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This questionnaire provided an evaluation of the course and questionnaire recommendations for future courses. No specific questions about course components were asked, but there was a space for students to make comments on ways in which the course had made them more independent learners. A number of students took this as an opportunity to comment [...]
After the mid-course break, students were required to write a letter to the main teacher, talking about the independent study they had been doing in the first half of the course, and what they planned to do in the second half. There was no directive to discuss reading habits, but the majority of students included [...]
No overt attempt was made to gather qualitative data relating to students’ acceptance of the loss of teacher centered class time and a non-E AP focus for part of each lesson, primarily because the students were well aware that the class teacher was enthusiastic about the benefits of reading, and thus were likely to answer [...]
When I analysed all these narrative data I noticed that our stories seemed to levels of story reflect context at different levels. In other words, our exploration of the contexts in which we had taught, had been taught, and had observed teaching, revealed that our personal stories of these experiences interconnected with other stories, those [...]
To explore narrative inquiry in language teacher education further, beyond exemplar the literature, I had the opportunity while visiting South Africa to collaborate in an inquiry with English teachers in the context of a university postgraduate ELTcourse. I was the lecturer on the course, and its focus was on recent issues to do with language [...]
There are substantial claims made about the value of narrative inquiry for teachers in both the theoretical and empirical literature on language teacher education. These can be summarized as follows: Replica IWC Portuguese 1.Narrative inquiry is reflective inquiry. Through constructing, sharing, analysing and interpreting their teaching stories, teachers get the opportunity to reflect on their [...]
I’m fixing to go to a university and I am fixing to have some hard classes. I don’t know weather to do boxing one day a week or two days. I mean it would make it easier on me in college, but will I learn anything about boxing at all going one day a week [...]
In order to study a large number of naturally occurring instances of be fixing to and some of its reduced variants, I chose to collect tokens from internet writing. I decided to investigate internet writing for two reasons. First, given that be fixing to still occurs only rarely in traditional print, study of its usage [...]
By metaphorical extension, we might understand the clouds to have intention. Metaphorical extension is important because it is the means by which a given construction breaks from contextual constraints and comes to appear in a wider variety of contexts (Hopper & Traugott, 2003:104). Replica Jaeger LeCoultre When used with inanimate subjects however, the interpretation of [...]
It was 222 years ago that 55 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to craft the Constitution of a new nation. In November, English educators will gather in this city for the 99th NCTE Annual Convention. The City of Brotherly Love held an important place in the development of the United States. Here, today, textbook lessons about [...]