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Denne-Bolton, Sara – English Teaching Forum, 2013
Using dialogue journals gives English language learners valuable writing practice. This article explores topics such as audience, fluency, teacher-student relationships, empowerment, and making the connection to academic writing. And the author gives practical advice on how teachers can institute dialogue journals in their classrooms and how best…
Descriptors: Diaries, English Language Learners, Writing Instruction, Audiences
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de Oliveira, L. C.; Lan, S-W. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2012
This article explores an evolving mentor-mentee relationship between a nonnative English-speaking (NNES) advisor and an NNES graduate student by providing recounts of the work in which they engaged to prepare the NNES graduate student for the demands of advanced academic literacy and for teaching in higher education in the context of a Ph.D.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mentors, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Tokuhama-Espinosa, Tracey – Praeger, 2008
Globalization is on everyone's tongue, and the discussion is not only limited to economic exchange, but expands to the intermingling of cultural values. To be truly successful in the international arena, whether as an immigrant, student, businessperson, or tourist, openness toward other cultures is vital and the most obvious door to those cultures…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Linguistics, Second Languages, Multilingualism