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Coyle, Do; Bower, Kim; Foley, Yvonne; Hancock, Jonathan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This ADiBE case study explores an innovative, integrated approach to addressing diversity in secondary classrooms in England, where more than one language is used and learned. We position diversity in multilingual and multicultural communities where schooling seeks to provide meaningful learning experiences for all students and guide learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Secondary School Students, Bilingual Education
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Yanghee Kim; Diantha Smith – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2018
This paper presents a vignette of our development of a robot-based app sponsored by the corporation producing the robot. The discussion in this paper begins with the affordances of humanoid robots that enable transformative pedagogical approaches to address children's needs. Next, we present our design case, where we develop a humanoid robot-based…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Young Children, Robotics, Computer Oriented Programs
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Bekaryan, Lilit; Soghomonyan, Zaruhi; Harutyunyan, Arusyak – Research-publishing.net, 2017
The present paper addresses the practice of a new English classroom on the model of a free e-learning programme in the context of adult education in Armenia, a country where English is taught as a second foreign language. The research reviews the results and impact of an online English language learning programme initiated for those vulnerable…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pfenninger, Simone E.; Lendl, Johanna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper, we discuss the problem of articulation between levels in the educational system, as the transition from a rather more communicative, content-based and holistic approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching at primary level to more formal and explicit ways of foreign language (FL) teaching at secondary is often experienced…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
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Tucker, Thomas – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
The foundation of education is the curriculum which is used in the teaching/learning process. People have varying views in the field of curriculum. The question of what and how to teach has been around as long as education. This paper takes a closer look at how a sample of university students studying English in South Korea feel about the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Learning Experience
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Granados Beltrán, Carlo – HOW, 2011
Experiments in Content Language Integrated Learning have been carried out most of the time at primary and secondary education. However, not much is known about what higher education institutions are doing in this respect. This article aims to present an experience that occurred in the Languages Department at Universidad Central (Bogotá, Colombia)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Projects, College Second Language Programs
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Becerra, Luz María; McNulty, Maria – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
This action research examines experiences that students in a grade 10 EFL class had with redesigning a grammar-unit into a topic-based unit. Strategies were formulating significant learning goals and objectives, and implementing and reflecting on activities with three dimensions of Dee Fink's (2003) taxonomy of significant learning: the human…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Action Research
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
One of the aims of the Threshold Project was to examine the school-based learning experiences of children in lower primary grades in Southern African schools, particularly in relation to the changeover to English as the medium of instruction. Ethnographic observations were conducted in two Primary Education Upgrading Project (PEUP) schools and two…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Problems, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers