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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Classroom-based research"”.
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What is the question that group work is the answer to?
… introduction of Curriculum 2005 in 1998, various classroom-based research projects were undertaken to monitor the implementation of the new curriculum. The findings of these projects point to the widespread use of a certain type of group work in South African classrooms. The Report of the Review …
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Engaging differences linguistic diversity and critical literacy pedagogy in the classroom
… issues of language and diversity in the classroom.The study foregrounds the nature of students' and teachers' engagements with linguistic diversity and the role of the teacher in critical literacy. In South Africa there is very little classroom based research which shows how students and …
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A study of pupil participation in learning : factors which promote or undermine inclusion
This small-scale piece of practitioner research centres on the participation and learning experience of one group of year 7/8 pupils. My aim was to increase pupil participation in learning. I considered the pupil experience of inclusion and factors which promoted or undermined participation in …
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Young Children's Experiences With Literacy
This interpretive classroom-based research explored literacy experiences of a small group of good and poor readers from a broad perspective. Data were collected in 2004 over two academic semesters in two different public elementary schools in two cities in the Midwest. Data sources include …
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Out of the Shadows: Rethinking Response Through the Instructor -Led Peer Conference
… of responding to student writing in composition classrooms. It argues that the primary value of response lies not in the evaluation or correction of student texts, but instead in the opportunities it presents for the dialogic shaping of writers and their writing practices over time. It focus …
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Student involvement in science in the junior primary school: a video-analysis of a multi-grade classroom setting in Ireland
This classroom based research project focuses on participation rates of children in the junior primary school during science classes and from the information gathered attempts to identify how a teacher can encourage optimal participation from all children. Factors which influence participation …
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Making Sense Of Mathematical Language In A Primary Classroom
This dissertation describes a classroom-based research project on the language of primary school mathematics as used in three mathematics lessons and eight structured interventions with children. My aim is to analyse the classroom dialogue and consider the effectiveness of the participants’ …
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The use of the target language/second language and the use of the first language: four case studies of German and Spanish teachers in modern foreign language post-primary classrooms in the Republic of Ireland
… target language as the principal language of the classroom is an important element in creating an effective learning environment. The pedagogical value of use of the first language is also contested. There has been limited research into these aspects of classroom practice and in particular …
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The role of drama in teaching English: Towards the enhancement of students' communicative skills at the University of Namibia
… University of Namibia. The discussions of the research focused on assessing the benefits of using drama in the teaching of English to increase students’ motivation and self-confidence, as well as meeting the aims of integrating drama activities in the teaching of the English Access Course at …
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Learning novel vowel contrasts: experimental methods in classroom applications
This dissertation reports on perceptual training of tense-lax vowel contrasts in the context of an advanced-level ESL pronunciation class for Chinese and Korean international graduate students. The vowel contrasts were trained under four training paradigms designed to examine the effects of …
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Inquiry into the Writing Pedagogy for Middle School Language Arts
… writing philosophies were examined. Overarching research questions were (1) What role does writing pedagogy play in a language arts program? (2) What strategies were used to teach writing? and (3) What types of assessments were utilized? The theoretical framework of my research was based on …