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Yun-Ping Ge; Wen-Jin Yang; Hak-Ping Tam – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
This study based on cognitive and social semiotic theories investigates whether the influence of specific features of instructional representation from adolescent textbook images could last until adulthood in certain cultures. Two cultural groups, Indonesian (n = 61) and Taiwanese (n = 60) college students, were recruited from a public Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Biology, Science Instruction, Evolution
Evmorfia-Iro Bartzia; Michael Lodi; Marco Sbaraglia; Simon Modeste; Viviane Durand-Guerrier; Simone Martini – Informatics in Education, 2024
In this paper, we present an activity to introduce the idea of public-key cryptography and to make pre-service STEM teachers explore fundamental informatics and mathematical concepts and methods. We follow the Theory of Didactical Situations within the Didactical Engineering methodology (both widely used in mathematics education research) to…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Yinggen Ke; Saengchan Hemchua – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Cultural differences and geopolitical disputes severely impede the globalization process. As a method of eliminating cross-cultural misunderstandings and fostering mutual respect, it is crucial to increase cross-cultural awareness through cross-cultural education to support the world's peaceful and healthy development. This article investigates,…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Asian Culture, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Differences
Wilson, Rachel E.; Bradbury, Leslie U. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
In order to investigate the impact of science drawing instruction in a first-grade unit on carnivorous plants (CPs), we analysed student-produced drawings after explicit instruction in drawing scientifically (n=38), as well as compared their drawings with students in a previous implementation (year 1) who did not experience explicit drawing…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Grade 1
Xiong, Tao; Peng, Yue – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This paper presents a comparative analysis investigating how cultural values are represented in two sets of widely used Chinese as a second language (CSL) textbooks published in mainland China (New Practical Chinese Reader, NPCR) and the US (Integrated Chinese, IC) respectively. Using an integrated critical social semiotic approach, we examined…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lawson-Adams, Jessica; Dickinson, David K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Early vocabulary knowledge is vital for later reading comprehension and academic success. Studies have found that augmenting explicit teaching of word meanings with nonverbal visual aids, particularly pictures and gestures, assists young learners in building rich lexical representations. Research has focused on the effects of visual supports in…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Music Education, Musical Instruments
Kouki, Rahim; Griffiths, Barry J. – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
In this article we present the results of a qualitative investigation into the teaching and learning of Taylor series and local approximations. In order to perform a comparative analysis, two investigations are conducted: the first is historical and epistemological, concerned with the pedagogical evolution of semantics, syntax and semiotics; the…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Kim, YouJin; Belcher, Diane – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
Over the past decade, digital multimodal composing (DMMC) in the language learning context has received growing attention. DMMC entails teaching writing as the social practice of meaning making using various semiotic tools (Siegal, 2012). Despite its potential benefits as a way to teach a meaning-making process in the current digitalized era, much…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students
Qadha, Adil Mohammed Hamoud; Mahdi, Hassan Saleh – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Semiotics has been investigated in the literature to enhance second language vocabulary acquisition. The previous studies have examined how semiotics could aid second language (L2) learner to learn concrete words. This study aims at investigating the effect of semiotics on learning abstract words. Fifty-five Arab learners of English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Semiotics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nora W. Lang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adolescent newcomer students bring a wealth of linguistic and cultural resources to their learning environments--resources that become even more dynamic when combined with those of their peers. While a significant body of research has explored students' deployment of multilingual resources through translanguaging, most of this work does not…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immigrants
Basoz, Tutku; Can, Dilek Tüfekci – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
Semiotics has recently achieved some prominence as a theoretical foundation for foreign language learning/teaching. Though there have been a number of research on the semiotics in foreign language learning, the practical use of semiotics in preschool classroom environment still remains unanswered. What is more, the effectiveness of computers on…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Computer Uses in Education
Gómez Burgos, Eric – HOW, 2017
The following article reports the results of an action research project conducted in a public university in Chile. The project consisted of exposing ten undergraduate students from an English pedagogy program to a genre-based approach to writing expository essays. During eight weeks the three stages of the genre-based approach, namely:…
Descriptors: Essays, Expository Writing, Literary Genres, Writing Instruction
Van Viegen, Saskia; Zappa-Hollman, Sandra – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
This paper draws draw on conceptualisations of language as heteroglossic to examine whether and how multilingual practices and plurilingual pedagogies are enacted as instructional strategies in two multilingual English-medium universities in western Canada. Multilingual educational contexts have the potential to comprise 'translanguaging spaces'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English
Lin, Angel M. Y.; Lo, Yuen Yi – Language and Education, 2017
There has been a rich literature on the role of language in learning and on its role in knowledge (co-)construction in the science classroom. This literature, rooted in social semiotics theories and sociocultural theories, discussed research conducted largely in contexts where students are learning content in their first language (L1). In this…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Teaching Methods
Lee, Sungwoong – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Reports and surveys by the U.S. government and international organizations have repeatedly acknowledged the achievement problem in math in K-12 regardless of various efforts (e.g., by the U.S. Department of Education) to diminish it. To address the problem in math achievement in K-12, teachers, scholars, and the U.S. government have developed…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Video Games
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