make connections: text to self, text to text, and text to the world. Drawing from a robust body of writing-to-learn literature, the authors outline how freewriting and the literature curriculum works--its formats and variations--followed by a set of strategies for sharing and responding to freewriting in ways that elevate it as participatory analysis.
US Department of State. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs, SA-5, 2200 C Street NW 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20037. e-mail: etforum@state.gov; Web site: http://americanenglish.state.gov/english-teaching-forum-0
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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