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Hongxia Li; Xing Chen; Xiya Chen; Changqun Shan – Educational Psychology, 2024
Online learning burnout poses a paramount concern due to its detrimental influence on students' academic cognitive learning and mental health. Aiming to explore the association between teacher humour (content-related and content-unrelated) and online learning burnout, this study surveyed 585 college students enrolled in various online courses. The…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Burnout, Humor, Teaching Methods
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Junmei, Jiang – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
Oscar Wilde is one of the most hilarious playwrights in the history of English literature. And 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is his masterpiece. With Wilde's humorous and witty language as the starting point and aided by the concordancing software WORDSMITH TOOLS, a detailed analysis was carried out on this comedy from lexical level and…
Descriptors: Drama, Computational Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching Methods
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Fleming, David H. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
In this article I explore the pedagogical value of Gilles Deleuze and FĂ©lix Guattari's philosophical concepts for helping make an "event" of thought, with a view towards fostering deep learning in Chinese students' learning theory and criticism in a second language. Paying attention to the qualitative role of bodies, humour and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Confucianism, Learning Theories