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Rayyan, Mohammad; Zidouni, Siham; Abusalim, Nimer; Alghazo, Sharif – Cogent Education, 2023
This descriptive study aims to examine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' experiences in a study abroad context and the adaptation strategies they use to deal with academic and socio-cultural challenges. It also aims to show how the students' experiences and resilience affect their self-efficacy. The data are collected from nine…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Self Efficacy, Study Abroad, English (Second Language)
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Fletcher, Andrew – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
A version of education conditioned by a focus on measurable outcomes contributes to the unhappiness of children. Using an approach that relates the current crisis in mental health to Simone Weil's concept of affliction, I argue that culture, suffering from its own instrumentalisation as cure, needs itself to be healed. Using a case study of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Psychological Patterns, Outcomes of Education, Educational Philosophy
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McLean Davies, Larissa; Truman, Sarah E.; Buzacott, Lucy – Gender and Education, 2021
Despite ongoing attempts to disrupt the white cis-hetero-masculine nature of the literary canon the secondary school English curriculum remains tethered to its lineage. In conversation with feminist new materialist scholars who argue that the stories we read and write have material affects on who we are becoming, this paper argues that in order to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English Curriculum, English Literature
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Gerlier, Valentin – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2019
This article explores the notion of eros and education by turning to erotic literature: specifically, Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost." In this early play, Shakespeare portrays a sophisticated Renaissance world in which the conventions of literary education overtly affirm and celebrate eros whilst covertly denying its relational and…
Descriptors: English Literature, Educational Philosophy, Drama, Teaching Methods
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Hannes Rall; Emma Harper – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Our paper seeks to investigate how mediation using emerging technologies can increase student engagement within the context of teaching English Literature in Singapore. Through a discussion of our ongoing project to create an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" as an animated game in virtual reality, we focus upon the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning, English Literature, Computer Games
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Yeting Hu; Chuanzhi Fang; Xin He; Jinhua Wu – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
This study addresses the problems in traditional English literature teaching methods for Chinese English majors, proposing a new teaching approach based on smart education concepts to enhance learning effectiveness. An evaluation of a semester-long reform in teaching methods is conducted using a quantitative methodology. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Literature, Learning Analytics, Outcomes of Education
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Leláková, Eva; Belúchová, Andrea – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The sentence structure complexity and clause positioning (Staveley, 2013) represent the striking features of the writing style of the 19th century British fiction writers. The present syntactic study brings detailed quantitative and qualitative syntactic analyses of peripheral sentence elements, sentence (stance) adverbials, occurring in the…
Descriptors: Nineteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Novels, Sentences
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Tsang, Art; Paran, Amos; Lau, Wilfred W. F. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Set against the backcloth of increasing recognition and attention to literature in foreign language education (FLE) globally, this article reports part of a large-scale study of 1,190 secondary-level learners' views of the benefits of literature, as instantiated by short stories (ShS) and poems and songs (PS) in their English-as-a-foreign-language…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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O'Grady, Rhiannon Julia; Cassany, Daniel; Knight, Janine – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This article is an exploration of two podcast composition projects carried out in English literature classes at a private, not for profit secondary school in Catalunya. Despite a growing body of research that indicates the richness of meaning making offered by multimodality, written texts remain central in many formal educational settings. Factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Private Schools, English Literature
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Talbot, Daniel – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
There is a growing consensus that the study of literature in English secondary schools is suffering a crisis: a fixation with knowledge and facts, a loss of creativity, and a denigration of students' own experience, to name a few. This article argues that this is, in part, a result of the conception of culture embedded in the current National…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English Literature, Cultural Awareness, Secondary School Students
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McLean Davies, Larissa; Buzacott, Lucy – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
English remains the only subject mandated throughout the years of schooling in Australia. The compulsory nature of this subject reflects its responsibility for the personal, and literate, development of students. Literature has often been charged with the social and moral dimensions of English. Increasingly, in Australia and elsewhere, literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, English Literature, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Li, Fang – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Increasing interaction in large online classes is a challenge that many teachers are facing in the post-pandemic era. This study, rooted in Garrison et al.'s CoI (Community of Inquiry) framework, employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore what a teacher can do in large online literature classes to promote interaction by way of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Communities of Practice, Inquiry, English Literature
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Maria Prozesky; Naomi Nkealah – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2024
We teach English literature in South Africa, to third- or fourth-language English speakers. Increasingly dissatisfied with the effectiveness of our pedagogy under conditions of massification, we seek to agitate propositions about our students' reading and what these propositions means for our pedagogy. Drawing on narrative theory we analyse our…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Portfolio Assessment, Literacy, Reading Instruction
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Gaby Bedetti – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2024
The decline in English majors has energized instructors to upskill for the post-COVID Gen Z student. Toward that end, this small-scale (n=20), one-semester study of an upper-division literature class identifies the preferred learning styles of English majors at a public comprehensive regional university in Kentucky. The participants represent…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Declining Enrollment, Teaching Styles, Teacher Attitudes
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Amini, Asieh; Weisi, Hiwa – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Given the significance of willingness to communicate and its integral role in the field of foreign/second language acquisition (F/SLA), this quantitative study intends to examine the relationship between sensory emotioncy types and teacher immediacy with second language learners' willingness to communicate (WTC).…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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