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William Thomas Okie – History Teacher, 2024
This article describes the author's experience teaching oral history to seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in Honduras for two weeks in 2017. Students planned and implemented an oral history project to document the local history of the valley and their communities. The author hoped that students would grow in their understanding of history as an…
Descriptors: Oral History, History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Teaching Methods
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Polat, Nihat; Mahalingappa, Laura; Hughes, Elizabeth; Karayigit, Cebrail – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study examines the effectiveness of a specially designed intervention in changing preservice teacher beliefs about the education of linguistically diverse students. The experiment involved a semester-long online letter exchange with English learner (EL) pen pal partners from two public schools. The research questions included: What effect did…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, English Language Learners, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Zheng, Dongping; Schmidt, Matthew; Hu, Ying; Liu, Min; Hsu, Jesse – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The purpose of this research was to explore the relationships between design, learning, and translanguaging in a 3D collaborative virtual learning environment for adolescent learners of Chinese and English. We designed an open-ended space congruent with ecological and dialogical perspectives on second language acquisition. In such a space,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Educational Environment, Chinese, Language Acquisition