Essays about: "my classroom essay"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words my classroom essay.
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1. “I’m not a Final Girl” An intersectional character analysis of Jade in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw and its pedagogical implications in the EFL classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : The following essay applies an intersectional lens to the character analysis of Jade, the main character in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021), as it aims to introduce EFL students to the principles of the intersectional theory framework. As Jade, as a way of dealing with her reality as an abused and marginalized young part-Native American adolescent, obsessively frames her real-life experiences in a slasher movie context, the novel explores the themes of identity, marginalization, empowerment through the way Jade sees herself in relation to the Final Girl: the archetypal female protagonist featured in slasher movies. READ MORE
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2. Does corrective feedback on writing lead to performance anxiety?
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Performance anxiety has been a much-discussed topic in recent years, but many questions surrounding it remain unanswered. This essay investigates how written corrective feedback affects students' performance anxiety and how students and teachers attempt respond to performance anxiety in the classroom. READ MORE
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3. Denaturalise and Challenge Heteronormativity in the EFL Classroom : A queer analysis of Nancy Garden’s Annie on My Mind and the novel’s value in the EFL classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay focuses on how heteronormativity is depicted and challenged in Nancy Garden’s Annie on My Mind, and the value of using the novel in the Swedish EFL classroom in order to deconstruct and challenge heteronormativity. The point of departure is that dominating discourses produce knowledge and information in favour of heteronormativity, which results in the oppression of other sexualities, but also that normative expectations are limited to their context. READ MORE
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4. Selection and Use of Films in Second Language Learning
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Film is a teaching resource offering great possibilities in the English language classroom. In the curriculum for the English courses at upper secondary school in Sweden (Lgy11), it is mentioned four times that film should be included when teaching English. However, most films are not produced for the purpose to educate, but to entertain. READ MORE
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5. Literature in the EFL Classroom : How EFL Teachers in a Few Swedish Secondary Schools Use Novels in Their Classrooms
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : Since 2011 The Swedish Curriculum for the compulsory school from 2011 (revised2018) states that different types of text that should be taught in EFL classrooms inSweden are “Literature and other fiction” (Skolverket 37). In my essay, I examine theuse of novels in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in a few Swedishsecondary schools. READ MORE
