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teaching academic writing  
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martoma -17 December, 2008 - 07:22
If you were to teach an academic writing class for language learners who are planning to study in American or British universities, what would be your top 5 classroom teaching priorities?
Defending my blogging assignment  
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Each semester my students create their own blogs around the theme “We must be the change we wish to see in the world”. I use this activity as part of my digital citizenship unit.  I want the students to experience what it means to be a digital citizen in an authentic manner. Read more
Student Showcase  
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dottuta -14 November, 2008 - 08:02

Teachers and students from around the world show their work in this blog:

http://esleflstudents.edublogs.org/. 

Authentic use of English language  
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MarniJamil -30 October, 2008 - 11:24
Last week was the final week of the semester in 2008.
Email writing  
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This lesson aims to teach or revise the rules of writing emails in English by studying the differences between formal letters, and informal and semi-formal emails.

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Understanding the Net Generation's Texts  
Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors... Read more >>
PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES AND PERCEIVED LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS IN EFL WRITING CLASSES  
This study employs a naturalistic classroom-based approach to explore the interaction between how an AWE program, MY Access!, was implemented in three different ways in three EFL college writing classes in Taiwan and how students perceived its effectiveness in improving writing... Read more >>
THE INFLUENCE OF CORPUS TECHNOLOGY ON L2 ACADEMIC WRITING  
This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the changes in students’ writing process associated with corpus use over an extended period of time. The primary purpose of this study was to examine how corpus technology affects students’ development of competence as second language (L2) writers... Read more >>
Early-years writing lessons 'do no good'  
Teaching children as young as three to write short sentences and use punctuation has little effect on their literacy skills later on, according to research which raises new questions about the government's plan for a curriculum for the under-fives... Read more >>
Using document management software in education  
Document management software is used to track and store electronic documents and images of paper documents. This software can be used by administrators, teachers and other educators to ensure that they keep their work organised and to facilitate rapid retrieval of useful documents and resources... Read more>>
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