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Hao Cheng; Keyi Lyu – SAGE Open, 2024
Reverse education, where younger individuals teach older adults, has gained prominence but lacks comprehensive understanding regarding its dynamics and impacts. This study addresses this gap by exploring the cognitive processes of older adult learners who view young university students as their teachers. Through semi-structured interviews with 12…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Students, Young Adults, College Students
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Janík, Tomáš; Slavík, Jan; Najvar, Petr; Jirotková, Darina – SAGE Open, 2020
There is no education without content. Teaching and learning in schools is devoted to "something," not to "nothing" or "anything." The more heterogeneous, multicultural, and multilingual the classroom, the more semantization of educational content within teaching and learning is needed. Therefore, the role of various…
Descriptors: Semantics, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Adil, Mohammad – SAGE Open, 2020
This study aims to investigate the perception of language teachers and their experience regarding the use of translation as a language teaching approach in Saudi Arabia. The study adopted a cross-sectional qualitative design to investigate the role of translation as a communicative approach in language teaching. Data were collected through a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Wang, Xue; Zhang, Wei – SAGE Open, 2022
Given the significance of cultivating students' autonomous learning ability, there is a need to develop an instructional model that can improve students' awareness and behavior of autonomous learning, as well as to explore the effectiveness and optimization of this model effectively. Taking college English course as a case study, this paper…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personal Autonomy, Case Studies
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Poole, Adam; Liujinya, Yang; Yue, Shi – SAGE Open, 2022
This paper reports on an emerging type of international school, which we refer to as the Chinese internationalized school. This school caters to Chinese citizens and aspires to offer a fusion of national and international curricula. The majority of internationalized schools in China are to be found in large metropolitan centers. Accordingly, the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, International Education, Barriers, Curriculum Implementation
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Solehuddin, Muhammad; Adriany, Vina – SAGE Open, 2017
The notion of social justice has often been overlooked in the field of early childhood education because many teachers think that it is too early to introduce the concept to young children. Using multicultural theories, this article attempts to explore kindergarten teachers' perceptions on the issue of social justice. The method adopted in this…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
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Underwood, Paul R. – SAGE Open, 2017
This article reports a multiple case study that explores the potential impact of Japan's national curriculum for senior high school English as a foreign language (EFL), specifically in relation to the integration of grammar teaching with communicative work, a key component of the curriculum and an area globally underresearched in high schools. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Teachers
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Rumney, Peter; Buttress, Joy; Kuksa, Iryna – SAGE Open, 2016
As political agendas change, the teaching of writing continues to evolve, encompassing different writing practices in an attempt to address the perceived needs for literacy in our society. This article presents the Write Here project, which aims to boost children's social development and literacy attainment through engagement with visual art,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Literacy
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Albino, Gabriel – SAGE Open, 2017
This study was an attempt to assess how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) improved their speaking fluency in a task-based language teaching (TBLT) approach used with ninth-grade learners at PUNIV-Cazenga, a high school in Luanda. In a case study design that used picture-description tasks, learners' speeches were audio recorded before…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Abduh, Amirullah; Rosmaladewi, Rosmaladewi – SAGE Open, 2018
Most studies of intercultural competence in bilingual programs have been conducted in non-Asian contexts resulting in little information on how Indonesian educators promote intercultural values within bilingual programs. This research contributes to the body of literature that examines the promotion of intercultural values within bilingual higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Values, Higher Education
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Samaranayake, Sarath Withanarachchi – SAGE Open, 2016
This study investigates the current teaching trends and practices in teaching oral English in rural Sinhala-medium schools in Sri Lanka and their relevance to the current theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical perspectives of second-language acquisition (SLA). The present study, which was conducted in two Sri Lankan Sinhala-medium rural schools,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries