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Zabka, Thomas – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
My argument is that a literary education should build on a primary level of responsivity towards literature, involving empathy and immersion in the world of the text. To engage with literary works from the past involves a play between familiarity and strangeness, and this play should be located as part of a reader's response to texts, rather than…
Descriptors: Literature, English Instruction, Familiarity, Reader Response
Bell, Robin – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Encouragement by the Chinese government for education to move from an emphasis on passive learning, rote memorisation and mechanical training towards the development and delivery of education using active, student-centred education approaches has resulted in tensions and challenges, one of which is the reaction of students previously used to…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Donyaie, Shadi; Afshar, Hassan Soodmand – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2019
The study examined the extent to which Iranian EFL teachers were familiar with reflective journal writing (RJW), the possible contribution of a consciousness-raising interactive workshop to the participants' individual and collective journal writing, and their perception of the barriers to RJW. The study enjoyed a qualitative design employing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Holi Ali, Holi Ibrahim; Al Washahi, Qasim; Alhassan, Awad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
IELTS is used as a screening gatekeeper and plays a crucial role in Omani students to meet job requirements. This paper reports on Omani English-major undergraduate students' reflections on their experience of the reading section of Academic IELTS. The main aim of the study was to elucidate their difficulties and coping strategies to inform…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Testing Accommodations, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Greve, Anne; Garnier, Pascale; Ulvik, Oddbjørg Skjaer; Øien, Ingvil; Chantseva, Victoria; Fallang, Bjørg; Gulbrandsen, Liv Mette; Rayna, Sylvie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Food practices are culturally and historically situated, and so are conceptions of 'risk'. Comparative studies of food practices can highlight these cultural norms and conceptions. In this article we will present results from a study that investigated food practices in Norwegian and French kindergartens with a particular focus on constructions of…
Descriptors: Food, Risk, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background
Sauro, Shannon; Sundmark, Bjorn – ReCALL, 2019
This paper critically examines the integration of online fanfiction practices into an advanced university English language classroom. The fanfiction project, The Blogging Hobbit, was carried out as part of a course in the teacher education program at a Swedish university for students who were specializing in teaching English at the secondary…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cartoons
Bijlsma, Nienke; Schaap, Harmen; de Bruijn, Elly – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Meaning-making and sense-making are generally assumed to be part of students' personal vocational knowledge development, since they contribute to both students' socialisation in a vocation and students' personalisation of concepts, values and beliefs regarding that vocation. However, how students in vocational education acquire meaning and make…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Academic Achievement, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning
Gonzalez, Maru; Kokozos, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
Increasingly, students are facing hostility and violence as a result of one or more of their social group memberships. Such prejudicial attitudes and actions contribute to antagonistic intergroup relationships in public schools (i.e., K-12). This article examines dialogic approaches to prejudice reduction, with a specific emphasis on intergroup…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Social Bias, Elementary Secondary Education, Evidence Based Practice
Luo, Tian; Sickel, Jamie; Cheng, Li – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
This study presents two cases in which undergraduates were introduced to Twitter in their teacher preparation program as a means of developing a personal learning network. Twitter live chats are synchronous discussions that allow education stakeholders to discuss issues and share resources, engaging on potentially a global scale via the social…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education
Shi, Lijing; Stickler, Ursula; Lloyd, Mair E. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The demand for online teaching is growing as is the recognition that online teachers require highly sophisticated skills to manage classrooms and create an environment conducive to learning. However, there is little rigorous empirical research investigating teachers' thoughts and actions during online tutorials. Taking a sociocultural perspective,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Howells, Kerry; Fitzallen, Noleine; Adams, Christine – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Australian higher education institutions have struggled to develop clear strategies for developing and assessing graduate attributes within their specific disciplinary contexts. Using the example of the graduate attribute of social responsibility, this paper explores the outcomes of using assessment tasks to raise the awareness of development of…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Curriculum Enrichment, Graduate Study, Pretests Posttests
Troyan, Francis J.; Kaplan, Carolyn Shemwell – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
In response to the call for improving teacher candidates' familiarity with the assessment tasks and format of the edTPA (Hildebrandt & Swanson, 2014), this single case study investigated the reflective writing development of Jena, a K-12 Spanish teacher candidate, and her evolution in a pedagogy that focused on the development of writing two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Certification
Dayal, Hem Chand; Lingam, Govinda Ishwar – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
Teacher's conceptions are important as they could have a strong influence on their professional practices. This study set out to explore Fijian teacher's conceptions of assessment. Seventy teachers enrolled in an assessment course at a university in Fiji were involved in this study. Data was collected by asking teachers to write a reflection on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Reflection, Evaluation
Seung, Eulsun; Park, Soonhye; Jung, Jinhong – Research in Science Education, 2014
This study explored preservice elementary teachers' and their mentors' understanding of the essential features of inquiry-based teaching through the use of evidence-based reflection. The web-based video analysis tool (VAT) system was used to support preservice teachers' and mentors' evidence-based reflection during field…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Active Learning
Komba, Sotco Claudius; Mwandanji, Marcus – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
This study investigated issues surrounding the implementation of competence based curriculum in Tanzanian secondary schools. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the teachers' understanding of the objectives of competence based curriculum; to investigate the teachers' abilities in preparing competence based lesson plans; to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Implementation
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