ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] Dear readers, We are extremely happy to present the third issue of the ELTWeekly newsletter. Do share the contents of this newsletter with your colleagues. Here you go: Research Paper: ‘The Power of Story in the ESL Classroom’ by Bonnie J. Nicholas, Marian J. Rossiter & Marilyn… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3

Research Paper: ‘The Power of Story in the ESL Classroom’ by Bonnie J. Nicholas, Marian J. Rossiter & Marilyn L. Abbott

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] Although considerable research has examined the use of literature in the second language (L2) classroom, there has been less investigation into the integration of learners’ personal stories in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Following Wajnryb’s (2003) categorizations of story as language learning, genre, and… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘The Power of Story in the ESL Classroom’ by Bonnie J. Nicholas, Marian J. Rossiter & Marilyn L. Abbott

Research Paper: ‘The Reliability of the OWLS Written Expression Scale with ESL Kindergarten Students’by Gina L. Harrison, Keira C. Ogle & Megan Keilty

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014] A reliability analysis was conducted on the Written Expression Scale from the Oral and Written Language Scales, (OWLS, Carrow-Woolfolk, 1996), with 68 ESL and 56 non-ESL kindergarten students. Interrater and internal consistency estimates for the Written Expression Scale were examined separately for each language group. Despite lower… Continue reading Research Paper: ‘The Reliability of the OWLS Written Expression Scale with ESL Kindergarten Students’by Gina L. Harrison, Keira C. Ogle & Megan Keilty