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Thompson, Nicholas Philip; Mutton, Trevor – Language Learning Journal, 2023
A number of factors among schoolchildren in England are currently contributing to poor attitudes towards speaking in the modern foreign languages (MFL) classroom. Although multiple explicit strategy-based instruction (SBI) intervention studies have appeared in recent years, very few studies have focused on its effect on oral skills and, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
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Railton, Nikki – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
This essay charts the experiences of a group of Year 10 students studying literature together. I challenge the current educational thinking that the literature classroom should consist exclusively of a set of canonised texts handed down from teacher to student. Instead I consider the importance of ensuring students have space to explore themselves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Story Telling, Grade 9
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Watson, Lucy – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The 'Global Student Collective' is a telecollaboration project on the International Foundation Year (IFY) programme at the University of Southampton. IFY students were connected with volunteers in Brazil, India, Hungary, and Italy online in order to find out more about their countries. The project required the students to exercise multiple…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning