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Full-Text Articles in Education
Translating Transformative Human Rights Education Through Visual Languages & Informal Spaces, Jazzmin Chizu Gota
Translating Transformative Human Rights Education Through Visual Languages & Informal Spaces, Jazzmin Chizu Gota
Master's Projects and Capstones
This project examines methods, theories, and practices of translating human rights education through multiple vernaculars. Developed as a workshop in sociocultural syntax deconstruction and an educational human rights education website focused on the domestic population of the US, the project focuses on localizing human rights concepts to the public vernacular of the country. Human rights education (HRE) and media and information literacy (MIL) are expanded and redefined as social literacy, or the ability to navigate and decode the present, complex realities that both HRE and MIL were developed to address. Reframing media and visual arts as an archive of past …
Digital Lessons For Enhancing Communicative Skills: A Handbook For Turkish Efl Teachers, Hale H. Demirel
Digital Lessons For Enhancing Communicative Skills: A Handbook For Turkish Efl Teachers, Hale H. Demirel
Master's Projects and Capstones
It is necessary for English teachers who are interested in exposing their students to the authentic and communicative use of English to have access to model instructional materials. This project sought to develop a handbook and an accompanying website for teachers of English working with intermediate ESL/EFL students at university level. The handbook includes two theme-based lessons that emphasize the development of communicative competence with the help of engaging free digital tools. The content of the handbook can be improvised or modified and adapted to meet the needs of unique teaching-learning situations in case of need.
Using American Pop Songs In Efl Classrooms, Mihea Oh
Using American Pop Songs In Efl Classrooms, Mihea Oh
Master's Projects and Capstones
This project has an aim to provide effective learning environment through music resources by reducing negative feeling. Student will get away from boring classroom and have some positive energy to boost motivation on language acquisition during learning activities because music is a power to make more fun atmosphere in the classrooms.
Teaching English In Saudi Arabia Through The Use Of Multimedia, Linah A. Sofi
Teaching English In Saudi Arabia Through The Use Of Multimedia, Linah A. Sofi
Master's Projects and Capstones
The purpose of this project is to design model lesson plans which will require the use of available modern technology and movies, songs and graphic novels, etc, to enhance students’ communicative competence and motivate critical thinking. In fact, The project will be constructed to implement the use of technology in the Saudi Arabian traditional classrooms. It will serve as a model for teachers to build their own lesson plans accordingly, using a communicative language teaching approach. Finally, it is hoped that with this handbook, Saudi Arabian English language learners will develop critical thinking skills and enhance higher communicative competence in …
Incorporating Community Cultural Wealth In A Community-Based Organization, Henriette S. Ako-Asare
Incorporating Community Cultural Wealth In A Community-Based Organization, Henriette S. Ako-Asare
Master's Projects and Capstones
This project examined how Hack the Hood, a Bay Area non-profit organization, successfully works with low-income youth of color in an outside of school context using technological skills to empower them. Critical Race Theory, community cultural wealth, and the many studies on academic success provided a model through which to examine the efficacy and cultural relevance of Hack the Hood programming using interviews and data already gathered on the organization. Based on the analysis of Hack the Hood and the promising findings related to how their work advance several of the tenets of the community cultural wealth model, this project …
Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills To Saudi Female Students At The University Levels: A Handbook For Teachers, Dina Sofi
Master's Projects and Capstones
By using innovative language teaching techniques and methodologies based on Communicative Language Teaching Approach and Multiple Intelligences Theory , the author of this project aimed to develop a handbook for EFL female teachers in Saudi Arabia. The handbook serves as a guide for teaching reading comprehension to Saudi female students at the university levels. The handbook illustrates different teaching methods that activate different learning modalities. It also include sample units with reading passages and activities that model teaching reading, integrate different language skills and enhance the students’ communicative skills.
The Effective Ways Of Teaching Vocabulary To Korean Students As A Second Language Learners, Sujin Kang
The Effective Ways Of Teaching Vocabulary To Korean Students As A Second Language Learners, Sujin Kang
Master's Projects and Capstones
The purpose of this project is to create a handbook for EFL teachers in South Korea to help them teach vocabulary more effectively and to help solve the following question: what are the most effective ways of vocabulary teaching by focusing on vocabulary knowledge and speaking production. The goal is to suggests activities that could narrow the gap between learners’ vocabulary knowledge and their communicative competence. For this purpose, this project involves the development of a handbook suggestions for an EFL curriculum and authentic teaching materials, including textbooks, PowerPoint slides and handouts. The primary audience is EFL teachers working with …
Using Computer Simulations As A Pre-Training Activity In A Hands-On Lab To Help Community College Students Improve Their Understanding Of Physics, Blanca Pineda
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using computer simulations as a pre-training activity to a hands-on lab to improve students’ understanding of induction topics in physics. The computer simulation activity was compared to an overview presentation. Conceptual understanding and spatial ability were measured. A two-group descriptive repeated measures design was implemented with a convenience sample of 35 community college physics students in the Bay Area. Participants were randomly assigned to a simulation group (n = 17) or a presentation group (n = 18). A 30-item spatial ability assessment was given to all participants one week …