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Lide Yu; Lianghui Cai – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The effectiveness of distance learning primarily depends on the motivation and engagement of students. The aim of this article is to determine whether the developed online course enhances students' motivation to read and their engagement with contemporary American literature. The methodology is based on an experimental design. A mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, United States Literature
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Bozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; Mir, Kamran; Stewart, Bonnie; Costello, Eamon; Mason, Jon; Stracke, Christian M.; Romero-Hall, Enilda; Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Toquero, Cathy Mae; Singh, Lenandlar; Tlili, Ahmed; Lee, Kyungmee; Nichols, Mark; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Brown, Mark; Irvine, Valerie; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Farrell, Orna; Adam, Taskeen; Thong, Ying Li; Sani-Bozkurt, Sunagul; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Hrastinski, Stefan; Jandric, Petar – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Teacher Role
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Yang, Yikuan – English Language Teaching, 2018
In response to an age of turmoil and oppression, Lu Xun's fiction features irony and it is manifested in artistic form which should be retained in English translation to achieve equivalence. Failure to do so would weaken or lose the ironical effect intended by Lu Xun and result in Western readers' inclination to neglect historical and social…
Descriptors: Fiction, Translation, English, Chinese
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Xiao Zhou; Chuming Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article aims to uncover how alignment affects second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition by Chinese-speaking learners of English as they interact with various interaction loads (i.e. input text, peers and video). It also explores how tasks with varying interactional intensity in relation to the interaction loads influence the alignment…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Huaqing; Luo, Shaoqian – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: Against the backdrop of China's curriculum reform, this paper explores how a Chinese lesson study (CLS) of English literature instruction in a senior high school promotes the teacher participant's professional development (PD) in teacher beliefs and emotions, teaching contents, teaching approaches and learner outcomes.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, English Literature, High School Teachers, Faculty Development
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Gu, Yi-xin; Lau, Kit-ling – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Reading is a complex task that requires cognitive and emotional engagement. The integrated instruction approach, incorporating strategy instruction and literature circles, was developed to improve Chinese students' reading comprehension, reading motivation, and strategy use in reading fiction books. The current study adopted a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Hongying Peng; Sake Jager; Wander Lowie – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Digital storytelling (DS) has increasingly been incorporated as a pedagogical tool to engage EFL learners for active language learning. However, little is known about how EFL learners make self-initiated use of multifarious resources available to them for engaging in the DS practice behaviourally, cognitively, affectively and socially. This…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Wen-Ding; Morrissey, Paul; Chan, Pao-Jing – Higher Education Studies, 2022
The purposes of this paper are to investigate Taiwanese undergraduate students' responses to a selected fictional text, and to propose a critical intercultural pedagogical approach of reading global literature in the EFL educational context based on the insights from the research findings. The authors first critically analysed Xiaolu Guo's third…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Makaiau, Amber Strong; Ragoonaden, Karen; Leng, Lu; Mangram, Charmaine; Toyoda, Mitsuyo – Studying Teacher Education, 2019
This article explores how five international colleagues from the USA, Canada, China, and Japan use self-study methodologies and online journaling to systematically examine the tensions surrounding the lived experiences of feminist academics in diverse global contexts. It draws from the theoretical foundations of critical qualitative inquiry,…
Descriptors: Feminism, Journal Writing, Faculty Development, Multicultural Education
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Chen, Shih-Wen – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
Before Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu became household names, San Francisco-born detective Mr. Wang and his rival Jugatai, the Manchu head of the Secret Society of Federated Asia, entertained young British readers in the early twentieth century. This article examines these under-explored characters, created by the prolific military…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Authors, Fiction, Crime
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Chen, Shih-Wen – Children's Literature in Education, 2013
This paper considers how "knowledge" of China was presented for Victorian and Edwardian children in "The Boy's Own Paper" ("BOP") between 1879 and 1914. It considers how genre affects the representation of China in the "BOP" by comparing travel narratives and adventure stories. First, it focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
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Araujo, Juan J., Ed.; Babino, Alexandra, Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2018
For their 61st annual conference, the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) met in St. Petersburg, Florida. This year's conference theme was "Engaging All Readers through Explorations of Literacy, Language, and Culture," which was also used as the title for this year's "Yearbook." This "Yearbook"…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Economics
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Zhang, Chenyi; Morrison, Johnetta W. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2010
Based on the occurrence of modernization and globalization in Chinese society over the last few decades, the content of 145 stories, published in the most popular Chinese children's story magazine from the 1980s to the present, were examined for the representation of cultural values. The presence of Chinese, Western and social-moral values in…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Global Approach, Moral Values, Cultural Influences
Chen, Minjie – Multicultural Education, 2009
The sheer amount of American children's and young adult literature, boasting an outpouring of 5,000 titles every year, often amazes a person who is new to this field. Not only is a large proportion of these books of high printing and binding quality, but, at a quick glance, among them is also a pleasant diversity of genre, format, targeted age…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Modern History, War, Young Adults
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Wu, Yenna – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
A controversial best-selling Chinese novel of the mid-1980s is discussed in terms of the main character's antiheroic qualities, the narrator's ambivalent voice, and the interplay between sexual impotence and cultural regression. (18 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Fiction, Foreign Countries, Politics
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