Writing skills at secondary level. Developing an English language writing syllabus - a case study

Trabalho de projecto apresentado para o cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de mestre em Didática do Inglês

Developing writing skills in English language teaching through the use of blogs and e-mail at primary school level

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language

Adapting the Process Writing Approach to English Language Learners with Special Needs: Using Visuals

The available literature on the writing characteristics and best practices to teach writing to English Language Learners who also present some disability is scarce. In order to understand and provide some insight on the developments in this field, I propose an adaptation of the Process Writing Approach based on a literature review of the existing bibliography about the writing characteristics of English Language Learners, Special Needs Learners, and English Language Learners with Special Needs’ writing, the effects of the Process Writing Approach in teaching writing to these groups, and the use of visuals in writing instruction. The main assumptions of this study are: a) The Process Writing Approach provides an opportunity to differentiate instruction to ELLs with special needs and gives them additional opportunities to bring their funds of knowledge to the classroom, improving their writing, and b) By allowing students to rely on visuals in different phases of the writing process teachers will be addressing the needs of both visual and verbal learners, therefore allowing students more options to develop writing skills. The main pedagogical implication is that by dividing writing in recursive stages and inserting visuals as scaffolding throughout the entire writing process, teachers will provide an alternative approach to writing instruction that may be more effective to English Language Learners with Special Needs.

Academic and professional writing in English : a study in the pedagogy of second language writing for Spanish university students.

Abarcar la enseñanza de la redacción en inglés como segunda lengua para fines académicos y profesionales en la universidad española. En primer lugar, se establece un marco teórico para la pedagogía de la redacción a base del entendimiento del texto escrito como nexo en una red compleja de relaciones sociales y negociaciones culturales. Luego se lleva a cabo un estudio de la práctica de la redacción en el contexto de la universidad española, con un análisis a fondo de los escritores y sus actitudes y expectativas, por un lado, y sus textos (un ensayo y un informe), por otro. Se analizan los textos usando técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas. A partir de este estudio inicial, se diseña un proyecto de investigación-acción, en el que dos grupos paralelos de alumnos siguen dos programas diferentes en que se plasman dos aproximaciones distintas a la pedagogía de la redacción: el análisis textual, siguiendo la tradición del inglés para fines específicos y la escuela del género, y el análisis contextual, influenciado por los planteamientos y los procedimientos de la nueva retórica. Los textos resultantes son analizados mediante unas escalas detalladas de evaluación desarrolladas a base de los resultados del primer estudio. Los resultados de los dos programas son positivos, aunque el grupo de análisis contextual demuestra una mejora superior. Para concluir, se esboza una serie de principios que deberán servir de guía para el diseño de los futuros programas de redacción para universitarios españoles.

AQA GCSE English Language Unit 3 student workbook: Understanding Spoken and Written Texts and Writing Creatively.

Las dos principales secciones de este cuaderno de ejercicios están diseñadas para ayudar a los estudiantes a adquirir experiencia para el AQA examen de Literatura Inglesa de enseñanza secundaria y así conseguir el GCSE (Certificado General de Educación Secundaria). El cuadernillo contiene material y ejercicios que tienen por objeto mejorar el nivel de habilidades de los estudiantes. Los temas del cuadernillo son: comprensión de textos escritos (escribir ensayos sobre los textos en prosa, caracterización y voz, aspectos de género y forma, muestras: Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, poemas de Emily Dickinson, el soneto 18 de William Shakespeare), la producción de textos creativos (escritura creativa), el estudio del lenguaje hablado.

The art of writing & speaking the English language

"Revised edition."

Munson's system of practical phonography. The dictionary of practical phonography, giving the best phonographic forms for the words of the English language (sixty thousand), and for over five thousand proper names; also illustrating the principles of phrase-writing ...

Re-issue of the edition of 1875, with a new title-page.

Faulty diction as corrected by the Funk & Wagnalls new Standard dictionary of the English language; a brief statement of the general principles determining correctness in English speech and writing, with their application to some of the more common instances of violation and to some of the mooted questions regarding usage.

Mode of access: Internet.

A manual of phonography, or, Writing by sound : a natural method of writing by signs that represent the sounds of language, and adapted to the English language as a complete system of phonetic shorthand /

Mode of access: Internet.

A grammar of the English language in a series of letters : intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general; but more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys. To which are added six lessons, intended to prevent statesmen from using false grammar and from writing in an awkward manner.

Mode of access: Internet.

The elements of Anglo-Saxon grammar : with copious notes illustrating the structure of the Saxon and the formation of the English language : and a grammatical praxis with a literal English version : to which are prefixed, remarks on the history and use of the Anglo-Saxon, and an introduction, on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing, with critical remarks /

Includes texts in Anglo-Saxon with parallel English translations.

A complete guide to the art of writing short-hand : being an entirely new and comprehensive system of representing the elementary sounds of the English language in stenographic characters /

Mode of access: Internet.

Many mistakes mended; containing two thousand five hundred corrections in speaking, pronouncing, and writing the English language ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Munson's system of phonography : the dictionary of practical phonography, giving the best phonographic forms for the words of the English language (sixty thousand), and for over five thousand proper names; also illustrating the principles of phrase-writing.

Mode of access: Internet.

A grammar of the English language in a series of letters. Intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general ; but more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys. To which are added six lessons intended to prevent statesmen from using false grammar and from writing in an awkward manner.

Title on spine: Cobbett's grammar.