Describes how a class of technical writing students learned to create their own style guides relevant to their areas of specialty. Includes a composite style guide. (TJ)

This article reports on a genre-based needs analysis for a graduate course in English for academic purposes (EAP) at a large public U.S. university. In particular, it describes the theoretical reconceptualizations of genre analysis that the data provoked. Using ethnographic methods, an investigation of academic genres in several classrooms in…

This descriptive correlational study examined the relationships between teacher immediacy and student motivation. Specifically, verbal and nonverbal independent variables were compared with dependent traits of expectancy-value and approach-avoidance motivation. Students self-reported perceived levels of instructor immediacy and self-rated their…

Discusses a way to introduce students to idioms and figurative expressions while stimulating their interest in literature. (MB)

Discusses the difficulties and advantages of using spoken Chinese in explaining such points as vocabulary or usage to the student of literary Chinese. (FB)

Discusses rhetorical theory and how it can be applied to technical writing. (HOD)

In "Dialogic Origin," Mikhail Bakhtin -- as teacher-researcher and theorist -- presents readers with a remarkable essay on teaching grammar and style to 7th-year students (roughly equivalent to 10th graders in the U.S. educational system). In doing so, Bakhtin employs some of his most notable concepts (among them dialogism and "hero") as informing…

Suggests that the student will write with fewer inhibitions when invited "to listen to his own speaking voice in order "to capture its essence in his written compositions. (Author/RD)

While editors have no way of encoding most of the features of the human voice, they are often able to use punctuation and other devices to give the impression of speech. While retaining many distinctive features of a personal voice is possible in writing, considerations of voice are inseparable from considerations of textual features and audience…

Student writers should be encouraged to move beyond a "jargon" or "public discourse" model of writing. This can be accomplished by capitalizing on the students' knack for imitation by turning it into public parody. After being divided into small panels of three, four, or five members, students are assigned a voice and topic and asked to develop a…

Special issue devoted to the second conference on structuro-global-audio-visual methodology, at Mons, Belgium, 1971; text of a talk which formed the basis of discussion during the conference. (VM)

Several important principles of second dialect teaching are discussed and a scheme for a twelve week program in teaching English as a second dialect is presented. Part one of this article appeared in "English Language Teaching" v22 n3 May 1968. (FWB)