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Direct linkKervinen, Anttoni; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Juuti, Kalle; Uitto, Anna – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
Science education can be alienating for students, as it is apart from the mundane world with which they are familiar. Science education research has approached the gap between everyday understandings and science learning largely as a challenge arising while learning about science concepts and the kinds of instructional approaches that may support…
Descriptors: Science Education, Learning Activities, Outdoor Education, Relevance (Education)
Skalicky, Stephen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Informed by a theoretical model of satirical uptake, this study investigated processing behavior and comprehension of satirical news articles. Reading times for segments of minimally different satirical and non-satirical texts were collected using within-subjects (Experiment 1) and between-subjects (Experiment 2) designs. Segment reading times and…
Descriptors: Satire, Language Processing, Reading Rate, Prediction
Skalicky, Stephen; Crossley, Scott A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Previous investigations of satire posit that satire comprehension is influenced by prior knowledge, satirical strategies, and other demographic features, such as age. However, these claims have not yet been tested using online processing techniques. In this study we investigate satire processing using newspaper headlines from the satirical…
Descriptors: Satire, Newspapers, Journalism, Humor
Shardakova, Maria – Modern Language Journal, 2016
Over the past decade, second language (L2) humor has attracted scholarly attention as both a means and a goal of L2 development. Much of this research, however, has focused on oral communication, whereas virtually no studies address humor as an aspect of reading comprehension. This exploratory study combines these two areas of inquiry, examining…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Russian, Reading Comprehension, Humor
Download full textEkmekçi, Emrah – Online Submission, 2017
Employing drama activities in foreign language classes has proved to help language learners improve their skills. Within the context of drama course offered in an English Language Teacher Education program in Turkey, the present study suggests some drama activities based on well-known Nasreddin Hodja jokes. The study aims to find answers to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Teaching Methods, Humor
Greer, Tim, Ed.; Ishida, Midori, Ed.; Tateyama, Yumiko, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2017
In the research literature on interactional competence in talk among second language speakers and their coparticipants, this volume of "Pragmatics & Interaction" is the first to focus on interaction in Japanese. The chapters examine the use and development of interactional practices in a wide range of social settings, from everyday…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
