Browsing by Subject: Languages
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Talking books for children's home use in a minority Indigenous Australian language context
Glenn Auld & Glenn Auld
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2007)
Members of the Kunibídji community are the traditional owners of the lands and seas around Maningrida, a remote community in Northern Australia. Most of the 200 members of the Kunibídji Community... More
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Introducing Programming Languages Through Data Acquisition Examples
Slavko Kocijancic, Tomaž Kušar & David Rihtarši, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, Department of Physics and Technology, Kardeljeva ploscad 16, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 3, No. 2008 (Jul 16, 2008)
Motivating students at low and upper secondary schools to learn programming languages is not an easy task for a teacher. Namely, programming is not and easy job to do and the results of first â?... More
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ItsLEADR: Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning English Articles
Rika Yoshii & Jacky Hernandez, California State University San Marcos, United States
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1732–1737
Abstract: ItsLEADR is an Intelligent Tutoring System for helping ESL students develop reasoning skills in choosing English articles such as “a/an” and “the.” The English article system is a... More
pp. 1732-1737
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A Content-based Course Integrating Language Learning, Student Autonomy and IT
Kurt Ackermann, Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College, Japan
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 730–733
The goal of the presentation is to introduce a course being taught in English, as opposed to a course about English, that also utilizes computer technology in the form of an LMS (Learning... More
pp. 730-733
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Using The Internet To Get Kids Interested (In Learning Languages)
Jennifer Tai Anne Leauga, Lynfield College, New Zealand
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 603–606
Using e learning for indigenous youth engaging youth in online learning taking paper out of the picture Audio and visual skills improved tasks which are specifically focused on viewing,... More
pp. 603-606
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Perceptions of EFL-College-students in Online Environments in Colombia
Sandra Vega Carrero, University of Kansas, Fulbright and SEARK College Arkansas, United States; Melania Piedra Barrera, University of Kansas, Fulbright, University of Costarica, United States; Christopher Cunningham, Seark College of Arkansas, United States
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 359–367
Many studies have been done related to traditional face-to-face teaching and the learning process of English as a foreign language. But little has been said about the use of online environments to ... More
pp. 359-367
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Unpacking the Concept of Design Thinking Through a Competency-based Curriculum
Job Rutgers, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Canada; Mi Song Kim, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Paul Epp, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Canada
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 310–321
Although increasing attention has been paid to design thinking in the context of new media and the globalizing knowledge economy, there is still little understanding of how design thinking could... More
pp. 310-321
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Open Educational Resources for Call Teacher Education: The iTILT Interactive Whiteboard Project
Shona Whyte, Euline Cutrim Schmid, Sanderin van Hazebrouck Thompson & Margret Oberhofer
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 27, No. 2 (2014) pp. 122–148
This paper discusses challenges and opportunities arising during the development of open educational resources (OERs) to support communicative language teaching (CLT) with interactive whiteboards (... More
pp. 122-148
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TESOL and Early Childhood Collaborative Inquiry: Joining Forces and Crossing Boundaries
Laura Baecher & Abigail M. Jewkes
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education Vol. 35, No. 1 (2014) pp. 39–53
Preparing early childhood educators to support effective instruction of English language learners (ELLs) is an important dimension of teacher preparation programs, yet often difficult to enact.... More
pp. 39-53
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"I Am Not a Person with a Creative Mind": Facilitating Creativity in the Undergraduate Curriculum through a Design-Based Research Approach
Denise Wood & Carolyn Bilsborow
Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 12, No. 1 (2014) pp. 111–125
Today's graduates need the skills to enable them to "persevere in the face of complexity and unresolvability" (McWilliam and Haukka 2008: 660), and to respond creatively in work... More
pp. 111-125
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Research in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University
Ben Fenton-Smith & Ian Walkinshaw
Language Teaching Vol. 47, No. 3 (July 2014) pp. 404–408
Griffith University is set across five campuses in south-east Queensland, Australia, and has a student population of 43,000. The School of Languages and Linguistics (LAL) offers programs in... More
pp. 404-408
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Research in Progress: Invited Colloquium--Foreign Languages in an Age of Globalization
Claire Kramsch
Language Teaching Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2013) pp. 425–427
With the advent of globalization and the increasingly multilingual and multicultural nature of nations, institutions and classrooms, the fundamental nature of foreign language instruction is... More
pp. 425-427
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The Distance Learning of Foreign Languages: A Research Agenda
Cynthia White
Language Teaching Vol. 47, No. 4 (October 2014) pp. 538–553
Research into the distance learning of languages is now established as a significant avenue of enquiry in language teaching, with evident research trajectories in several domains. This article... More
pp. 538-553
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The Selfie as a Pedagogical Tool in a College Classroom
Stacey Margarita Johnson, Stephen Maiullo, Elizabeth Trembley, Courtney L. Werner & Daniel Woolsey
College Teaching Vol. 62, No. 4 (2014) pp. 119–120
Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2013 is "selfie" (Oxford University Press, 2013). At its essence, the selfie is simply a digital self-portrait shared on the internet. As... More
pp. 119-120
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The Open Translation MOOC: Creating Online Communities to Transcend Linguistic Barriers
Tita Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn, Mirjam Hauck, Beatriz de los Arcos & Timothy Lewis
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2013, No. 1 (2013)
One of the main barriers to the reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER) is language (OLnet, 2009). OER may be available but in a language that users cannot access, so a preliminary step to reuse ... More
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Intercomprehension between Romance Languages and the Role of English: A Study of Multilingual Chat Rooms
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
International Journal of Multilingualism Vol. 11, No. 1 (2014) pp. 120–137
In this article, we focus on the role English plays in multilingual chat rooms in Romance Languages. We intend to demonstrate how English, even as forbidden language in this particular setting, is ... More
pp. 120-137
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Twitter and the Welsh Language
Rhys James Jones, Daniel Cunliffe & Zoe R. Honeycutt
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Vol. 34, No. 7 (2013) pp. 653–671
The emergence of new domains, such as the Internet, can prove challenging for minority languages. Welsh is a minority, regional language and is considered "vulnerable" by the United... More
pp. 653-671
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Multilingualism in European Workplaces
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Vol. 33, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 11–33
This state-of-the-art article includes a review of past and recent studies on multilingualism at work in European environments. One aim is to provide the reader with a cross-cultural picture of... More
pp. 11-33
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Deaf Parents of Cochlear-Implanted Children: Beliefs on Bimodal Bilingualism
Julie Cantrell Mitchiner
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 51–66
This study investigated 17 Deaf families in North America with cochlear-implanted children about their attitudes, beliefs, and practices on bimodal bilingualism (defined as using both a visual... More
pp. 51-66
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Interactive-GIS-Tutor (IGIST) integration: Creating a digital space gateway within a textbook-bound South African Geography class
Elfrieda Fleischmann, Cedar College of Education, South Africa; Christo Van der Westhuizen & Dirk Cilliers, North West University (NWU), South Africa
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT Vol. 11, No. 2 (Aug 31, 2015)
Currently there is a global drive among political and educational institutions to implement geographic information system (GIS) practice in secondary schools. However, Geography teachers worldwide,... More