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Gürefe, Nejla – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
This study explores how hard of hearing students decided whether the shape was a polygon and which semiotic sources were used when the students engaged in explaining geometrical concepts. It was defined how the students interacted with geometric shapes using semiotic sources and examined how such multimodal interactions with geometric figures…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Hearing Impairments, Semiotics, Nonverbal Communication
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Evmorfia-Iro Bartzia; Michael Lodi; Marco Sbaraglia; Simon Modeste; Viviane Durand-Guerrier; Simone Martini – Informatics in Education, 2024
In this paper, we present an activity to introduce the idea of public-key cryptography and to make pre-service STEM teachers explore fundamental informatics and mathematical concepts and methods. We follow the Theory of Didactical Situations within the Didactical Engineering methodology (both widely used in mathematics education research) to…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
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Kristen Michelson; James F. Lee; Mourad Abdennebi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Recent scholarship in multiliteracies-oriented pedagogies has advocated for greater attention to fostering 'textual thinking', understood as forms of literacy that consider the complexities of semiotic choices made by authors, and their underlying meanings, rhetorical purposes, and cultural contexts. This kind of engagement with texts calls upon…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Semiotics
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Wang, Hao; Chao, Xia – Language and Education, 2022
Drawing from Darvin and Norton's (2015) investment model, this study investigates ethnic Tibetan students' multilingual practice and its influence on these students' ethnic identity construction at an interior university in People's Republic of China (PRC). Based on multiple data sources, findings from this study indicate that Tibetan students…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Sino Tibetan Languages, Multilingualism, Language Usage
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Campos, Esmeralda; Zavala, Genaro; Zuza, Kristina; Guisasola, Jenaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division level physics students in a Mexican and a Spanish university to learn how students recognize the main characteristics of the electric field in three of its more widely used representations, namely, algebraic notation, vector field plot, and electric field lines, and how the students do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Energy, Teaching Methods
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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study engaged a group of Taiwanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) adolescent learners as multimodal composers who used PPT slides to retell important elements of Roald Dahl's classic novel, Matilda (1988). A total of 158 slides were made by 9 groups of students, and a detailed analysis of the slides revealed that text was often…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Guzman-Jimenez, Rosario; Dhavit-Prem; Saldívar, Alvaro; Escotto-Córdova, Alejandro – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
Yupana Inca Tawa Pukllay (YITP) is a ludic didactic resource based on semiotic alternation that, using the reading of numbers in the Inca numeral system, improves its equivalent Indo-Arabic reading. Twelve children from first to fourth grade of a bilingual (Spanish-Quechua), multi-grade elementary school in a small rural Peruvian community were…
Descriptors: Semiotics, American Indians, American Indian Students, American Indian Languages
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Yuan, Rui; Yang, Min – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study aims to explore a teacher educator's perceptions and practice of translanguaging in his education classrooms as a teacher of English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Adopting a qualitative case study approach, the research revealed that the teacher educator used three translanguaging strategies (i.e. integrating academic discourse with…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Case Studies, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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Zhang, Rui – SAGE Open, 2021
Blended learning utilizes the affordances of information and communication technology to integrate online learning with face-to-face teaching. It facilitates to meet students' disciplinary learning needs and helps them achieve the intended learning outcomes so that they can advance in their professional study. The present study focuses on…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English for Special Purposes, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Min, Jeeyoung – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2019
This interpretive case study examines how undergraduate students enact visual literacies, focusing on transmediation from visual-embedded research papers into multimodal brochures, in an entry-level college writing course at a large research university in the U.S. Data sources included students' artifacts, interview transcripts, and field notes. A…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Undergraduate Students, Case Studies, Research Papers (Students)
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Paige, Kathryn; Bentley, Brendan; Dobson, Stephen – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Slowmation is a twenty-first century digital literacy educational tool. This teaching and learning tool has been incorporated as an assessment strategy in the curriculum area of science and mathematics with pre-service teachers (PSTs). This paper explores two themes: developing twenty-first century digital literacy skills and modelling best…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers
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Alfallaj, Fahad Saleh Suleiman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The trend in the Reading class in KSA has been what is called "Standards Based Proficiency" as opposed to the more desirable "Real World Reading Requirements". This is also where the greatest gap occurs. Whereas white collar jobs may require more reading, blue collar jobs may invariably involve reading of technical manuals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Huang, Shin-ying – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
This study explores the relevance of multimodality to critical media literacy. It is based on the understanding that communication is intrinsically multimodal and multimodal communication is inherently social and ideological. By analysing two English-language learners' multimodal ensembles, the study reports on how multimodality contributes to a…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure
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Guichon, Nicolas – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This article proposes a methodology to create a multimodal corpus that can be shared with a group of researchers in order to analyze synchronous online pedagogical interactions. Epistemological aspects involved in studying online interactions from a multimodal and semiotic perspective are addressed. Then, issues and challenges raised by corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Lo, Yi-Hsuan Gloria – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2017
A curriculum is a form of politics (Apple, 1993). The politics of a curriculum defines what is legitimate and valued and what is not. In Taiwan, the objectives of vocational high school (VHS) education are to prepare students to acquire relevant professional knowledge and practical skills and to integrate them into their future career development.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Vocational High Schools, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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