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Experiencias, Annotated Instructor's Edition
"Experiencias offers carefully sequenced activities, pre-tested in the authors' own classes, that focus on personal interaction and real communication. All face-to-face activities are easily adaptable for digital environments and writing assignments. Recycling Throughout both volumes, Experiencias incorporates activities that recycle previously learned material but with new topics, which allows students to continue mastering vocabulary and structures encountered earlier in the program"--
International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS) volume 5(4)
Papers in this issue: (1) Gregory L. Thompson: Coding-switching as style-shifting; (2) Manvender Kaur & Sarimah Shamsudin: Extracting noun forms: A lesson learnt; (3) Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan: Temperament as an indicator of language achievement; (4) Negmeldin Alsheikh & Hala Elhoweris: United Arab Emirates (UAE) high school students' motivation to read in English as a foreign language; (5) Farhat Jabeen, M. Asim Rai & Sara Arif: A corpus based study of discourse markers in British and Pakistani speech; (6) Diego Gabriel Krivochen: The Quantum Human Computer Hypothesis and Radical Minimalism: A brief introduction to Quantum Linguistics; (7) Abbas Ali Rezaee & Elham Kermani: Essay raters' personality types and rater reliability; (8) Kristen L. Pratt: Book Review: Jørgensen, J. N., (Ed.). (2010). Love Ya Hate Ya: The Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Language and Youth Identities. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars. [286pp; ISBN 1-4438-2061-X (hardcover)].
Innovative Strategies for Heritage Language Teaching
Heritage language (HL) learning and teaching presents particularly difficult challenges. Melding cutting-edge research with innovations in teaching practice, the contributors in this volume provide practical knowledge and tools that introduce new solutions informed by linguistic, sociolinguistic, and educational research on heritage learners. Scholars address new perspectives and orientations on designing HL programs, assessing progress and proficiency, transferring research knowledge into classroom practice, and the essential question of how to define a heritage learner. Articles offer analysis and answers on multiple languages, and the result is a unique and essential text--the only comprehensive guide for heritage language learning based on the latest theory and research with suggestions for the classroom.
Reparations
"Kwon and Thompson's eloquent reasoning will help Christians broaden their understanding of the contemporary conversation over reparations."--Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful approach to a vital topic."--Library Journal Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public conversations regarding the realities of racial division and inequalities have surged in recent years, so has the public outcry to work toward the long-awaited healing of these wounds. But American Christianity, with its tendency to view the ministry of reconciliation as its sole response to racial injustice, and its isolation from those who labor most diligently to address these things...
National Testing in Schools
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including: media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance pressures within school systems and on schools effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers and impacts on the experience of schooling for many young people, including those least advantaged. Using Australia as the case site for global concerns regarding national testing, this book will be an invaluable companion for education researchers, teacher educators, teacher education students and teachers globally.
Teaching Modernist Anglophone Literature
Teaching Modernist Anglophone Literature features fresh classroom approaches to teaching modernism, with an emphasis on pedagogy grounded in educational theory and contemporary digital media tools. It offers techniques for improving students’ close reading, critical thinking/writing, and engagement with issues of gender, race, class, and social justice. Discussions are raised of subjectivity, perception, the nature of language, and the function of art. Innovative project ideas, assignments, and examples of student work are offered in a special annex. This volume fills a gap in higher education pedagogy uniquely suited to the experimental nature of modernism. Madden and McKenzie’s inspiring volume can steer the teaching of modernist literature in creative, new directions that benefit both teachers and students. Contributors are: Susan Hays Bussey, William A. Johnsen, Benjamin Johnson, Mary C. Madden, Laci Mattison, Precious McKenzie, Susan Rowland, and Kelsey Squire.
Is There Life on Other Planets?
There is no gravity in space. The North Star never changes its position in the sky. Earth’s shadow causes the phases of the moon. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven using science? Let’s investigate seventeen statements about space and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still stump scientists! Find out whether astronauts really landed on the moon! Discover whether it’s true that the same side of the Moon is always dark! See if you can tell the difference between fact and fiction with Is That a Fact?
Regents' Proceedings
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Language assessment in multilingual settings: Innovative practices across formal and informal environments
This volume explores and addresses questions related to equitable access for assessment. It seeks to initiate a conversation among scholars about inclusive practices in language assessments. Whether the student is a second language learner, a heritage language learner, a multilingual language speaker, a community member, the authors in the present volume provide examples of assessment that do not follow a single universal or standardized design but an applicable one based on the needs and context of a given community. The contributors in this volume are scholars from different disciplines and contexts in Higher Education. They have created and proposed multiple lower-stakes assignments and a...
