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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Global Topics"”.
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Teaching EFL/ESL College-level Learners through Current Global Topics: Integrated Lessons for EFL/ESL Teachers
… social settings is highlighted in today’s highly globalized world. Being able to understand and discuss complex global topics related to current cultural, social, and business issues and events has become an integral skill of English learners to achieve greater international connectivity. …
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Profile Creation with Topic Modeling and Semantic Analysis from Conversations about COVID-19 among U.S. Older Adults
… status, and relationship to a local community, global topics and sentiment-based topics are extracted from the text and labeled by human researchers. Direct comparisons between profiles within an axis uncover differences warranting further analysis. The results produced from topic modeling can …
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Incorporating global perspectives into a social studies methods class: a case study
… dissertation is a case study examining the ways global perspectives are incorporated in a preservice teacher education program consisting of a social studies methods course and a practicum class. The goal is to reveal external and internal tensions student teachers and teacher educators …
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An analysis of dominant discourse in Grade 8 English Home Language textbooks
… issues related to contemporary South African and global topics are evident in the choice of content, the texts often perpetuate fairly conservative ideologies, either through their content, the exercises that follow or through the silences implicit in the selection of excerpts. Many of the …
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Stories of Self and Other: Four In-Service Social Studies Teachers Reflect on Their International Professional Development
… the participants' conceptualizations of global education and whether or not this experience allowed one group of American teachers to challenge their perceptual lenses with regards to their social studies curricula. An ethnographic understanding of the contexts in which these teachers …
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Gendered Environments in Canada: An Analysis of Women and Environments Magazine, from 1976 to 1997
… around the world. Despite expanding its scope to global topics, for the most part, W&E’s writers and readers were Canadian, and specifically represented a Toronto perspective. As such, the magazine was not necessarily a national magazine, but it was nonetheless a Canadian magazine. Such variations …
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Unfamiliar sounds in familiar settings: On the cosmopolitan labour of film composers in Istanbul
… are rapidly becoming a focus of local and global interest, as Turkey grows as a consumer marketplace and as a player in global affairs. Films and television programs have become key players in Turkey’s economic, cultural, and diplomatic resurgence. Despite film’s reemergence, film music has …