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Carter, Katherine – English Teaching Forum, 2015
The descriptive paragraph and subsequent essay are usually among the first assignments students must complete in composition classes. Typically, students are told to describe their childhood home, a person of importance, a special object, or a summer vacation. Most students, especially learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), have…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Moussa, Nahla Mohamed Aly – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Today, adoption of innovative technology is an important subject for research and work. Recent research discussed the importance of integrating modern technology into teaching and learning environments in higher education settings (Aucoin, 2014; Fisher, Worley & Fernandez, 2012; Kajuna, 2009). Learning styles of individuals also play an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Technology Integration
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Boerman-Cornell, William – Reading Teacher, 2016
This study analyzes how second, third, and fourth graders in a racially integrated suburban school engaged in multimodal meaning making in the context of a book club discussing Ben Hatke's graphic novel "Zita the Spacegirl." Qualitative analysis of field notes and assessments indicated three overall findings: First, students responded to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Crogman, Horace; Trebeau Crogman, Maryam – Cogent Education, 2016
The concept of learning styles in education is highly questionable when used to categorize students in particular ways and attempt to match them to corresponding forms of instruction. This paper argues that the various learning modalities called Learning Styles are only cognitive tools that all learners have access to and must use to process…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
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Paek, Seungoh; Hoffman, Daniel L.; Black, John B. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine if student understanding of new material could be promoted by manipulating the perceptual factors experienced at the time of learning. It was hypothesized that the thematic relevance of perceptual factors would be a significant contributor to learner understanding. To test this hypothesis, one hundred…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Multimedia Instruction
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Asher, Asha; Nichols, Joy D. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2016
The article uses a case study to illustrate transdisciplinary perspectives on facilitating emergent literacy skills of Elsa, a primary grade student with autism. The study demonstrates how a professional learning community implemented motor, sensory, and speech/language components to generate a classroom model supporting emergent literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Occupational Therapy, Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Maldonado Torres, Sonia Enid – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between Latino students' learning styles and their language spoken at home. Results of the study indicated that students who spoke Spanish at home had higher means in the Active Experimentation modality of learning (M = 31.38, SD = 5.70) than students who spoke English (M = 28.08,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Hispanic American Students, Correlation, Preferences
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Regalla, Michele; Peker, Hilal – Learning Languages, 2016
During the 2013-2014 school year, a charter school in Central Florida (which will be given the pseudonym "The Unity School") known for its practice of full inclusion launched an unconventional project. The Unity School, which serves children from preschool through grade five, began offering foreign language to all pre-kindergarten…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Second Language Instruction, French
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Fitzgerald, Miranda S.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The goals for engaging students in peer learning range from positioning students as knowledgeable others to promoting social-emotional learning goals to providing contexts in which students can articulate and compare their thinking to supporting opportunities to cogenerate solutions to complex problems. There are a number of complexities…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 6
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Joutsenlahti, Jorma; Kulju, Pirjo – Education Sciences, 2017
The purpose of this study is to present a multimodal languaging model for mathematics education. The model consists of mathematical symbolic language, a pictorial language, and a natural language. By applying this model, the objective was to study how 4th grade pupils (N = 21) understand the concept of division. The data was collected over six…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Bishop, Catharine F.; Caston, Michael I.; King, Cheryl A. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Learner-centered environments effectively implement multiple teaching techniques to enhance students' higher education experience and provide them with greater control over their academic learning. This qualitative study involves an exploration of the eight reasons for learner-centered teaching found in Terry Doyle's 2008 book, "Helping…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, College Students, Learning Processes, Comprehension
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Carter, James B. – SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2015
The article debuts and explains "PIM" pedagogy, a construct for teaching comics at the secondary- and post-secondary levels and for deep reading/studying comics. The PIM model for considering comics is actually based in major precepts of education studies, namely constructivist foundations of learning, and loosely unifies constructs…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Teaching Methods, Secondary Education
Lotherington, Heather, Ed.; Paige, Cheryl, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2017
This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington's "Pedagogy of Multiliteracies" (2011), this volume picks up after…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods, Student Diversity, Elementary School Teachers
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Choi, Jayoung; Yi, Youngjoo – TESOL Journal, 2016
Despite the proven benefits of multimodal teaching and learning (i.e., through visual, sound, movement, print-based text, and technology) for students, little is known about how teachers of English language learners (ELLs) integrate multimodality into their existing curriculums. In this study, the authors examined how two teachers who had limited…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Learning Modalities, English Language Learners, Classroom Techniques
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Westgate, David; Hughes, Maureen – Education 3-13, 2016
In a previous phase of a project based in a group of UK primary schools, speaking and listening was found to be an effective focus for improved learning across the curriculum and for teachers' professional development. At the project's second stage and in the light of recently changed Department for Education guidelines, these findings have been…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Video Technology, Interviews, Diaries
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