Knowing and writing school history : the language of students' expository writing and teachers' expectations

Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own discipline-specific challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse. History uses language is specia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author De Oliveira, Luciana C.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
Subjects
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching (Secondary)
Exposition (Rhetoric) > Study and teaching (Secondary)
Historiography > Study and teaching (Secondary)
Education > Administration > Elementary & Secondary.
Teaching skills and techniques.
Educational administration and organization.
Primary and middle schools.
Secondary schools.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616664
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-338-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 152 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Teaching, learning, and writing school history
  • History teachers' challenges and reported practices using and teaching writing
  • Student writing in history
  • Student writing in history
  • Conclusions and implications
  • Questionnaire
  • Interview 1 questions
  • Interview 2 questions
  • References.

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