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Ryan A. Burke; Jamie J. Jirout; Bethany A. Bell – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Cognitive engagement is an essential component in student learning. With the increase of more asynchronous virtual educational tools in classrooms, there is a need to understand how students are engaging with classroom content in these formats. Several studies have examined student and teacher perceptions of cognitive engagement in virtual…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Ryan A. Burke; Jamie J. Jirout; Bethany A. Bell – Grantee Submission, 2024
Cognitive engagement is an essential component in student learning. With the increase of more asynchronous virtual educational tools in classrooms, there is a need to understand how students are engaging with classroom content in these formats. Several studies have examined student and teacher perceptions of cognitive engagement in virtual…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Thomas Zapounidis; Marina Mattheoudakis – Journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 2024
This article highlights the need for a new type of corpus that will combine both a learner and a pedagogic corpus. The need for such a type of corpus is underlined by the interaction between input and output and the expected impact of the former on the latter within all instructional settings. Such a corpus will allow us to collect data, including…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Biswas, Bidisha; Haufler, Virginia – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
Critics contend that current college graduates lack necessary skills for the workplace. What are the aptitudes that employers seek? How can classroom instruction and assessment help develop these capacities, particularly in an international relations class? Numerous surveys of employers indicate they value cross-cutting "soft"…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Potential, International Relations, Outcomes of Education
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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study reveals hitherto overlooked effects of age of onset (AO) in immersive school contexts, using multiple measures over time so as to focus on fluctuations and trends in individual data. The second language (L2) English development was studied in 91 children who received 50-50 content and language integrated learning (CLIL) instruction in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, English (Second Language)
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Oliver, Rhonda; Nguyen, Bich – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2017
In this study, we explore how Aboriginal multilingual speakers use technology-enhanced environments, specifically Facebook, for their translanguaging practices. Using data collected from Facebook posts written by seven Aboriginal youth over a period of 18 months, we investigate how the participants move between Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Social Media, Indigenous Populations
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Abreu, Laurel; Knouse, Stephanie – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2014
Scholars have indicated a need for further research on effective pedagogical strategies designed for advanced foreign language courses in the postsecondary setting, especially in light of decreased enrollments at this level and the elimination of foreign language programs altogether in some institutions (Paesani & Allen, 2012). This article…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Prescott, Claudia – Babel, 2015
The idea of "powerful knowledge" has been developed by Young (2008; 2010; 2012; 2013), who argues for a subject-based curriculum. This notion has created widespread debate within the fields of sociology of knowledge and the sociology of the curriculum. Young's work takes a social realist perspective to describing the academic disciplines…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Curriculum
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Llinares, Ana – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
Research on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has expanded substantially in the last 10 years. While research interests have predominantly focused on language learning outcomes and the comparison between CLIL and English as a foreign language (EFL) students' competence in the foreign language, recent studies have called for the need…
Descriptors: Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kondo-Brown, Kimi, Ed.; Saito-Abbott, Yoshiko, Ed.; Satsutani, Shingo, Ed.; Tsutsui, Michio, Ed.; Wehmeyer, Ann, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2013
This volume is a collection of selected refereed papers presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Annual Spring Conference held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in March of 2011. It not only covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but also…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Morales, Erik E. – Educational Action Research, 2009
With the goal of assisting predominantly low-socio-economic status and minority undergraduate education majors to achieve necessary competence in the use of oral and written Standard English, an innovative action research initiative was incorporated into an introductory education class at a comprehensive urban university in the northeastern part…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Undergraduate Study, Urban Areas, Economic Status
Rudolph, Robert S.; Summers, Richard M. – Freshman English News, 1977
Describes an analysis of the content of the CLEP General Examination in English Composition which found that the emphasis is placed on the student's knowledge of standard written English. (MB)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Content, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Del Polito, Carolyn M. – 1975
This curriculum guide contains topics and outlines for a beginning, individualized course in speech-communication. Following a statement on the philosophy of the course, the objectives, learning strategies, evaluation methods, and class attendance requirements are presented in the first section of the guide. In the second section, 11 topics are…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Higher Education
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Allred, Hilda F.; Clark, Joseph F. – Journal of Business Communication, 1978
Discusses a survey of business professionals and business teachers to determine the written communication problems of recent college graduates and solicits opinions about the content of the college business curriculum. (MH)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Business Skills, Communication Problems
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Tripp, Steven D. – System, 1990
Attempts to look at the question of selection and sequencing in light of recent research into the nature of spoken English. Specifically, it is argued that a lexical metasyllabus based on statistical regularities in spoken and written language would be a useful tool to curriculum designers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Language Research
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