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Boris Vazquez-Calvo; Alba Paz-López; Sergio Rey-Godoy – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Memes are a popular form of digitally mediated discourse that allow users to express thoughts and emotions, often leaving identity traces of their creators or sharers. This study uses the classroom activity Story by Memes as both a narrative tool for self-presentation in language teacher education and a method for exploring identity representation…
Descriptors: Internet, Popular Culture, Story Telling, Language Teachers
Minott, Mark – Educational Studies, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative study is to provide answers to the research question, "What teacher characteristics do London upper Secondary school students value?" Using convenient or opportunity sampling, 51 Grade 12 and 13 students ages 16-18 in a south-west London secondary school were interviewed using a face-to-face method. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics
Vera E. W. Hanaoka – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines how L2 Japanese speaker international students experience their subjectivity (Harre & Gillett, 1994), that is, how their language use and actions convey their thoughts and feelings, their sense of self, and how they relate to the world around them, in casual conversations with L1 Japanese speaker peers. In order to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Japanese, Second Language Learning
Eerdemutu Liu; Junju Wang – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Recently, there is a surge of interest in a wide range of learner emotions in the SLA field, underlining a holistic perspective of language learning emotions. The present study examines the relationships between the three prevalent emotions among language learners -- foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and foreign…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Teacher Student Relationship, Pronunciation
Anahit Ani Yeghyayan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Given the loss of heritage languages due to assimilation of the dominant English language in U.S. society within three generations of migration to the U.S. (Wiley & Valdes, 2000), it is of paramount importance to examine how we can maintain and enhance heritage languages. Humor is a pragmatic tool which one can utilize to increase…
Descriptors: Humor, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Heritage Education
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This document presents the proceedings of the 27th Annual Research Forum held June 29, 2023, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following fifteen action research papers: (1) The Effects of Real-World Mathematics Activities on High School Students' Attitudes (Alexa Altizer); (2) An Investigation of the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Mathematics Activities, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Burnett, Audrey J.; Walter, Katherine Ott; Baller, Stephanie L. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2016
Digital stories (N = 71) were created in partial fulfillment of undergraduate coursework at a large mid-Atlantic university. Based on the alcohol habitus, two major themes emerged: the content present (e.g., dissonance between visual and narrative representations) and the content conspicuously absent from the stories (e.g., first-person…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Humor, Drinking, Teaching Methods
Luo, Lingling; Zhou, Chunfang; Zhang, Song – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2016
This article aims to study both similarities and differences in female students' creativity between Mainland China and Taiwan. As two main aspects influencing creativity, playfulness and humor are especially focused on in this comparative study. Empirical data were collected from 831 students in Mainland China and 703 students in Taiwan. Based on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Geographic Regions, Humor, Creativity
Gülaçti, Fikret – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this study is to reveal the attitudes of students to the teaching profession in terms of self-esteem, altruism, social comparison, life satisfaction, humor style, a five-factor personality types of the students of the Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program (PFECP), and to determine the relationships if there is between…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Self Esteem, Altruism
Polacek, Cheryl Birdhat – ProQuest LLC, 2017
American Indian students who have attended tribal colleges have expressed gratitude, appreciation and pride in their educational and cultural experiences at these institutions. Most of the 37 tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in the US and Canada currently offer two-year degree and certificate programs. Many American Indian students who wish…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Student Attitudes, Whites, Institutional Characteristics
Walker, Ute – Distance Education, 2017
This article examines the discursive construction of social presence and identity in a bilingual collaboration between tertiary distance learners of German in New Zealand and Academic English students in Germany. Drawing on positioning theory, this small-scale study investigated the collaborative practices of a group of students, whose synchronous…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Lillemyr, Ole Fredrik; Sobstad, Frode; Marder, Kurt; Flowerday, Terri – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
Based on theory and research, social aspects like friendship and sense of relatedness are fundamental in the development of children's cultural identity and achievement of outcomes. It is argued that this is a motivational aspect often neglected in research studies focusing on students' motivation and learning. Theory and research on motivation…
Descriptors: Socialization, Play, Indigenous Populations, Student Attitudes