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Lee, Klaudia Hiu Yen – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
Life writing is frequently considered as a private act of composition and reflection. What are the benefits and challenges if students are asked to participate in a collaborative life-writing project that aims to capture, explore, and reflect upon the relationship between personal life history, memory and place? In this essay, I will demonstrate…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Student Projects, Learner Engagement
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Gilbert, Francis – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This article examines the deeper purposes behind the teaching of creative writing. To extend an analogy created by William Blake in his poem 'The Tyger', its furnaces are examined and its 'deadly terrors' clasped. It re-interprets the different views of teaching English, as drawn up in the United Kingdom's Cox Report. It argues that these views…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Liu, Qing; Zhou, Xiaodi; Fu, Danling – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
This article presents two separate but related studies on native-English speaking (NES) instructors' teaching writing practice in Chinese universities. One study is a case study that explores the teaching practice of three NES instructors' writing instruction in a southern Chinese university as well as students' responses to their practice.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Instruction, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Ai, Bin – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
Writing is often a massive challenge for the learners who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Many EFL practitioners are searching for solutions to help learners improve the level of their writing. In this auto-ethnographic study, two narratives are discussed. In the first narrative, the primary challenges of EFL writing encountered by a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
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Verzella, Massimo; Tommaso, Laura – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
The international project described in this paper has been inspired by the Trans-Atlantic and Pacific Projects (TAPP). By 2013, the TAPP network had connected classes in writing, usability testing and/or translation at three universities in the US and several partner universities in Europe, Africa and China. The pedagogical import of these forms…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Teamwork, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Icy – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
In second-language writing, assessment has traditionally focused on the written products and how well (or badly) students perform in writing. Teachers dominate the assessment process as testers, while students remain passive testees. Assessment is something teachers "do to" rather than '"with" students, mainly for…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Humphris, Rebecca – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
Revision is recognised as a key and complex element of the writing process. Despite this, research shows that students find it difficult effectively to revise their own writing due to a lack of metacognitive awareness and understanding of the processes they undertake when writing. The first part of this inquiry studies nine students' understanding…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods, Protocol Analysis