scholarly journals The perception of Nigerian students of German about serious games: Using ‘Secret of the Sky Disc’ as a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Olajumoke Oyedele ◽  
Waliyat Kola Aderoju
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
The University ◽  
Nigerian Students

The use of serious games is usually common, but digital games are not used in the teaching of German. This study aims to find out the attitude of students of German to the possible use of serious games in the teaching of German at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and their impression of the game ‘secret of the sky disc’ introduced by the Goethe Institute for the learning of German as a foreign language. Two different sets of questionnaires were administered to the students of German of OAU. The resulting data were analysed, discussed and conclusions were drawn. The results show the readiness of students of German for the use of digital games in teaching German at the university. The study adds to the limited literature on the use of serious games in teaching German as a foreign language   Keywords: German, Nigeria, perception, serious games, Obafemi Awolowo University, students.

scholarly journals Developing Students’ Cognition Culture for Successful Foreign Language Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01128
Author(s):  
Lyubov Pavlova ◽  
Yuliana Vtorushina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The University

This paper presents results of the research aimed at determining essential aspects of the development of university students’ cognition culture as a factor of successful foreign language learning. The authors define cognition culture as a complex of capabilities and skills, enabling students to look for, analyze, process, organize and critically assess information in the text, considering its historical and cultural value background. The investigation proves that a student’s cognition culture is manifested in his/her knowledge of national mentality, language, and cultural picture of the world as well as in the student’s skills of search, procession and critical assessment of information, the skills of analysis, comparison, generalization, cognitive motivation and aspiration for constant improvement of foreign language skills. The research determines the contents of the cognitive component of foreign language learning and works out a complex of teaching techniques for developing students’ cognition culture. The results prove that the application of the complex of special teaching techniques ensures effective development of the university students’ cognition culture for successful foreign language learning. Thus, students’ cognitive culture conditions their social adaptation and academic mobility.

scholarly journals Perception and Knowledge on Climate Change: A Case Study of University Students in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bezon Kumar ◽  
Arif Ibne Asad ◽  
Purnima Banik
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
University Students ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The University ◽  
Change Problem

This paper mainly investigates the perception and knowledge on climate change of the university students in Bangladesh. To carry out this study, primary data are collected from 370 students and uses several statistical methods. Perception and knowledge on the causes, effects and mitigation ways of climate change problems, and perceived duties to combat against climate change are analyzed with descriptive statistics. This paper finds that deforestation is the main cause of global warming and climate change and, the effects of climate change is very serious on people’s health. Majority portion of the students think that it is difficult to combat against climate change problem because it has already been too late to take action. Besides this study also finds that government is crucially responsible for combating against climate change problem. The study calls for government mainly besides industry and youths to aware people about the causes, effects, mitigation ways of climate change so that they can contribute to the sustainable development by mitigating climate change problem.

Students' Creativity and Entrepreneurial Learning for Developing Corporate Entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Giustina Secundo ◽  
Pasquale Del Vecchio ◽  
Giuseppina Passiante ◽  
Mirco Paoletto
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Italian Association ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
The University

The chapter aims to contribute at the discussion on the role of creativity in sustaining corporate entrepreneurship development by focusing on entrepreneurial learning in the context of incumbent enterprises. Empirical evidences coming from the case study of “Mimprendo” project (www.mimprendo.it), an initiative promoted by the Italian Conference of the University Colleges and the Italian Association of Young Entrepreneurs, are presented. Findings provides insights about the collaborative entrepreneurial learning as happening in the community composed by University students, entrepreneurs, and researchers to solve relevant managerial and entrepreneurial innovation's needs. Those evidences are at the basis of an integrated framework aimed to provide a coherent and a systematic view on the collaborative entrepreneurial learning processes to nurture, select, and implement creative ideas of universities students for sustaining the corporate entrepreneurship in incumbent companies.

scholarly journals INTÉGRATION DES TIC DANS LA DIDACTIQUE DU FLE À L’UNIVERSITÉ KENYATTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dismas Nkezabera
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
University System ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
The University ◽  
Actual Teaching

ICT offers new teaching and/or learning methods, especially in the field of foreign languages. These new technologies develop not only new teaching and learning environments, but also raise the issue of their pedagogical integration in teaching French as Foreign language. This article aims at addressing issues related to the contribution of ICT in an action-oriented perspective “task” and “learning scenario” (Mangenot, 2003). The objective is to identify the pitfalls faced by teachers in their attempt to integrate new technologies in teaching FFL. Our assumption is that ICTs provides the learner a new way of acquiring knowledge and skills. This case study raises a number of concerns with regard to integration of ICT in the teaching of FFL. How for instance do teachers of French integrate ICT in their actual teaching in order to motivate and empower their learners? And then, what are the obstacles to the integration of new  technologies in the university system of teaching? By way of a systematic approach, this study discusses an experiment with undergraduate and postgraduate students who are using learning scenarios in written production activities by following well-defined instructions.

scholarly journals Basic abilities a good university teacher should have: case study at the University of Lleida, Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (03) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Joaquin REVERTER-MASIA ◽  
◽  
Vincenç HERNANDEZ-GONZALEZ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
The University

In this article we evaluated the opinion of university students regarding the competences a good professor should have. The information was obtained from a survey distributed through digital devices to a total of 1.433 students from the University of Lleida, Spain. The two most important competences were to clearly explain the contents followed by motivational stimulation. The least valued were stimulation for participation and collaborative work, and coordination with professors. The highest evaluation was directed to communicative, interpersonal relationship, and methodological competences.

scholarly journals Analysis of Errors Made by Iraqi University Students in the Area of English Relativization System

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Abbas Naethel
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Relative Clause ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In ◽  
Learning English

This study aims at giving an account of an analysis of errors made by Iraqi university students in the area of English Relativization system. It focuses mainly on dealing with the investigation of the syntactic errors committed by Iraqi students in English relative clause. This causes a major problem for university students learning English as a foreign language. This comes from the students' interlingual and intralingual strategies. This also indicates that the university students seem to depend on the target language (TL) system rather than on that of the native language (NL). The technique used is an error analysis which Wilkins (1972) highlights its value in giving "greater understandings of the difficulties that learners face, and will perhaps assist in the development of pedagogic strategies." (p. 206). After analyzing and interpreting the errors made in the 100 students' compositions, some recommendations are given.

scholarly journals Open Badges to Encourage Class Representatives’ Reflection and Achievement-Sharing: A Case Study from Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Leadership And Change ◽  
Negotiation Problem

This case study describes how Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) worked in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services division to implement one of the first Open Badge schemes used in the UK higher education sector. Based on student feedback, EUSA developed an effective Open Badge model to recognise and reward students’ work as Class Representatives. The paper describes EUSA’s model of badges, badge criteria and implementation, before focusing on qualitative examples of the positive impact of this pilot project for both individual students and for the Students’ Association. It provides examples of how students reflected thoughtfully about the impact of their work as Class Representatives to develop skills in negotiation, problem solving, diplomacy, leadership, and change management. EUSA’s Open Badge scheme now rewards students for sharing their achievements. In turn, students’ Open Badge blog posts have helped EUSA to gain more meaningful insights into the broad work of Class Representatives and how students benefit when they engage fully with the role.

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