RSSVolume 44

Reading Between the Lines of Enquiry: Introducing First-Year ESL University Students to Scholarship through Literacy Skills Development

Reading Between the Lines of Enquiry: Introducing First-Year ESL University Students to Scholarship through Literacy Skills Development

| May 1, 2010

Scholarship may usefully be defined as referring to the professional standards that academics apply in their work, such as rigorous attention to detail, critical thinking, ensuring that all assertions may be substantiated and documenting sources.

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Towards Self-Expression in L2 Classrooms: The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Story Structures on EFL learners’ Narrative Ability

Towards Self-Expression in L2 Classrooms: The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Story Structures on EFL learners’ Narrative Ability

| May 1, 2010

Retelling stories, as an instance of guided speaking, can be an effective strategy to enhance learners‘ communicative output and class participation. In many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classes, however, this effective strategy is rarely exploited to its full potential, and the usual performance on the part of students is hardly anything better than a partially memorized impersonal report.

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