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Filliettaz, Laurent – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Becoming a professional worker involves a wide range of cognitive, social, and cultural processes that have received extensive attention over the past decades amongst various disciplines. It is also not external to language use and communication. Novices in any occupation have to learn technical terms and are expected to master specific discourse…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Novices, Work Environment, Discourse Modes
Unver, Meral M. – Online Submission, 2017
In real life, people are exposed to various listening situations ranging from songs to chatting in social occasions (Ur, 1984). The variety of topics and nature of real-life listening situations put strain on learners of English; therefore, textbooks for language teaching are aimed to reflect these real life situations. However, listening, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Listening Skills
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Power, John B. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper documents the ongoing development of a framework for reflection for undergraduate learners new to the reflective process. Motivated by the gap between students' abilities and experience of reflection and the expectations of them at undergraduate level, the author experimented with a variety of approaches over a number of years. After…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reflection, Journal Writing, Guidelines
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Kronenberg, Felix A. – Dimension, 2014
Digital Storytelling offers many advantages for language learning, especially within a project-based framework. In this article, the use of Digital Micro-Narratives is proposed as particularly useful for second language learners at the novice level. As a sub-genre of Digital Storytelling, Digital Micro-Narratives focus more on frequently updated…
Descriptors: Novices, Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing, Story Telling
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Ebacher, Colleen – Hispania, 2013
Greater interest from students, universities, and communities has increased pressure on faculty to design and implement service-learning courses. Often with no prior experience and limited institutional and programmatic guidance, faculty must make their way through a growing body of literature on service-learning. This article presents a novice…
Descriptors: Spanish, Service Learning, Novices, Translation
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Sahrir, Muhammad Sabri; Alias, Nor Aziah; Ismail, Zawawi; Osman, Nurulhuda – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
The design and development research, first proposed by Brown and Collins in the 1990s, is currently among the well-known methods in educational research to test theory and validate its practicality. The method is also known as developmental research, design research, design-based research, formative research and design-cased and possesses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Semitic Languages, Usability
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2007
The author is presenting a program that she designed for teaching liaison interpreting to translation students in their fifth semester of the translation program at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT), who are starting their training in liaison interpreting. The students never had any interpreting or translation training before. The…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction