Culture and Communication Online

2021 ◽  
pp. 1001-1016
Author(s):  
Kelly McKenna ◽  
Jill Zarestky ◽  
Melissa Anzlovar
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Internationalization Of Education ◽  
Diverse Student Population ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Culture And Communication

This chapter discusses the challenges and opportunities encountered by international and non-native language learners participating in distance education. With the growth of online learning and the internationalization of education, it is necessary to provide literature regarding best practices for educating a diverse student population. Culture and communication play a significant role in how students engage in their learning. This diversity is less evident in the online classroom resulting in potential misinterpretations rather than the valuing of distinctive cultures, experiences, and uniqueness of every individual learner. An exploration of diversity, identity, community, engagement, and linguistics are discussed in relation to international and non-native language speaking online learners.

Culture and Communication Online

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Kelly McKenna ◽  
Jill Zarestky ◽  
Melissa Anzlovar
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Internationalization Of Education ◽  
Diverse Student Population ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Culture And Communication

This chapter discusses the challenges and opportunities encountered by international and non-native language learners participating in distance education. With the growth of online learning and the internationalization of education, it is necessary to provide literature regarding best practices for educating a diverse student population. Culture and communication play a significant role in how students engage in their learning. This diversity is less evident in the online classroom resulting in potential misinterpretations rather than the valuing of distinctive cultures, experiences, and uniqueness of every individual learner. An exploration of diversity, identity, community, engagement, and linguistics are discussed in relation to international and non-native language speaking online learners.

Online Teaching Partnerships in Diverse Socio-Cultural Institutions

2010 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Julian Scheinbuks ◽  
Anthony A. Piña
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Heterogeneous Learning ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Distance Learning Technologies ◽  
Diverse Student Population ◽  
Experiential Backgrounds

In this chapter, the authors present the case of an inter-institutional online teaching partnership. The partnership has allowed faculty and students from racially and socio-economically diverse institutions to interact with each other through synchronous and asynchronous distance learning technologies. Courses were developed and team-taught by faculty from the three partner institutions. Faculty who were new to the online teaching environment collaborated with and were mentored by experienced online instructors. These instructors became more experienced in teaching a diverse student population and more comfortable and competent within technology-mediated teaching environments. Students from diverse socio-economic, racial and experiential backgrounds engaged in a more heterogeneous learning environment and learned how to be more effective online learners. Cross-discipline partnerships resulted in new courses being added to the curriculum. The inter-institutional online teaching partnership is a way to provide teaching and learning that is socially accessible, technologically adaptable, economically viable, and politically agreeable.

scholarly journals Undergraduate learning in psychiatry: can we prepare our future medical graduates better?

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Vincent Russell ◽  
Linda O’Rourke ◽  
Kieran C. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Medical Graduates ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Undergraduate Experience ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
Diverse Student Population

Irish medical schools attract an increasingly diverse student population and produce graduates who will practise in many parts of the world. There are particular implications in this for the planning and delivery of the undergraduate psychiatry curriculum. In all countries, mental health services struggle for equitable resourcing, and mental health care within general medical services remains relatively neglected. The traditional undergraduate psychiatry offering has been justifiably criticised for being excessively oriented towards secondary care when the vast majority of medical graduates will pursue careers in primary care or in specialties other than psychiatry. Recently published articles in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine address the current challenges and opportunities in providing an undergraduate experience that better prepares students for the mental health aspects of medical practice in a global context. We summarise and discuss these contributions and the recent Royal College of Psychiatrists publication Choose Psychiatry: Guidance for Medical Schools.

Assessment 360°: A Panoramic Framework for Assessing English Language Learners

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Lewis ◽  
Nancy Castilleja ◽  
Barbara J. Moore ◽  
Barbara Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Many Sources

This issue describes the Assessment 360° process, which takes a panoramic approach to the language assessment process with school-age English Language Learners (ELLs). The Assessment 360° process guides clinicians to obtain information from many sources when gathering information about the child and his or her family. To illustrate the process, a bilingual fourth grade student whose native language (L1) is Spanish and who has been referred for a comprehensive language evaluation is presented. This case study features the assessment issues typically encountered by speech-language pathologists and introduces assessment through a panoramic lens. Recommendations specific to the case study are presented along with clinical implications for assessment practices with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations.

Conquer and Score: A Word Formation Game for Language Learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Anealka Aziz Hussin ◽  
Tuan Sarifah Aini Syed Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
English Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Learning Path ◽  
Derivational Morphemes ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Formation Game

Engaging students in language activities can sometimes be challenging for language educators. One of the ways to engage students in language activities is through language games. Language games can motivate students to communicate, strengthens their ability to comprehend the language and enhance their problem-solving and cognitive skills. Language games also have a vast potential to increase engagement of the students, thus lead to the creation of the Conquer & Score: The Derivational Island. It is a word formation enrichment game catering to students learning lexicology and linguistics. The topic was chosen based on the result of an online quiz on the types of morphemes. The game focuses on the derivational morphemes used to form the English language words. The game requires knowledge of morphology as well as basic lexical analysis skills. The game provides educators a fun and engaging reinforcement activity for the students. Gamification elements used in the game such as rewards, flexible learning path and progress indicator offer a safe environment for competition, which can motivate students to outdo each other to win the game. This paper also highlights some important aspects of games in learning.

2. Using Creativity and Collaboration to Develop Innovative Programs That Embrace Diversity in Higher Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Helene Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Arts Integration ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Education ◽  
Diversity In Higher Education ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
Program Content ◽  
Diverse Student Population ◽  
Geographical Locations

This paper provides an example of an innovative solution to program development that addresses the diverse needs of teacher educators throughout various geographical locations in Florida, through a collaborative multi-university, muti-agency teacher training program funded by one collaborative grant.   Innovation is driven out of need, and I will discuss how I identified the needs at my university and then utilized creativity and collaboration to network and obtain the grant, which then facilitated, developed, and taught in a new M.Ed. program in Arts and Academic Interdisciplinary Education.  Program content and delivery were both planned around the diverse student population within the multi-university collaboration, with each university designing diverse programs to address the specific needs of their population but with the same concept of arts integration.  Collaboration also occurred within each university: the College of Arts and Science and the College of Education.  In addition, teachers were required to collaborate as coaches in their schools to train and support others in increasing arts integration in their schools.

Handbook of undergraduate second language education. Judith W. Rosenthal (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000. Pp. 400.

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-281
Author(s):  
D. Bradford Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Diverse Student Population

Judith Rosenthal has brought together a wide variety of articles on second language (L2) teaching and learning that will surely interest foreign language (FL) educators in U.S. universities who are struggling to increase or maintain enrollment in their courses or who are seeking new ideas to meet the needs and demands of an increasingly diverse student population. Rather than encourage individual language departments to continue their separate battles for survival, Rosenthal hopes to enhance the “integration” of FL programs in order “to better promote proficiency in more than one language” (p. 353). This volume clearly illustrates how teachers of various languages can collaborate and share experiences in order to find solutions to what are often very similar problems.

scholarly journals Postsecondary Systems, Massification, and the Research University

2017 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Philip G. Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Diverse Student Population

In the context of massification, few countries have made any comprehensive effort to create clearly defined and differentiated academic systems to serve new academic functions. This pursuit is important to ensure quality and to meet the wide range of needs of an increasingly diverse student population.

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