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i Sole, Cristina Ros – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2004
This paper uses narrative accounts to explore intercultural experiences and the perception of the self by second language (L2) users. The analysis follows poststructuralist and postmodern theories of cultural and language identity. Extracts from the autobiographies of three chicano writers from the 1980s to the new millennium, Richard Rodriguez's…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Language Role, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs
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Dyer, Brenda; Friederich, Lee – Written Communication, 2002
The article explores the purpose and methods of teaching the personal narrative in foreign language classrooms. Following a cross-cultural comparison of the history, purpose, and form of autobiography in first-language contexts in the United States and Japan; a review of the place of personal narrative in second- and foreign-language composition…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Cross Cultural Studies, Textbooks, Second Language Instruction
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Barnes, Charline J. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2006
A teacher education program designed to adequately prepare preservice teachers to instruct culturally and linguistically diverse students in their classrooms is described. Under the supervision of a professor and a graduate assistant in a required methods course at a private midwestern Christian university, 24 preservice teachers, who use a…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Preservice Teacher Education, Discussion Groups, Teacher Education Programs
Johnston, Basil H. – 1989
This autobiography relates the experiences of a young Ojibway boy who was taken from his family in 1939 at age 10 and placed in a Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario, Canada. St. Peter Claver (later Garnier) or "Spanish," as the Indian school was known, was home to approximately 135 boys. Most of the students, who ranged in age…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Autobiographies, Boarding Schools
Wang, Li-Wei – 1992
As part of an effort to learn from reflecting on personal history and autobiographical writing and analysis, this paper shares one teacher educator's experiences in learning to teach. The process of learning to teach a field experience course for elementary school teacher candidates at a teachers' junior college in Taiwan is described. The…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries
Zulich, Jan; And Others – 1991
This study was conducted in order to examine programmatic and personal dimensions that interact to shape a future teacher's beliefs and practices. The study charted stages of preservice teacher development through dialogue journal case study analysis of eight students representing divergent academic disciplines and cultural biographies. The…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism
Jensen, Marvin D. – 1985
Noting that the study of intrapersonal communication (inner speech) is increasingly recognized as an integral part of communication education, this paper argues that introspective writing, such as memoirs and personal journals, can be studied in communication classes for the confirmation they offer of theoretical descriptions of internal…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Crow, Edith – 1983
By following the "steppingstone" or marker theory of dividing one's life into no more than 12 and no less than 8 significant periods, a student in a writing course can develop a brief response for each phase to articulate multiple experiences. Writing teachers can aid students in realizing that important life experiences are the stuff of…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Diaries
Dickerson, Mary Jane – 1988
The ability to infuse language with qualities of the human voice in the act of speaking is what distinguishes autobiography as a genre and makes it most suited to teaching students subtle features inherent in the complex act of writing. When students write from personal experience, they consciously begin to shape their identities in one direction…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Literature
Robinson, Paul – 1980
Designed to show that native authorship is flourishing, that excellent books by non-native writers are available, and that many small and a few large companies publish these works, this bibliography of more than 200 fiction and non-fiction listings written between 1966 and 1979 contains: (1) non-fiction and fiction books and materials by native…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Anthologies
Boegeman, Margaret Byrd – 1978
In order to minimize the dread which students and teachers alike often feel toward freshman composition courses, it is important to involve students in reading and writing assignments which are of interest and importance to them. Autobiography, as a subject for study and a focus for writing, can be a great motivator and an expediter of the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Course Content
Stineman, Esther; Loeb, Catherine, Comp. – 1979
This annotated bibliography identifies a core collection of over 1,700 books and periodicals that will support a women's studies undergraduate program. Although older materials appear frequently in the bibliography, the main emphasis is on works published since 1970. Books are grouped into 21 subject areas including anthropology, autobiography,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anthropology, Athletics, Autobiographies
Gunn, Evelyn, Ed. – 1969
This black American literature course for grades 10-12 is designed to introduce students to the unique contribution that the black American has made to American life. The course guide is divided into four units--Slave Narrative and Autobiography, Poetry, Short Story, Drama--with suggested activites, including class discussions, small group…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black History
Senungetuk, Joseph E. – 1971
Written by an Eskimo who created all the book's art work, drawings, and illustrations, this narrative portrays the theme that prior to white contact the Eskimos had a complex, satisfying, technologically developed, and progressive culture which was immobilized, fragmented, and exploited by European invaders: hence the title--give or take a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Autobiographies, Communication Problems
Byram, Michael, Ed.; Grundy, Peter, Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers examines how the contexts in which language teaching occurs impact the aims and methods of language teaching. Ten papers focus on the following: "Introduction: Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning" (Mike Byram and Peter Grundy); "From Practice to Theory and Back Again" (Claire…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biculturalism, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness
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