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Heikkinen, Hannu M. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: In this article I will give an example of a linguistic program I have been doing with sixth form college students from Finland and the Netherland and link this action research to the meaning of drama education, and of the potential of devised drama as a part of civic Education. Method: I will explain the theory of devised drama, then I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Drama, Citizenship Education
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Kyppö, Anna – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The complexity of language learning may be expanded to learning the languages belonging to the same language family, for example, Slavic languages. This paper reports on the reflection-on action research aimed at the increase of learners' multicultural competence and enhancement of critical thinking at the interdisciplinary, blended course of…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Cultural Awareness, Blended Learning, Management Systems
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Saaristo, Pekka – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This article presents and discusses views on grammar and its role in formal language learning amongst Finnish university students. The results are based on a questionnaire which was distributed to students at the University of Jyväskylä as part of institutional action research. The background to the project was a feeling amongst some teachers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, College Students, Questionnaires
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Kyppö, Anna; Natri, Teija; Pietarinen, Margarita; Saaristo, Pekka – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This reflective paper presents a new course concept for multilingual interaction, which was piloted at the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre in the spring of 2014. The course, implemented as part of the centre's action research, is the result of a development process aimed at enhancing students' multilingual and multicultural academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Pilot Projects
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Isomottonen, Ville; Tirronen, Ville – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
Lecturing is known to be a controversial form of teaching. With massed classrooms, in particular, it tends to constrain the active participation of students. One of the remedies applied to programming education is to use technology that can vitalize interaction in the classroom, while another is to base teaching increasingly on programming…
Descriptors: Programming, Active Learning, Independent Study, Teaching Methods
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Hakkarainen, Paivi; Saarelainen, Tarja; Ruokamo, Heli – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper reports an action research case study in which a traditional lecture based, face to face "Network Management" course at the University of Lapland's Faculty of Social Sciences was developed into two different course versions resorting to case based teaching: a face to face version and an online version. In the face to face…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Video Technology, Online Courses, Foreign Countries