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Brown, Jill P.; Stillman, Gloria A. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
This paper explores use of a set of diagrammatic tools for representation and analysis of the moves a teacher makes implementing a mathematical modelling task. The focus here is on identifying what the teacher did so we can subsequently interrogate this, as to the why. Data include pre and post lesson teacher interviews and transcripts of a video…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Task Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
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Beisler, Amalia; Bucy, Rosalind; Medaille, Ann – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2019
The adoption of streaming video by academic libraries is widespread, yet little is known about the experiences of faculty and students who use streaming video. This article describes a usability study of three popular streaming video databases. Faculty and student participants completed a series of tasks in each database and answered questions…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Databases, Academic Libraries, College Students
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Tekin Dede, Ayse; Bukova Guzel, Esra – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to investigate both the planning and implementation process of a modelling task by a middle school mathematics teacher. The participant of the study, which was conducted as a single case study, is a middle school mathematics teacher who have knowledge and experience in modelling. The data collecting tools of this study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Castillo, Rigoberto; Silva-González, Heidy Erika; Sanabria-Chavarro, Leidy – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This paper presents a study that looked into the structuring of tasks that may foster oral fluency in an intensive eight-week course with 25 young adult and adult learners of English as a foreign language in a format of tutoring sessions for conversation. The action research involved two teachers and a research advisor, coauthors of this paper.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jaramillo Cherrez, Nadia Veronica – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examines the impact of technology-mediated pedagogical tasks on students' willingness to communicate and communicative performance in the intermediate level of Spanish at Iowa State University. Drawing from the framework on technology-mediated tasks by Gonzalez-Lloret & Ortega, 2014, and the World-Readiness Standards for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Tekkumru Kisa, Miray; Stein, Mary Kay – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Students' opportunities to learn how to think are embedded in the instructional tasks with which they are invited to engage in the classroom. Prior research has revealed that the selection and use of cognitively demanding tasks does not guarantee high-level student thinking during their enactment. To address this challenge, we designed and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Video Technology, Science Instruction, Cognitive Processes
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Whyte, Shona; Alexander, Julie – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2014
Classroom foreign language teachers using technology in task-based language teaching (TBLT) may experience pedagogical regression during technological development (Fullan, 2001), and fail to transform pedagogy because tools like interactive whiteboards (IWBs) support traditional as well as newer approaches (Avvisati et al., 2013). IWB-supported…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Ishihara, Noriko – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
There has been an upsurge of interest in teaching second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics in recent years, but much of this effort has been targeted at adult learners. This article introduces small-scale informal instruction exploring the pragmatic development of 9-year-olds in Tokyo, facilitated through dialogic intervention on pragmatics using…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Kiliçkaya, Ferit, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
The 5th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture has been hosted by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey), in cooperation with Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) and Süleyman Demirel University (Isparta, Turkey). Our main aim has been to provide a forum for discussion, to facilitate integration in these fields, and to…
Descriptors: Literature, Conferences (Gatherings), Figurative Language, Speeches
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Morales Henao, Enith Viviana; Peña Piragua, Angélica Paola – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2008
Professors at the "Institucion Universitaria Colombo Americana" (UNICA) have aimed to deliver lessons for second language learners which integrate content and language, resulting in an "integrated lesson" design. The Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington, DC) recommends the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lesson Plans, Course Content, Verbs