Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 30, No. 1, September 2002

Table of Contents

• Welcoming Grammar Back into the Writing Classroom

  Bonnie Devet

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  Abstract: This article describes three approaches with which grammar may be welcomed back into the composition classroom.

  Keywords: College

• Expanding the Discourse through Journals

  Gregory Shafer

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  Abstract: Journals can be effective in cultivating formal discourse while respecting cultural differences.

  Keywords: College

• Obasan: More than One Telling/ More than One Reading

  Mary Ellen Byrne

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  Abstract: In her 1981 novel Obasan, the Japanese Canadian writer Joy Kogawa recounts the saga of the internment and relocation of Japanese Canadians during and after the Second World War by juxtaposing the "factual" historic telling against the personal, "fictional" telling. This experimental approach opens multiple and diverse pathways to us as instructors of literature.

  Keywords: College

• Community College Research: An Ivory Tower?

  Gary Lee Sligh

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  Abstract: Should instructors in two-year colleges be involved in research? If so, how important is such research in advancing the work of community colleges in a new century?

  Keywords: College

• A Working Model of Pedagogical Triangulation: A Holistic Approach to Peer-Revision Workshops

  Carol Eades

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  Abstract: Pedagogical triangulation is a threefold method for teaching that involves a holistic approach to classroom collaboration. The specific elements of pedagogical triangulation are described, along with the results of applying this approach in a first-semester college English class.

  Keywords: College

• Understanding ESL Writers: Second Language Writing by Composition Instructors

  Sarah J. Shin

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  Abstract: Composition teachers can obtain a better understanding of the challenges facing ESL students by writing in their own second language and reflecting on the experience.

  Keywords: College

• INSTRUCTIONAL NOTE: The More Active the Better: Engaging College English Students with Active Learning Strategies

  Nancy Lawson Remler

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  Abstract: While active learning strategies enable students to grasp important concepts, they also help students become enthusiastic and confident writers and interpreters of literature.

  Keywords: College

• Beginning at the End: Encouraging Literacy by Rethinking the Developmental Model of an Oral Interpretation Course

  William P. Banks

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  Abstract: Oral interpretation courses, designed to be about communication, can serve as a site for thinking about what meanings writers communicate, as well as how interpreters become communicators in larger social discourses through interactions with written texts.

  Keywords: Literacy, Writing, College

• EDITORIAL: Starting Where Students Are, but Knowing (and Letting Them Know) Where We Want to Take Them

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  Keywords: College

• 2002 OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS IN ENGLISH AWARDS

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  Keywords: College

• WHAT WORKS FOR ME

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• REVIEWS

  Andy Anderson; Bette Brickman; Craig M. Machado; Susan M. deVeer

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  Abstract: Reviews four books: Listening Up: Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers and Students, by Rachel Martin; Disturbing the Peace, by Nancy Newman; Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability, by C. A. Bowers; Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Practice, Theory, and Research, by Liz Hamp-Lyons and William Condon.

  Keywords: College

• TYCA TO YOU

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