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Amir Michalovich – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
As Canada is increasingly committing to refugee resettlement, there is a critical need to understand how youth from refugee backgrounds can be supported to achieve their full potential in Canadian schools. This multi-year qualitative ethnographic case study explores the affordances of in-school video production for one plurilingual adolescent…
Descriptors: Affordances, Video Technology, Film Production, Multilingualism
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Johnson, S?ímla?w Michele K. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2017
Many Indigenous languages are critically endangered and faced with the urgent need to create parent-aged advanced speakers. This goal requires sequenced curriculum, effective teaching methods, students being supported to spend more than 2,000 hours on task, and regular assessments. In response to this urgent need the author followed a proven…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Textbooks, Second Language Learning
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Johnson, Michele K. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
way', iskwíst, "my name is", S?ímla?xw, and I am from Penticton BC, Canada. kn sqilxw. I am a Syilx (Okanagan, Interior Salish) adult language learner. My cohort and I are midway in our language transformation to become proficient speakers. Our names are Prasát, S?ímla?xw, C'?r?tups, X?wnámx?wnam, Sta?qwálqs, and our Elder, S?amtíc'a?.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Canada Natives
Rose, Russell G. – 1997
This paper discusses the use of francophone films produced in French-speaking areas outside France in the second-language classroom, using several films from African countries and Canada as examples. The idea is that such films give students more than an abstract idea of a francophone region outside France, and represent large views of language…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Film Study, Foreign Countries
Mackie, Ardiss; Norton, Bonny – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
In this article, we draw on disruptive scenes in a postsecondary classroom to examine a critical incident concerning conflicting readings of the film "Pearl Harbor" (2001). We raise crucial questions for pedagogical work with popular film: Who speaks for whom about the meaning of a given film? Under what conditions do students resist…
Descriptors: Films, Criticism, Popular Culture, Resistance (Psychology)
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Abasi, Ali R.; Taylor, Maurice C. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2007
Although video has long been used as a teaching aid in adult literacy and basic education, literacy researchers seem to have ignored the potential benefits of using video as a tool that could add rigour to research. Reporting on their field experiences of an adult literacy learning study in Canada, the authors provide a narrative account of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Videotape Recordings, Classroom Research
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Stuart, Janie – TESL Canada Journal, 2005
This article about issues and strategies looks at the need for teachers to recognize prejudice among students in Canadian ESL classrooms. The author notes the lack of information on this topic in TESL courses and publications. A sampling of responses from ESL teachers interviewed about the issues is included and serves to highlight the need for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends