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Shall We Receive More Refugees or Not? A Comparative Analysis and Assessment of Portuguese Adolescents' Arguments, Views, and Concerns
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Rapanta, Chrysi; Trovão, Susana – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2020
Fifty adolescents (7th and 10th grades) participated in a ten-session argumentation programme as part of which they produced dialogues and written texts on the topic of whether or not Portugal should receive more refugees. Applying social identity and intergroup threat theories as frameworks, causes for flight and seeking asylum were felt to be…
Descriptors: Refugees, Adolescents, Grade 7, Grade 10
Retention of Acquired Argumentation Skills and Nature of Science Conceptions
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Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The study aimed to investigate the retention of acquired argumentation and NOS conceptions among grade 10 students three months after the treatment. Thirty-six grade 10 students in two intact sections, randomly assigned into the Treatment and Comparison groups, participated in the study. The participants engaged in a treatment that lasted for four…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Persuasive Discourse, Skill Development, Scientific Principles
Properties of Spoken Persuasive Language Samples from Typically Developing Adolescents
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Heilmann, John; Malone, Thomas O.; Westerveld, Marleen F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: Persuasive communication skills are vital for achieving success in school, at work, and in social relationships. To facilitate assessment of persuasive discourse, we developed a clinically feasible persuasive speaking protocol and used it to compile a database of language samples. This database allowed us to describe the properties of…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Communication Skills, Adolescents, Grade 8
The Effects of a Metacognitive Strategy on the Persuasive Writing Skills of Adolescents with Hearing Impairment and Learning Disabilities
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Büyüknarci, Özlem; Grünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2019
In this research paper, we present the results from a single-case study examining the effects of the FIX strategy by Sherman and De La Paz (2015). This metacognitive instructional approach was implemented to improve the persuasive writing skills of tenth graders at high risk for school failure: students with comorbid hearing impairment and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Adolescents, Hearing Impairments, Learning Disabilities
Development and Implementation of the Science-Technology-Society Learning Unit to Enhance Grade 10 Student's Scientific Argumentation
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Pimvichai, Jirutthitikan; Buaraphan, Khajornsak; Yuenyong, Chokchai; Ruangsuwan, Chaiyapong – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2019
This case study aimed to enhance students' scientific argumentation through the Science-Technology-Society (STS) approach. There were two phases in this study: (a) Exploring the current situation of grade 10 students' scientific argumentation in real classrooms, and (b) Developing and implementing the STS learning unit to enhance students'…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Using Writing Tasks to Elicit Adolescents' Historical Reasoning
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; De La Paz, Susan – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
One path to improving adolescents' literacy skills is to integrate reading and writing into the content areas in which such work occurs. Although argumentative writing has been found to help students understand historical content and transform information, scholars do not know the influence of specific task structures on students' writing or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Grade 10, Grade 11