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Waldman, Tina; Harel, Efrat; Schwab, Götz – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The paper presents a telecollaboration project between 54 pre-service teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) studying at a teacher training college in Israel and a university in Germany. The telecollaboration involved a collaborative Project Based Learning Task (PBLT) in which the students compared and evaluated the ways EFL is taught in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning
Inkpen, Sarah Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The Premier Technical College of Qatar (PTC-Q) has seen high failure rates among students taking a college statistics course. The students are English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in business studies and health sciences. Course delivery has involved conventional content/ curriculum-centered instruction with minimal to no interactive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, College Mathematics, Statistics
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Bohon, Leslie L.; McKelvey, Susan; Rhodes, Joan A.; Robnolt, Valerie J. – Teacher Development, 2017
Experiential learning theory places experience at the center of learning. Kolb's four-stage cycle of experiential learning suggests that effective learners must engage fully in each stage of the cycle--feeling, reflection, thinking, and action. This research assesses the alignment of Kolb's experiential learning cycle with the week-long Summer…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Instructional Improvement, English Language Learners, Faculty Development
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Buxton, Cory A.; Salinas, Ale; Mahotiere, Margarette; Lee, Okhee; Secada, Walter G. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: In exploring how emergent bilingual learners' prior knowledge from home and play contexts might influence their scientific reasoning, this study drew upon two distinct research traditions: (a) experimental research from the developmental and cognitive psychology tradition, and (b) research on culturally and linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism
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Zheng, Dongping; Newgarden, Kristi; Young, Michael F. – ReCALL, 2012
Applying Communicative Project theory (Linell, 2009), we identify and distinguish between the different coordination and language activities that emerged during an episode of "World of Warcraft" ("WoW") gameplay involving English Language learners (ELLs). We further investigate ELLs' coordinations between killing and caring, self and others, in…
Descriptors: Caring, English (Second Language), Classroom Environment, Second Language Learning
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Mohammadzadeh, Afsaneh – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study was carried out to find out if there was any significant difference in learning English collocations by learning with different dominant experiential learning styles. Seventy-five participants took part in the study in which they were taught a series of English collocations. The entry knowledge of the participants with regard to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Experiential Learning, Cognitive Style, Phrase Structure