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Zhang Leimbigler, Sheri – Online Submission, 2014
This article iterates the results of integrating literacy into SLA (Second Language Acquisition) from a constructivist's perspective in preparing syllabi, pedagogical activities and testing. The observation of Mandarin-learning students' performance and conversations with them suggest that introducing certain vocabulary, expressions and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literacy, Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology
Calhoun, Chantae M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Community colleges educate almost half of all American undergraduates. These students include but are not limited to under-prepared high school graduates, and individuals who are working full-time while attending school, as well as students of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds. With such a diverse student population, science…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Science Instruction, Personal Narratives, Science Curriculum
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Guth, Sarah; Helm, Francesca – ELT Journal, 2012
Communicating and collaborating in online contexts can be quite different from face-to-face situations and requires students to acquire multiple literacies in addition to foreign language skills and intercultural communicative competence. This paper looks at how the development of multiliteracies can be included in the EFL classroom through the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multiple Literacies
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Stille, Saskia; Prasad, Gail – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the potential contribution of a multimodal approach to English language teaching and learning in the educational context. Collaborating with English as a second language (ESL) and classroom teachers to explore ways to improve pedagogy in multilingual, multicultural schools, the authors discovered many…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Personal Narratives
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Kingsley, Tara L.; Grabner-Hagen, Melissa M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015
This article showcases the use of gamification as a means to turn an existing curriculum into a game-based learning environment. The purpose of this article is to examine how gamification, coupled with effective pedagogy, can support the acquisition of 21st-century skills. Gamifying content allows students to earn experience points, badges, and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Effectiveness, Skill Development, Rewards
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Lindner, Rachel; Méndez Garcia, Maria del Carmen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
Positioned against the background of the Council of Europe's interest in developing intercultural competence through education, the study presented in this paper investigates the impact on intercultural visual literacy of the Council of Europe's "Images of Others--An Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media"…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Visual Literacy, Preservice Teachers
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Yamada-Rice, Dylan – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2014
This article considers the impact of the increasing use of the visual mode in texts found in urban landscapes on two 3-year-olds' understanding of communication practices. The data discussed are taken from a study into a group of 3- to 6-year-olds' interaction with and emerging comprehension of the visual mode and its connection to writing in…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Toddlers, Visual Perception, Photography
Hamilton, Buffy J. – School Library Monthly, 2012
Since 2009, the author has been using an activity that she calls "book tasting" to help teens select books for independent reading assignments. While she is sure she is not the first to do this kind of activity, the term "book tasting" seems to appeal to the teens. Book tasting has been extremely successful in pairing up students with texts that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, World Literature, Multiple Literacies, Reading Assignments
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Costello, Adrienne – Voices from the Middle, 2012
Young adolescents are immersed in 21st century literacies in their daily lives, and they bring into schools a level of appreciation and expertise that often goes untapped. This article presents an eighth-grade English classroom's experience with digital video composing and informal classroom drama as multimodal literacy practices. Students in this…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Drama, Teaching Methods, Adolescents
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Ajayi, Lasisi – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2013
The research objective of this study is to examine junior/high school ELA teachers' perceptions of and integration of new media into instruction. Sixty-two junior/high school ELA teachers in a southern California county responded to a five-point Likert-type attitudinal scale and provided written responses to open-ended questions about their…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Language Arts, School Districts, Junior High School Teachers
Willett, Kara E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A new vision of literacy education that involves moral, political, and cultural decisions about the literate practices needed to enhance both peoples' agency over their life trajectories and communities' intellectual, cultural and semiotic resources is essential for reframing literacy to encompass the multiple modalities and literacies of the 21st…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Theory Practice Relationship, Literacy Education, Curriculum Design
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Welsh, M. Ann; Dehler, Gordon E. – Journal of Management Education, 2013
In this article, we argue for advancing grounded curricula, which explicitly link theory and pedagogy, and executing them in authentic and multidisciplinary settings as a means to facilitate student growth into integrative learners. We describe the development of a student-centered learning experience that combines elements of critical management…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Criticism
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Hughes, Janette Michelle; Morrison, Laura Jane; Hoogland, Cornelia – in education, 2014
Our study concerns adolescents using poetry writing as an interrogative and creative means of shaping and creating "voices" or "identities." Toronto-based high school students were challenged to be creators (rather than solely consumers) of available social practices within a digital landscape using mobile devices and social…
Descriptors: Poetry, Adolescent Development, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Epstein, Shira Eve – Teachers College Press, 2014
This practical resource shows teachers how to enact robust forms of civic education in today's schools. Both instructive and thought-provoking, it will inspire teachers to craft curricula addressing a wide range of genuine civic problems such as those related to racial discrimination, environmental damage, and community health. Dividing civic…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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de Mejía, Anne-Marie – Language and Education, 2017
Despite Colombia's official recognition of its ethnic and cultural diversity, it has yet to develop in practice an inclusive educational vision involving the recognition of diversity, as well as promoting the country's insertion within the global market. Garcia et al. acknowledge the importance of "cultivating" students' diverse…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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