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Çevik, Hüseyin; Duman, Tayyip – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aims to determine the effects of morpa campus, a practice of e-learning on the science learning in the primary level in terms of primary school teachers' views. Qualitative research method was used in this research. The sample of the study is composed of 16 teachers that use Morpa campus. In order to get their views about Morpa campus,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Qualitative Research, Electronic Learning, Content Analysis
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Case, Alissa; Ngo, Bic – Multicultural Perspectives, 2017
The authors discuss the ways in which neoliberal multiculturalism influences the reception and implementation of antiracist initiatives on college campuses. They suggest the intersections of neoliberalism and racism produce a resistance to antiracist efforts and desire for softened multicultural approaches that maintain the status quo. Since the…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Racial Bias
Milofsky, Alison; Sany, Joseph; Lancaster, Illana; Krentel, Jeff – United States Institute of Peace, 2017
This report examines the role of conflict management training in preparing peacekeepers for United Nations/African Union missions through an assessment of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Conflict Management Training for Peacekeepers program. The assessment relies on data collected through 137 semistructured interviews with returned…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Peace, Training, Semi Structured Interviews
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Fernández, Julieta – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
This study investigates the instructional treatment of Argentine Spanish vernacular (i.e., "lunfardo"), metapragmatic information about its use provided by instructors, and participants' metapragmatic awareness of vernacular use in a second language (L2) Spanish study abroad (SA) classroom. The participants were 12 American undergraduate…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Theobald, Maryanne – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
Working within culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms may present challenges for monolingual researchers wishing to gain children's perspectives. Consequently, children who are not fluent speakers of the dominant language are under-represented in early years' research. When linguistic boundaries exist, one recommended approach is working…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, Japanese, English (Second Language)
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Ayranci, Bilge Bagci – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Fairy tales are used intensively by Turkish teachers in Turkish lessons. Elements in tales need to be examined in many respects such as their suitability for cultural transmission, psychological benefits, and harms, correct and effective use of language and so on. The opinions of the Turkish teachers in the field are very important for this…
Descriptors: Fairy Tales, Turkish, Language Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Burt, Brian A.; Knight, Alexander; Robeson, Justin – Journal of International Students, 2017
Despite a growing body of work on the experiences of Black collegians, the higher education knowledge base lacks scholarship focused on Black men in graduate programs who are foreign-born and/or identify ethnically as other than African American. In this article, we provide a domain-specific investigation (i.e., based on students' field of study),…
Descriptors: Blacks, Engineering Education, Graduate Students, Racial Factors
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Hurdus, Jeremy; Lasagabaster, David – Language and Education, 2018
Most agency-focused research in language-in-education policy compares codified intention to reality. Such an approach implies that the policy in question is ontologically stable and can therefore act as the benchmark against which to compare practice. Operating under the notion that ontologically grounded methodologies are susceptible to missing…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Ethnography, Spanish
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Ahmad, Kham Sila; Armarego, Jocelyn; Sudweeks, Fay – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2017
Aim/Purpose: To develop a framework for utilizing Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) to assist non-native English migrant women to acquire English vocabulary in a non-formal learning setting. Background: The women in this study migrated to Australia with varied backgrounds including voluntary or forced migration, very low to high levels of…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Le, Thinh Van; Cunningham, Una; Watson, Kevin – JALT CALL Journal, 2018
Vietnamese high school students have few opportunities to use English outside class and they are often reluctant to speak in class. This paper describes and explains the students' willingness to communicate (WTC) and relates this to varied perceptions of social presence. Eighteen high school students in Vietnam took a six-week online course using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Social Media
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Ardern, Catherine – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
Previous research investigating the use of Mindfulness as an intervention has generally taken a quantitative approach, focusing on outcomes rather than processes. The purpose of this research was to develop an understanding of how and why Mindfulness training might influence young people. The study explored the changes in narratives that occur in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Behavior Problems, Behavior Change, Intervention
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Dryden-Peterson, Sarah – Theory and Research in Education, 2016
The number of refugees who have fled across international borders due to conflict and persecution is at the highest level in recorded history. The vast majority of these refugees find exile in low-income countries neighboring their countries of origin. The refugee children who are resettled to North America, Europe, and Australia arrive with…
Descriptors: Refugees, Children, Student Experience, Foreign Countries
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Walker, Dana – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This paper analyses the cultural practices that were introduced in a radio improv class on the first day of Youth Radio Arts for immigrant students, and how these practices served as resources to mediate students' understanding of, and realisation of 'voice' over time. The theory-method combines insights from interactional ethnography and…
Descriptors: Radio, Foreign Students, Ethnography, Theater Arts
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Bruen, Jennifer; Kelly, Niamh – Language Learning Journal, 2017
This paper considers the attitudes and behaviours of university language lecturers and their students regarding the use of the L1 in the higher education L2 classroom. A case study of one Irish higher education institution was carried out and qualitative interviews conducted with six lecturers in Japanese and six in German. The results indicated…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty
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Galali, Atta; Cinkara, Emrah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Two main opposing approaches exist regarding the impact of first-language (L1) use in the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language: the monolingual and bilingual approaches. Some linguists assume that students' L1 should be banished from their English classes, whereas others assert that it facilitates the process of learning a target…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, Language Usage
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