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Kendrick, Anna Kathryn – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
Children's drawings hold a contested place in archives of war. Often portrayed as unfiltered records of psychological impact on innocent young civilians, the same drawings are also sophisticated testimonies of agency. With child-artists creating their work within classrooms, families, and communities, this article offers an alternative reading of…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Art Products, World History, Teaching Methods
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Aritza Sáenz del Castillo Velasco; Joseba Iñaki Arregi-Orue; Leire Agirreazkuenaga Onaidia; Joseba Jon Longarte Arriola – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: The Basque Country has been suffering political conflict and human rights´ violation for decades, tearing the social fabric. Human rights and peace education carried out through the testimony of the victims and their memory about this recent violent past can play an essential role in reestablishing the social understanding. This article…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response)
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Martínez-Flor, Alicia, Ed.; Sánchez-Hernández, Ariadna, Ed.; Barón, Júlia, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2023
This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics. Also included are chapters that present…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Pragmatics, Teaching Methods
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Skelly, Katherine Jane; Estrada-Chichon, Jose Luis – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Mindfulness is a relaxation technique that has been associated with positive effects when used as a coping strategy for stress and anxiety. In this regard, the objectives of this article are to investigate how mindfulness could help improve adolescents' ability to regulate their attention, emotion, behaviour and thinking; learn English as a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sánchez, Laura – English Language Teaching, 2019
In an era of globalization, multilingualism is no longer the exception but the rule. To fully promote the communicative and functional development of multilingual learners, different educational programs at school have been implemented in the past few years. The study presented here is a contribution in this direction, by investigating the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Ability, Second Language Instruction, German
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Sanchez, Alfonso Corbacho; Magro, Luis Javier Conejero – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
This article proves statistically the effectiveness of humour in the teaching of English and German to Spanish students of foreign languages. The referred lexicon is particularly troublemaking because of the difficulties that such vocabulary poses for Spanish learners of not-Latin-originated languages. The approach followed is a quantitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Humor
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López, Miriam Romero; Fernández, Montserrat López; Martínez, María Carmen Pichardo – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: The huge impact of technology in the last few decades, and the ample development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has established them as an essential characteristic of today's society. This vertiginous advance, and the quantity and diversity of changes in knowledge that are being generated, are inducing important…
Descriptors: Neurology, Physiology, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Bartlett, Linda; Manyé, Lourdes – Hispania, 2015
The long-running Spanish television program "Cuéntame cómo pasó" represents not only a wildly successful series for Radio Televisión Española, but also an excellent example of the project of historical memory. Premiering in 2001 (but set, in the first season, in 1968), the story of the multigenerational Alcántara family forms a…
Descriptors: Spanish, Social Change, Democracy, Foreign Countries
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Bueno-Alastuey, M. Camino; Agulló, Gloria Luque – International Journal of English Studies, 2015
Research has shown that teaching second language (L2) learning strategies explicitly promotes an increase in strategy use and in oral proficiency. Consequently, a checklist based on the six types of strategies from Oxford's taxonomy (1990) was created to analyze strategic instruction in the most common textbooks used in the last year of Higher…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Barrantes, Manuel; Blanco, Lorenzo J. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2006
There are two basic guiding referents in the present investigation: the teaching and learning of school-level geometry (basic concepts of Euclidian geometry and measure) and the analysis of the conceptions of prospective primary teachers in Spain. The work assumes that such conceptions appear and develop during school years, and that consequently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This volume of the 30th annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents: plenary panel papers; research forum papers; short oral communication papers; and poster presentation papers from the meeting. Information relating to discussion groups and working sessions is also provided.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction