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Fox, Katherine E. – Teaching Sociology, 2022
The Alien Worlds project teaches ethnographic skills using the societies of dystopian, postapocalyptic, and science fiction texts as imagined field sites and targets for analysis. These exercises and assignments, which illustrate principles of qualitative fieldwork, were developed when COVID-19 precautions made it impossible to assign tasks that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Science Fiction, Sociology
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Trebiocchi, Chiara – NECTFL Review, 2022
Post-communicative methodologies nowadays provide instructors with multiple curricular models to reimagine their syllabi, design creative assignments, and prepare their lessons. Yet, challenging topics are still often avoided, fearing students' limited language proficiency. Conversely, compelling content--carefully presented and pedagogically…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Course Descriptions
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Kapon, Shulamit; Laherto, Antti; Levrini, Olivia – Science Education, 2018
Pursuing both disciplinary authenticity and personal relevance in the teaching and learning of science in school generates tensions that should be acknowledged and resolved. This paper problematizes and explores the conceptualizations of these tensions by considering personal relevance, disciplinary authenticity, and common school science as three…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Educational Objectives, Course Content, Epistemology
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McCabe, Anne – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article provides results of analysis of data collected from online Spanish-medium subject courses taught in Spanish by the same teacher to students whose first language is English. The students are at a high-intermediate to advanced level (B2-C1), and are enrolled at an American university in Madrid in courses centring on topics of Spanish…
Descriptors: Spanish, Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McCabe, Anne – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article provides results of analysis of data collected from online Spanish-medium subject courses taught in Spanish by the same teacher to students whose first language is English. The students are at a high-intermediate to advanced level (B2-C1), and are enrolled at an American university in Madrid in courses centring on topics of Spanish…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hüttner, Julia; Smit, Ute – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
While research on CLIL suggests positive impacts on lexical proficiency and on spoken language, the crucial question of the effect of CLIL on advanced learners, both in terms of subject-specific language (SSL) proficiency and content knowledge, has received less attention. We argue that the ability to negotiate a factual position appropriately is…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students