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Implementing Fluency First Activities In An Intermediate-Level Eap Reading Class, Martha Iancu
Implementing Fluency First Activities In An Intermediate-Level Eap Reading Class, Martha Iancu
Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies
The goal of the intermediate level in our postsecondary intensive English program at George Fox University—a small, liberal arts university in the United States—is to introduce academic language skills to students whose institutional Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores range from 400 to 450. After using an analytical, skills-based approach for a number of years, I felt dissatisfied with the students’ level of learning. Seeking a solution, I came across an on-line discussion1 of teachers who postulate that students cannot benefit fully from instruction in higher order skills unless they have first developed basic fluency. The first …
Why Do We Do The Things We Do? Questions To Be Asked By Follower Of Jesus, David M. Johnstone
Why Do We Do The Things We Do? Questions To Be Asked By Follower Of Jesus, David M. Johnstone
Publications from Student Life & Spiritual Life
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The Secret Life Of Christian Teens, Jocelyn Badley, Ken Badley
The Secret Life Of Christian Teens, Jocelyn Badley, Ken Badley
Faculty Publications - College of Education
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Indoctrination And Assimilation In Plural Settings, Ken Badley
Indoctrination And Assimilation In Plural Settings, Ken Badley
Faculty Publications - College of Education
"A twofold problem faces Canadian education. The first fold involves the indoctrination debate, still unsettled after several decades, yet still bearing decisively on educational policy. The second fold involves the changing Canadian educational landscape, now obviously characterized by increasing cultural, religious, and linguistic plurality. This plurality manifests itself in tribalism and in regular conflicts about normativity in the public square. In the midst of this plurality, many Canadian parents of school-aged children believe that courts, provincial governments, and educational authorities deny them educational justice by determining that their own religion cannot inform what their children learn in schools. Yet, from …
Review Of James Tunstead Burtchaell's The Dying Of The Light: The Disengagement Of Colleges And Universities From Their Christian Churches, Ken Badley
Faculty Publications - College of Education
The thesis that colleges founded by churches eventually cut the cord and drift into secularity is no longer news in discussions of American higher education. And for that reason, one would hardly expect to enjoy yet another repetition of the thesis, especially one running over 800 pages. But James Burtchaell combines careful scholarship in primary sources such as faculty minutes and institutional histories with unpretentious, witty writing to present a highly readable treatment of the old theme. Many books that follow this thesis focus on the mass exodus of Protestant colleges from their churches in the second half of the …
Review Of Maria Harris & Gabriel Moran's Reshaping Religious Education: Conversations On Contemporary Practice, Ken Badley
Faculty Publications - College of Education
Christian educators around the world, especially those who work in congregational settings, will recognise the names of Maria Harris and Gabriel Moran. This couple is a team both in and out of the classroom, and Reshaping Religious Education: Conversations on Contemporary Practice is their comment on the changes they have observed in religious education throughout four decades of their own work in the field in the North American context. They describe several features of current religious education, and explore directions for future religious education needs.