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Breive, Svanhild – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
This paper reports from a case study which explores kindergarten children's mathematical abstraction in a teaching--learning activity about reflection symmetry. From a dialectical perspective, abstraction is here conceived as a process, as a genuine part of human activity, where the learner establishes "a point of view from which the concrete…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Kindergarten, Abstract Reasoning, Semiotics
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Pearl, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Poverty of the stimulus has been at the heart of ferocious and tear-filled debates at the nexus of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy for decades. This review is intended as a guide for readers without a formal linguistics or philosophy background, focusing on what poverty of the stimulus is and how it's been interpreted, which is…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Syntax, Semantics
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Jabbari, Nasser; Peterson, Mark – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Many English as a foreign language (EFL) learners worldwide spend hours playing commercial-off-the-shelf massively multiplayer online games. They engage in a multitude of different interactions with the game environment and possibly with other gamers, using English as the predominant medium of communication. This raises the question of whether…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Video Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Abduh, Amirullah; Jayadi, Karta; Anshari; Basri, Muhammad; Arham, Muhammad – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
This research paper aims to explore a potential model for speaking through which consists of: (a) strategies of using art as a medium for learning English; (b) challenges to use art as a medium for learning English. This qualitative case study uses semi-structured interviews and observation in three schools of South Sulawesi. Data were analyzed…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Art Education, Design, Vocabulary Development
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Matsunaga, Kaoru; Barnes, Melissa Marie; Saito, Eisuke – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
There has been increasing attention given to the notion that international education consists of non-linear and multi-directional transmissive exchanges between existing institutional academic conditions and international students. Despite the role of international students' agency being paramount, there is a dearth of research on the…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
Soto, Ivannia – Corwin, 2021
The need for powerful professional learning to enable Multilingual Learners reach their full potential is more profound than ever. MLL shadowing is a way to create urgency around the instructional and academic needs of Multilingual Learners. The MLL Shadowing protocol is used to collect data on MLL's opportunities for speaking and listening--the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English Language Learners, Educational Needs, Speech Communication
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Zimmerman, Heather Toomey; Reeve, Suzanne; Bell, Philip – Journal of Museum Education, 2008
This research project examines the way that children and parents talk about science outside of school and, specifically, how they show distributed expertise about biological topics during visits to a science center. We adopt a theoretical framework that looks at learning on three interweaving planes: individual, social, and cultural (tools,…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Speech Communication, Biological Sciences, Learning Processes
Gayle, Barbara – 1990
Teaching organizational video is best accomplished by integrating organizational communication theory, rhetorical theory, and video production planning in one course. Focus on the individual project is the most beneficial as a stand-alone segment and as a highlight of the planning process that may be part of a corporate communication employee's…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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Searle, Dennis James – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis
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MacIntyre, Peter D. – Modern Language Journal, 1995
Advocates that language anxiety can play a significant causal role in creating individual differences in both language learning and communication. This paper studies the role of anxiety in the language learning process and concludes that the linguistic coding deficit hypothesis errs in assigning epiphenomenal status to language anxiety. (57…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Case Studies, Cognitive Ability