scholarly journals Exploring the pandemic through language learning and multicultural studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Stephan Caspar
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This piece offers a reflection on how language learning and multicultural studies during the pandemic have highlighted the potential to help communities draw parallels with, and face wider issues concerning, minorities within a challenged society. Through storytelling, a novel approach to teaching and learning helps students find their voice and become active agents of change. A review of teaching and learning methods may bring about improvements both in academia and individual circumstances to help bridge the gap between loneliness and the need to be part of a wider social community. This article reiterates the importance of language learning, cultural understanding, and identity as useful employability skills for the new global graduates to support, rebuild, and unite communities especially in challenging times.

Gaeilge Gaming

2019 ◽  
pp. 1093-1110
Author(s):  
Gene Dalton ◽  
Ann Devitt
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Gaming Technology ◽  
Team Interactions ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Central Statistics Office

In the 2011 census almost one in three Irish teenagers claimed to be unable to speak Irish (Central Statistics Office, Ireland, 2012), despite the language being taught daily in school. The challenges facing the Irish language in schools are complex and multifaceted. The research reported here attempts to address some of these challenges by adopting a novel approach to teaching Irish to primary school children using an online detective game. This paper details how a group of 10 year old children (n = 17) report their experience of the game, and how this compares to its proposed affordances for language learning. Overall, the children responded very positively, and identified significant motivational factors associated with the game, such as rewards, positive team interactions, challenge and active learning. Their feedback demonstrates that this use of gaming technology has the potential to support children's language learning through creating a language community where users are motivated to use Irish in a meaningful way.

scholarly journals TOWARDS E-LEARNING IN BASIC SCHOOLS DURING COVID-19: INSIGHTS FROM GHANAIAN TEACHERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naa Kai Amanor-Mfoafo ◽  
Kwamina Kurefi Edonu ◽  
Olivia Akrofi ◽  
Ebenezer Nortei Dowuona
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching

In the wake of the current closure of schools in Ghana, basic schools have been tasked to deliver teaching and learning using e-learning. This study seeks to explore the readiness of teachers in Ghanaian basic schools to undertake e-learning. Using an online questionnaire, data was collected from 108 teachers in both private and public basic schools in Ghana. A factor analysis was conducted to identify the challenges that influenced the ability of basic school teachers to teach using e-learning. The study findings indicated that a majority of the teacher participants preferred face-to-face teaching as compared to online teaching. The study recommends that basic schools adopt a blended approach to teaching where teachers can combine both face-to-face methods with e-learning methods. The study contributes to discussions on the transition from conventional teaching methods to E-learning methods in educational institutions across Ghana. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0770/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals DIDACTIC POTENTIAL OF THE INTEGRATED APPROACH TO TEACHING FUTURE PROGRAMMERS PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya I. Morska ◽  
Joanna Skibska ◽  
Volodymyr T. Sulym ◽  
Vadym V. Masztalir
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Study Process

In the XXI century, the age of information technologies, traditional boarders between disciplines and subjects are being erased. This process gives the floor for new sciences to appear which integrate the qualities of several traditional for XX century disciplines. Students need to use the advantages of discipline merging, which raises the problem of integrated teaching and learning, especially when it comes to professionally oriented foreign language learning in computer and Internet mediated classrooms. The article deals with theoretical basis of integrated approach implementation in the formation of foreign language communicative competence to future programmers. The structure of integration in the classroom settings has been substantiated in the paper as well as the types and levels of possible integration patterns. The theoretical findings have been empirically verified in the study process of three educational institutions to prove the efficacy of the suggested pedagogical procedures.

Students' Evaluation of a MOODLE Resource in the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

2010 ◽  
pp. 670-686
Author(s):  
Titi Fola-Adebayo
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Significant Difference

This chapter presents an exploratory study on students’ evaluation of a MOODLE teaching and learning resource (the Wiki in this case) in the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. 85 students (11 female and 74 male) were guided in the use of a wiki website for language learning in a context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Data on their opinions on the resource was collected through questionnaires and feedback on the wiki. T-test was employed in data analysis and the results revealed that in spite of the challenges encountered in using the website, the students’ attitude towards using it was positive as they were enthused about using the novel approach for research and learning purposes. The results also indicated that there was no significant difference between the opinions of male and female respondents. Challenges associated with the use of the resource are highlighted and recommendations presented.

scholarly journals A Novel Approach to Integrated Science Teaching and Learning in a Selected Ghanaian Junior High School

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Yao Klutse ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
High Order ◽  
Science Teaching And Learning ◽  
Integrated Science ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Learning Behaviours

The study was about a novel approach to Integrated Science teaching and learning in a selected Ghanaian junior high school. In this study, the approach to teaching and learning Integrated Science has been made entirely new and meaningful in the sense that the four learning behaviours (acquisition of knowledge, comprehension, application of knowledge and experimental skills) which constitute profile dimensions were incorporated into the objective-stating, lesson-delivery and assessment of lessons. The researcher made use of profile dimensions in preparing lesson plans, taught students with the new strategy and assessed the impact of the new approach on students in terms of teaching and learning of science. The students were highly interested in answering low order question. About 80% of the questions were high order questions which were poorly answered. They actually showed very little interest in answering high order questions. However, as the weeks went by and the approach to teaching the new strategy was improved, students’ interests were aroused and sustained leading to students demonstrating high ability to answer high order questions conveniently. By the end of the study, the students were able to set up and conduct experiments, observe the outcome and draw their own conclusions. The students could classify items based on their characteristics and discuss issues (like balanced diet) and outline the effect of malnutrition in animals. Students’ scientific drawings were neater and clearer with less woolen lines. The implication of the finding is that, with these learning behaviours and skills, students could do analytical thinking and have the capacity to apply their knowledge to problems and issues.

scholarly journals Case Based Approach in Pharmacology: A Novel Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indrajit Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Basic Science ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Oriented Approach

Case Oriented approach in Pharmacology will be helpful to know/study all the basic science in an integrated manner. This approach is a better approach so that the medical student will get the clinical scenario in the beginning of the topic. It will be also be effective tool for the students to solve the problem based questions and also they will learn the role of the clinical pharmacology too. Thus case oriented approach in teaching pharmacology will make Pharmacology more interesting subject.  Recently based on certain evidences it was found out that basic science medical curriculum is based   on clinical approach in which pharmacology is one integrated component in a holistic approach to teaching and learning methodology. One major problem of teaching pharmacology is that a student doesn’t see patients in basic science teaching and learning method. This problem can be solved to some extent by this novel case oriented approach in Pharmacology.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v4i1.10125 Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 2014;4 (1): 301-305

Gaeilge Gaming

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene Dalton ◽  
Ann Devitt
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Gaming Technology ◽  
Team Interactions ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Central Statistics Office

In the 2011 census almost one in three Irish teenagers claimed to be unable to speak Irish (Central Statistics Office, Ireland, 2012), despite the language being taught daily in school. The challenges facing the Irish language in schools are complex and multifaceted. The research reported here attempts to address some of these challenges by adopting a novel approach to teaching Irish to primary school children using an online detective game. This paper details how a group of 10 year old children (n = 17) report their experience of the game, and how this compares to its proposed affordances for language learning. Overall, the children responded very positively, and identified significant motivational factors associated with the game, such as rewards, positive team interactions, challenge and active learning. Their feedback demonstrates that this use of gaming technology has the potential to support children's language learning through creating a language community where users are motivated to use Irish in a meaningful way.

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