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Andrews, Urkovia – Communication Teacher, 2013
The purpose of this exercise is to get students to relay and connect with the impact of ethics on public relations research. Students will begin to realize and analyze how their personal ethics influence their professional ethics choices. This is conceptualized through the completion of the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)…
Descriptors: Television, Programming (Broadcast), Ethics, Research
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Claxton, Laura J.; Ponto, Katelyn C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2013
Children's television programming frequently uses interactive characters that appear to directly engage the viewers. These characters encourage children to answer questions and perform actions to help the characters solve problems in the televised world. Children readily engage in these interactions; however, it is unclear why they do so. To…
Descriptors: Computers, Interaction, Programming (Broadcast), Childrens Television
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Sullins, Jeremiah; Howard, Tiffany; Goza, Kimberly – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate various textual characteristics of popular children television shows. More specifically, researchers examined both the quantity and quality of question asked (i.e., question training). Furthermore, several readability components among the different shows (e.g., narrativity, syntactic simplicity,…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Children, Television Research, Programming (Broadcast)
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Ina, Lekkai – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
Series of international studies have shown that subtitled television programs provide a rich context for foreign language acquisition. This study investigated whether incidental language acquisition occurs from watching a television program with/without subtitles. Children in the experimental conditions watch: (a) a 15 minute snapshot of a well…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Television Viewing
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Koyama, Nobuko – Applied Language Learning, 2016
This case study presents a description and outline of a dubbing activity in which students utilized their basic linguistic skills holistically. Authentic materials such as television dramas and feature films are "a rich repository of various speech acts, lexicon and linguistic emotivity" (Koyama, 2009) and as such have the potential to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Upright, Craig – Teaching Sociology, 2015
Many contemporary students are unfamiliar with the cultural history of television programming in the United States. References to iconic series that represented significant milestones in minority representations and discussions of racial issues--such as "I Spy," "Julia," "All in the Family," or even "The Cosby…
Descriptors: Sociology, Cultural Influences, United States History, Minority Groups
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Huang, Yong-Ming; Chen, Chao-Chun; Wang, Ding-Chau – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Ubiquitous learning receives much attention in these few years due to its wide spectrum of applications, such as the T-learning application. The learner can use mobile devices to watch the digital TV based course content, and thus, the T-learning provides the ubiquitous learning environment. However, in real-world data broadcast environments, the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Educational Television
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Migdadi, Fathi; Badarneh, Muhammad A.; Momani, Kawakib – Applied Linguistics, 2012
This study investigates complaints and complaint responses in interactions between local citizens and the hosts of a live two-hour radio phone-in in Jordan devoted to receiving and handling complaints of a public nature. Using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness model, the study examines the functions and patterns of complaints and the types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Radio, Programming (Broadcast), Telecommunications
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Jubas, Kaela – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2013
In this article, the author outlines an analysis of the American show "Grey's Anatomy" as an example of how popular culture represents identity and the process of professional identity construction in a medical workplace, particularly the surgical service of a large urban hospital. In discussing identity, she connects professional identity to…
Descriptors: Television, Programming (Broadcast), Popular Culture, Surgery
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Cashion, Carol Jackson – English Journal, 2011
In 1971, the year that "Masterpiece Theater" premiered on WGBH, the public television station in Boston, the author's family lived in London for the summer. Her life that summer had the taste and texture of an English novel, and she loved every minute of it, which might explain not only her choice to become an English teacher but also her lifelong…
Descriptors: Public Television, Programming (Broadcast), Television Viewing, Teaching Guides
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Barry, Adam E.; Piazza-Gardner, Anna K. – Journal of Health Education Teaching, 2012
This teaching idea presents a heuristic example using reality television as a tool for applying health behavior theory. It utilizes The Biggest Loser (TBL) to provide "real world" cases depicting how individuals progress through/experience the Transtheoretical Model (TTM). Observing TBL contestants provides students practice grounding…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Health Education, Programming (Broadcast), Models
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Sawin, Kathleen J.; Brei, Timothy J. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
Health risk behaviors (HRBs) in adults with spina bifida such as poor diet, reduced physical activity, increased television viewing time, and substance abuse often have their genesis in early childhood. They are potentially preventable but if not addressed aggressively may continue to progress across the lifespan. Findings from a population-based…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Substance Abuse, Adolescents, Congenital Impairments
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Taylor, Laramie D. – Death Studies, 2012
Based on terror management theory, it was hypothesized that media choices may be affected by the salience of death-related thoughts. Three experiments with samples of undergraduate students were conducted to investigate whether such a process would affect preferences for law and justice television programming. In the first experiment (n = 132),…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Programming (Broadcast), Law Enforcement, Television Viewing
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Nathanson, Amy I.; Aladé, Fashina; Sharp, Molly L.; Rasmussen, Eric E.; Christy, Katheryn – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the relations between television exposure during the preschool years and the development of executive function (EF). Data were gathered from 107 parents of preschoolers who provided information on children's television viewing, background television exposure, exposure to specific televised content, and the age at which…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Television Viewing, Mass Media Effects, Preschool Children
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Gilbert, Lisa – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2014
Tackling challenging topics in history can be difficult, and sometimes teachers struggle to find age-appropriate ways to help students confront painful stories from the past. About four years ago, this author spearheaded a focus group with the purpose of taking on such a challenge. In the initial meetings, members of the group (four educators from…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Slavery, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
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