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Nicholas Fimognari; Leaf R. Kardol; Terese O’Shannassy; Katherine A. Sanders; Jeremy T. Smith; Caitlin S. Wyrwoll – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Western societal norms have long been constrained by binary and exclusionary perspectives on matters such as infertility, contraception, sexual health, sexuality, and gender. These viewpoints have shaped research and knowledge frameworks for decades and led to an inaccurate and incomplete reproductive biology curriculum. To combat these…
Descriptors: Birth, Sex Education, Sexuality, College Faculty
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Wei Dan; Ming Li – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Learners' interaction with lecture materials has remained underexplored despite the growing body of studies on the use of materials. The current study explored the actions EFL learners employed during the use of lecture materials in tertiary classrooms in China through the lens of a transactional view. This empirical study involved forty-two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Ghaleb Rabab'Ah; Sane Yagi; Sharif Alghazo – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the use and functions of metadiscourse markers in English as a foreign language (EFL) virtual classroom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study examined which metadiscourse markers--interactive or interactional--were used more frequently and how they were employed in an EFL context. It explored two interactive metadiscourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pandemics
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le Roux, Kate; Kloot, Bruce – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Engineering educators express concern that undergraduate engineering students solve problems procedurally without the necessary conceptual understanding. While research in engineering dynamics has focused on using technology to improve student performance, this article focuses on using representations for modelling problem solving in the lecture.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education, Semiotics
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Kramar, Natalia – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper presents an analysis of engagement markers in the Lectures on Physics by eminent scientist and Nobel prizewinner R. P. Feynman, based on K. Hyland's model of interaction in academic discourse as stance and engagement. The Lectures were taught at the California Institute of Technology during 1961-63 and, having been turned into a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientists, Learner Engagement
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Molino, Alessandra – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
This paper deals with the use of metadiscourse by Italian university lecturers who teach through the medium of English (EMI, English-Medium Instruction). The objective is to verify whether, irrespective of possible shortcomings in their mastery of the language, lecturers demonstrate sensitivity to the situational demands of the EMI classroom,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, English (Second Language), Metalinguistics
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Ädel, Annelie – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
This article takes the theme of metadiscourse across genres as a point of departure. To illustrate variation in the use of metadiscourse, reflexive uses of second person "you" are examined in different genres and discourse types, all of which represent academic discourse. The material includes university lectures, research articles,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis
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Fryling, Meg; Rivituso, Jack – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
In Fall of 2014, as a result of a Chinese faculty visit to an upstate New York college to observe American pedagogical techniques in teaching information systems, two US faculty members were invited to teach two separate courses at a vocational college in southeast China. The courses to be taught in China were selected by the Chinese faculty and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Information Systems, Vocational Education
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Maíz Arévalo, Carmen – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
University lectures are by far the most common method of teaching at Spanish universities. More recently, however, this knowledge transmission has become increasingly interactive. Students' participation and verbal output becomes especially important in classes where the language of instruction is not the students' mother tongue but a second or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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McInnes, David – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
This article argues that lecture discourse has the capacity to support students in their transition into modes of social critique and that the lecturer, through an enactment of an academic identity in lecture discourse, plays a crucial role as both model and guide. Certain crucial phases and sub-phases of lectures are used to model an engagement…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role, College Faculty
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Aziz, Azniwati Abdul; Ibrahim, Mohamed Akhiruddin; Shaker, Mohammad Hikmat; Nor, Azlina Mohamed – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Globalization causes educational institutions to encounter various challenges and demand, in which they need to play their roles in improving competitiveness and world-class quality education. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) as a university that integrates "Naqli" and "Aqli" knowledge has taken the globalization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Global Approach, Language Usage
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Kommalage, Mahinda; Gunawardena, Sampath – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
As a peer-assisted learning process, minilectures on physiology were conducted by students. During this process, students lecture to their colleagues in the presence of faculty staff members. These lectures were evaluated by faculty staff and students simultaneously. The aim of this study was to compare feedback from faculty members and students…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Usage, Nonverbal Communication, Physiology
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Pillay, A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Through a review of the literature, this article argues that it is imperative that lecturers at institutions of higher education not just embrace multiliteracy for teaching and learning, but accept, incorporate and affirm the many literacies that students bring with them to the lecture room. Multiliteracy in the lecture room supplements…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Lecture Method
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Rido, Akhyar – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2010
The objective of this research is to investigate the function of discourse markers as an interpersonal-interactive feature in a science lecture in second language (L2) setting in Malaysia. This research employs qualitative method while the data are gathered through non-participant observation and video recording. From the findings, there are…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Tin, Tan Bee – Language and Education, 2009
The paper discusses the various situational features and linguistic devices reflected in the three most interesting and the three least interesting postgraduate second language acquisition lectures taught by three lecturers. Students attending the classes were invited to record their interest level at regular intervals throughout the session. For…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Lecture Method
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