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Foote, Jennifer A.; Holtby, Amy K.; Derwing, Tracey M. – TESL Canada Journal, 2011
This follow-up study reexamines the state of the teaching of pronunciation in ESL classes across Canada. The purpose of the survey was twofold: to gain a snapshot of current practices and to compare this with the picture of 10 years ago. We based the current work on Breitkreutz, Derwing, and Rossiter's (2001) survey asking teachers about…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Suprasegmentals, Foreign Countries, Followup Studies
Arnott, Stephanie – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2011
Over the last decade, almost 4,000 Canadian schools have moved to using the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) for core French (CF) instruction. Following researchers' recommendations (Brumfit, 1984; Lapkin, Mady, & Arnott, 2009; Larsen-Freeman, 1996, 2000; Prahbu, 1990), I am shifting the focus in this case study from product to process. In…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, French, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Bosacki, Sandra Leanne; Coplan, Robert J.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Hughes, Kathleen – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This study explored teachers' perceptions of shy children in the classroom during the elementary school grades. Seven teachers (1 male, 6 female) from elementary schools located in geographically diverse areas of Canada participated in semistructured telephone interviews that explored their perceptions of and experiences with shy children in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Hechter, Richard P.; Vermette, Laurie Anne – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2013
This paper examines the barriers to technology integration for Manitoban K-12 inservice science educators (n = 430) based on a 10-item online survey; results are analyzed according to teaching stream using the Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework. Quantitative descriptive statistics indicated that the leading barriers…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Elementary Secondary Education, Barriers, Science Education
Lopez, Ann E. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
In this article, I propose collaborative mentorship (CM) as a mentoring approach to support and sustain teachers in diversity and equity education. CM is theorized as a mentoring relationship grounded in critical dialog between mentor and mentee. Drawing on research conducted in a culturally, racially, linguistically, and socially diverse…
Descriptors: Mentors, Models, Equal Education, Student Diversity
Harding, Kelly; Parsons, Jim – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
In this paper, the authors review current practices in pre-service teacher education. They suggest that radical improvements are possible and that, if practiced, would help mediate many of the pressures young teachers face. To do so, the authors: 1) outline the experiences of young teachers to consider how teachers might thrive in a difficult…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Master Teachers
Taber, Nancy – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
This article describes a research study about the experiences of adult educators in which the stories of three of the participants were central in exploring the issue of social care in adult education. It proposes that the adult educators with a social care orientation in this study acknowledge the importance of, and work to provide for, human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Social Problems, Adult Educators
Yang, Chi Cheung Ruby – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This paper aims to present a small group of pre-service English teachers' perceptions towards the overseas field experience programme jointly organised by a university in Canada and the teacher trainer institute in Hong Kong. The study involved seven Canadian Year 3 and 4 B.Ed. TESL students who participated in the investigated eight-week overseas…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teacher Educators
Chao, Ining Tracy; Saj, Tami; Hamilton, Doug – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
The issue of quality is becoming front and centre as online distance education moves into the mainstream of higher education. Many believe collaborative course development is the best way to design quality online courses. This research uses a case study approach to probe into the collaborative course development process and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Distance Education, Online Courses, Internet
Hiebert, Al – Christian Higher Education, 2010
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has recently been challenging a growing roster of member universities of the Christian Higher Education Canada, Inc. (CHEC) that their institutional confessional statements of faith violate the CAUT policy on academic freedom, which CAUT regards as essential to what it means to be a university…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, Foreign Countries, Public Colleges
Borisov, Christine; Reid, Greg – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2010
This study investigated the perceived benefits of five adolescents with an intellectual disability functioning as tutors or teacher assistants in physical education. Their personal experiences and interpretations were ascertained by interviews, video recording, photographs, and field observations. An interpretative phenomenological analysis…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Mental Retardation, Tutors, Role Theory
Daniel, David B. – Teaching of Psychology, 2009
John Mitterer earned his PhD in cognitive psychology from McMaster University. Like many teaching professors, his career took an unexpected turn early on when he was hired to teach introductory psychology at Brock University, near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada. It was love at first lecture. He never left the course and now, as a full professor…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Recognition (Achievement), Foreign Countries, Cognitive Psychology
White, Joanna L.; Horst, Marlise – Language Awareness, 2012
This study is part of a larger investigation of the usefulness of instruction designed to raise cross-linguistic awareness in young Francophone learners of English in Quebec. In the research reported here, the focus is on cognates. Since previous research shows that learners typically fail to recognise many helpful similarities between words in a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Metalinguistics, Native Speakers, French
Maynes, Nancy; Allison, John; Julien-Schultz, Lynn – McGill Journal of Education, 2012
Experience may influence beliefs and beliefs may influence practices. Following these premises, we investigated teacher candidates' post experience reflections nine months after an international practicum where they taught for three weeks in rural Kenya. Teacher candidates were placed in non-governmental organization (NGO) sponsored schools on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Preservice Teachers, Nongovernmental Organizations
McNeil, Barbara – Studying Teacher Education, 2011
In Canada, most universities and their classrooms are often constructed as rational and neutral spaces where interaction between professors and students is free of the influences of race, class, and gender. Implicit in such a construction is the assumption that the university is a purely White space where students from the dominant racial group…
Descriptors: Caring, Race, Racial Identification, Foreign Countries