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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Teaching context"”.
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Professional learning in a Vietnamese university language teaching context: An inquiry-driven approach
… their pedagogical knowledge, improve their teaching practices, and engage in professional learning practice. The study lay within an interpretive paradigm and was predominantly qualitative, using a small amount of quantitative data from the questionnaire administered at the beginning of the …
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Code-mixing of Arabic and English in a university science-teaching context : frequency, grammatical categories, and attitudes
… in a university scientific and technical teaching context. While the language policy in Libya is one which promotes the maintenance and purification of Arabic, and there are ideological barriers against the use of foreign languages (Al-Galley, 1989), English is a guest language that plays …
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Towards an Understanding of the Appropriate Cultural Content of EFL Textbooks for a Specific Teaching Context: The Case of EFL Textbooks for Saudi Secondary State Schools
… the effectiveness of the suggested ways for teaching the cultural content of Saudi EFL textbooks relevant to the students, teachers, and administration practices. The process of the textbook evaluation showed a prevalent result, that the participants’ preferences rarely coincided with their …
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Curriculum design in higher education using a learning outcome-led model: Its influence on how students perceive learning
… learning in education studies within a modular context of a new university. It identifies and compares the conceptions of learning held by students and lecturers on traditional and outcome-led modules, and it explores and specifies the design factors which shape these conceptions. The issue is …
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Lecturers' perceptions of enhancing student engagement through anonymous online engagement strategies
… ways of engaging students online in the teaching and learning process. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its extensive lockdowns and instant shift to fully online teaching and learning, created a more challenging context for student engagement. During this time, faculties and departments …
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Transformative Professional Development Through the Eyes of Jack Mezirow and Thomas Guskey
… personal background, included their present teaching context and focused on real time applications was considered effective by teachers and thus more likely to effect change in their classroom pedagogy. Additionally, it was beneficial when professional development included time for …
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Paper 1: The myth of the native speaker and Paper 2: Linguistic imperialist or cultural ambassador? The native English teacher in Japan
… with narrative and identity in English language teaching. In Module 1, I introduced conversational narrative and examined ways in which descriptions of conversational narrative might be applicable to the development of pedagogic models for teaching English to learners in Japan. I concluded that …
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Grammar matters? Teaching Irish as a second language in Ireland
… the role of English grammar in second language teaching in the Irish context where English is the medium of instruction. A mixed methods approach was employed to investigate whether having a sound knowledge of English grammar might facilitate the teaching of Irish grammar. Teachers’ perspectives …
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O uso de jogos matemáticos como estratégia pedagógica para a aprendizagem de situações do campo aditivo
… and analysis of the learning process in the context of room situations. We base the work with studies on the play activity in teaching context; the game and the teaching of mathematics; the additive conceptual field and the acquisition of this by the students. Then a sequence of six teaching …
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A case study exploring tutor perceptions on the effects of the study diamond in developing critical thinking on an Open University level 1 arts course
This case study explores the concept of teaching critical thinking through a process known as the <i>Study Diamond</i>. The <i>Study Diamond</i> is a study tool embedded in an Open University (OU) Level 1 Introductory Arts course. Entitled <i>'Making Sense of the Arts'</i> and identified by the …
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Trials, Triumphs, and Transitions: Examining Perceptions of New Teacher Induction in Relation to Mentoring and School Culture
It is a well-known fact that entering the teaching profession can be a challenge for nearly anyone (Kronowitz, 2004). Recently, the discussion has shifted to looking at strategies to assist the new teachers in making the transition (Portner, 2005; Sweeny, 2008), with an attempt in the province of …
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Teaching Strategies to Improve Intercultural Competence of Business English Major Students in Jiangxi Province of China
… majors in central part of China, and explore the teaching strategies that teachers are using to tackle those barriers. The teaching strategies were offered by a group of teachers in a university located in the capital city of Jiangxi province and useful for constructing a teaching strategy model …
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Culture Teaching and Learning in an Advanced Placement Chinese Course
<p>The significance of teaching culture in the foreign language classroom has been widely acknowledged. However, it remains a challenge for language teachers to properly incorporate culture teaching into language teaching. Chinese language teachers in the United States also encounter the challenge …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Process of Teaching Jazz Improvisation
… and practices utilized by jazz educators for the teaching of improvisation as a creative process. Improvisation has been an integral feature of the jazz performance tradition for well over a century. However, the field of creativity studies has only recently come to recognize improvisation as a …
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American musical theater songs in the undergraduate vocal studio : a survey of current practice, guidelines for repertoire selection, and pedagogical analyses of selected songs
… significance to this study of the songs in a teaching context. There is therefore a need for the establishment of repertoire-selection guidelines and pedagogical analysis of selected musical theater songs so that additional teachers will become well informed.Following the introduction in …
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Professional learning across contexts for LESLLA teachers: the unlikely meeting of adult educators in kindergarten to explore early literacy instruction
… inquiry, they sought to improve the teaching and learning of this unique and neglected group of ESL learners. Now living in the U.S., such learners face a double challenge: acquiring English while learning to read an alphabetic print language for the first time. Their teachers must be …
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An after-school literacy program : investigating the experiences of students with literacy difficulties, their volunteer tutors, and the tutors' transition into the teaching profession
… to gain information concerning the efficacy ofteaching literacy strategies to students with learning difficulties, the impact of this training on their volunteer tutors, and the influence of this experience on these tutors' ensuing instructional practice as teacher candidates in a preservice …
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Re-centering the teacher agency narrative: educators reflecting on context, positionalities, and situated identities
… through (a) their positionality within the context of the school, (b) the context they work in and roles they play within these contexts, (c) the extent of their instructional, pedagogical, and curricular agency and the decisions they make within their instructional settings, and (d) their …
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Investigating Global Englishes-oriented teacher development through the lens of transformative learning theory: A study of South Korean elementary EFL teachers’ experiences
… called for a paradigm shift in English language teaching (ELT) – a move away from standard English-oriented teaching to reflect the diversity, fluidity, and hybridity of English used in the global community. As teachers are important agents of change in the classroom, this call has generated a …
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A computational model for task-adapted knowledge organisation: improving learning through concept maps extracted from lecture slides.
… slides, due to their wide usage within the teaching context and the poor support of sequentially-structured lecture slides in aiding learners in identifying relationships between information. In general, semantically and syntactically missing and ambiguous text in lecture slides make it …
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