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Salomão, Ana Cristina Biondo – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Virtual Exchange (VE) has grown out of telecollaboration, which originated in the language-teaching field and has now expanded to all areas of knowledge as a collaborative methodology to enhance learning and fostering soft skills and intercultural competences. VE has recently received growing interest from higher education institutions due to the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
The diversity of vulnerability conditions, that have prevented children and adolescents from exercising their right to school education, also produces a diversity of cultural references of the public that comes to Basic Education programs for Youth and Adults in developing countries. This diversity often forges appropriation processes of numeracy…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Syntax, Semantics
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Pessoa, Rosane Rocha; de Urzeda Freitas, Marco Tulio – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
This article is based on the conception of language teaching as a liberatory practice. Drawing on some principles of critical pedagogy (Ellsworth, 1992; Freire, 2005; hooks, 1994; Norton & Toohey, 2004), critical applied linguistics (Pennycook, 1990, 2001), critical language teaching (Ferreira, 2006; Pennycook, 1999), and critical language…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Salomão, Ana Cristina Biondo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
This article presents some of the results of a qualitative research project about the influences of the pedagogic strategies used by a mediator (graduate student in applied linguistics) in the supervision process of a Teletandem partner (undergraduate student in languages) on her pedagogical practice. It was done within the project…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching
Scott, Michael R.; And Others – 1988
This paper examines the context of critical reading and considers how it can best be taught. The paper also includes some reflections on the current "state of the art" in critical reading in an English for Special Purposes (ESP) or English as a Second Language (ESL) context. The paper details a series of attempts to develop a set of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Educational Objectives
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Holmes, John L. – ESPecialist, 1986
Discusses recognition of cognates used in teaching materials prepared by the English for Specific Purposes Project for academic courses. Presents suggestions based on theoretical considerations of cognate recognition. Examines, by way of protocol studies, how foreign students of English make use of cognate recognition. Suggests that strategies for…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)