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Zhao, Ke; Du, Xiangyun; Tan, Huiyu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
In light of increased cross-border movements of students to pursue their academic studies, university educators in many contexts are concerned about a lack of interactive engagement among students from different cultural backgrounds because of the use of L2 in international programmes. This study explores how students develop engagement in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Lesser, Lawrence M.; Kephart, Kerrie – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
The first day of a course has great potential to set the tone for the entire course, planting the seeds for habits of mind and questioning and setting in motion expectations for classroom discourse. Rather than let the first meeting contain little besides going over the syllabus, the instructor (Lesser) decided to use two sustained open-ended…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Case Studies, Inquiry, Problem Based Learning
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Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Barrows, Howard S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
This article describes a detailed analysis of knowledge building in a problem-based learning group. Knowledge building involves increasing the collective knowledge of a group through social discourse. For knowledge building to occur in the classroom, the teacher needs to create opportunities for constructive discourse in order to support student…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Inquiry, Group Behavior