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Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-11
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Around the world, school districts and institutions are exploring ways to provide quality education to their students. With this, there is a deeper need for multiculturalism in classrooms, as many students are from varying cultures and speak different languages. Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective provides emerging research on the use of play, toys, and games as tools for meaningful multicultural and bilingual education. By highlighting topics such as cross-cultural psychology, classroom management, and second language acquisition, this publication explores the importance of culture in games and play. This book is an important resource for educators, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the role of intercultural education in society and modern approaches to early education.

Encouraging Transnational Learning Through Virtual Exchange in Global Teacher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 447

Encouraging Transnational Learning Through Virtual Exchange in Global Teacher Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-05-07
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The literature on higher education discusses globalization and internationalization in areas such as competencies, mobility, policies, and knowledge transfer. The COVID-19 pandemic and advancing educational technologies have prompted universities to rethink education, leading to innovative ways for teacher educators and students to connect and learn virtually. Educators and administrators are seeking to advance their teaching through intercultural partnerships and relevant models to improve the quality of education through international connections. The current global situation has also prompted the need to further knowledge of communication technologies. Encouraging Transnational Learning T...

International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-15
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In the age of information, an essential priority in the context of international education is the development of language learning and its inconsistencies. The gap between language and education has intermittently grown through time, with mistaken assumptions about how linguistic shortcomings are being solved around the world. Research on comparative educational approaches to teaching verbiage and the foundation of future language development are instrumental in positively impacting the global narrative of dialectal education. International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of second language teaching as well as social developments regarding intercultural learning. While highlighting topics including curricular approaches, digital competence, and linguistic disparities, this book is ideally designed for language instructors, linguists, teachers, researchers, public administrators, cultural centers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the latest advancements of multilingual education.

Handbook of CALL Teacher Education and Professional Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 561

Handbook of CALL Teacher Education and Professional Development

This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of current trends in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) teacher education and professional development across the globe. It highlights theories and practices in CALL teacher education and professional development in five sections, such as English language teaching, including pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, teacher educators, material developers, course designers and researchers. It explores the role of CALL teacher education and professional development in many underexplored countries such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It stresses the critical role of professional development programs, from the use of ...

Promoting Inclusive Education Through the Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues in the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Promoting Inclusive Education Through the Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues in the Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-20
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As diversity based on gender identity and sexual orientation remains a target for discrimination, exclusion, and violence in multiple contexts, it is necessary to advocate for comprehensive and quality sexuality and gender education to achieve equity and equality. This co-edited book provides a comprehensive reflection on how education professionals can foster inclusive education in terms of diversity based on gender identity and sexual orientation that impacts positively both LGBTIQ+ and non-LGBTIQ+ students. Promoting Inclusive Education Through the Integration of LGBTIQ+ Issues in the Classroom offers theoretical considerations and practical examples of how LGBTIQ+ issues can be addressed...

Handbook of Research on Bilingual and Intercultural Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 550

Handbook of Research on Bilingual and Intercultural Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03-27
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As education becomes more globally accessible, the need increases for comprehensive education options with a special focus on bilingual and intercultural education. The normalization of diversity and the acclimation of the students to various cultures and types of people are essential for success in the current world. The Handbook of Research on Bilingual and Intercultural Education is an essential scholarly publication that provides comprehensive empirical research on bilingual and intercultural processes in an educational context. Featuring a range of topics such as education policy, language resources, and teacher education, this book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, language learning professionals, principals, administrators, academicians, policymakers, researchers, and students.

Computer-Assisted Language Learning in the Global South
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

Computer-Assisted Language Learning in the Global South

This cross-cultural edited volume presents a rich tapestry of experiences, challenges, and innovations, focusing on assessment, course and curriculum design, approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in the Global South. Comprising chapters from a broad swathe of international contexts, the book presents varied themes in CALL such as inclusion and social justice, artificial intelligence, barriers to online language teaching, skills-based practices, and professional development. By shedding light on the underrepresented research contexts in the Global South, a number of current innovations in these contexts at theoretical and emp...

Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-01
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Through examples of literary and audiovisual translation teaching practices, Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education places a novel emphasis on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) synergising the latest research advancements in EDI and translation curricula. The contributors revisit how languages and translation are currently taught and explore the relevance of EDI values from an interdisciplinary perspective. The chapters contain proposals of best teaching practices and teacher training guidance alongside examples of research-led teaching scenarios. There is a twofold rationale behind this volume: firstly, identifying links between literary and audiovisual translati...

International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-26
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Through different approaches like toys and play, children explore and know the rules and symbols of their communities and recreate roles and situations that reflect their sociocultural and 21st century plurilingual world. As a result, they learn how to subordinate desires to social rules, cooperate with others willingly, and engage in socially appropriate behavior. When they are evaluated together psychologically, there is a current need for action to increase the amount and quality of play provided to children. Since discrepancies are observed between urban and rural areas, as well as among different cultures, there is also a need for a research initiative where cultures can learn and take ...

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-08
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The ability to effectively communicate with individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds is an invaluable asset. Learning a second language proves useful as students navigate the culturally diverse world; however, studying a second language can be difficult for learners who are not immersed in the real and natural environment of the foreign language. Also, changes in education and advancements in information and communication technologies pose a number of challenges for implementing and maintaining sound practices within technology-enhanced language learning (TELL). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning provides information on educational tech...