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Porto, Melina, Ed. – English Language Education, 2022
With a Foreword by Hugh Starkey and Audrey Osler, and Afterwords by Graham Crookes, Hilary Janks and Allan Luke, this book promotes critical language education and illustrates how a critical agenda can be enacted in English language education in real classrooms. It presents four cases located in primary and secondary schools in the province of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Newton, Douglas P.; Newton, Lynn D. – Educational Studies, 1995
Argues that, even for young children, analogies offer conceptual models for supporting the development of understanding. Compared children's understanding of current electricity after instruction with and without the inclusion of analogies. Children receiving the analogies exhibited a broader understanding, especially concerning the process of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Demonstrations (Educational)