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Abdul Samat, Norhanim; Azmi, Nur Alwani Syahirah; Abdullah, Tina – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study examines how pre-service teachers assess the appropriateness of literary texts used by high school students in terms of learners' age, linguistic needs, and language proficiency. It also aims to determine the relevance of the texts used to learners' cultural understanding. The participants in this study were five pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, High School Students
Abdullah, Tina; Yee, Bee Choo; Abdul Samat, Norhanim – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Literature instruction may serve multiple functions. This case study aimed at investigating the perceptions on the use of online literature circles among 62 first year Teaching English as a Second Language pre-service teachers in a literature course at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The participants were assigned to read and participate in online…
Descriptors: English Literature, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gandana, Isti Siti Saleha; Nafisah, Nia; Imperiani, Ernie D. Ayu – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
Critical thinking (CT) has generally been known as one of the core competencies of the 21st-century skills that students need to acquire to succeed in today's world. To attain this goal, teachers undoubtedly have a critical role to play. Involving a group of Indonesian teachers of English, this study aims to explore the teachers' initial…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Service Learning, Second Language Learning
Palytsya, Galyna; Storonska, Oksana – Advanced Education, 2021
The present article investigates foreign language teacher training quality enhancement by surveying pedagogical university students' opinions on important aspects of the course of Introduction to Germanic Linguistics within the Educational Programme for Bachelor's Degree in Education. The prime purpose is to study the perception of the…
Descriptors: German, Linguistics, Introductory Courses, Course Evaluation
Espinosa-Cevallos, Ligia Fernanda; Cortez-Martínez, Bertha Susana; Soto, Sandy T. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This study aims to explore the effects of implementing the literature circles strategy for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in levels 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of a public university in the Amazon Region of Ecuador. For this purpose, three English language teachers conducted some action research. Two hundred fourteen students of English Arts…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Student Attitudes, Group Discussion, Teaching Methods
Matthews, Graham; Djawoto, Olivia – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2022
This article argues that in order to encourage English graduates to expand their horizons, educators should diversify the range of assessments and offer greater opportunities for public engagement. Through a detailed analysis of the final-year elective, "Literature & Medicine," the authors explore the ways in which the design and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Elective Courses, Concept Mapping
Shi, Dan; Irwin, Derek; Du, Ping – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The present study aims to explore an embodied approach to students' deep learning; specifically, how deep learning is interactively achieved through teachers' languaging dynamics and multimodal representations in interactive lecturing in L2 higher education (HE) contexts. The purpose is to understand how an instructor's embodied and multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
Marlatt, Rick – Research in Drama Education, 2020
This article describes a connected learning project in which preservice teachers practice technology integration with the teaching of Shakespeare. Digitised Shakespeare pedagogy is often overlooked as a vital component for developing teachers who explore individual passions by constructing interactive spaces where personal interests and digital…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, English Literature
Ibraheem, Sura Dhiaa; Abbas, Nawal Fadhil – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Linguistically speaking, the concept of humor, which seems to be vast for people, has specific dimensions by which it is generated including: puns, irony, sarcasm, wittiness, and contrastive utterances in relation to the speakers of those utterances. It is about how the extra linguistics elements dominate the situation and the delivery of humor.…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Humor, Language Usage, Qualitative Research
Basabe, Enrique Alejandro – HOW, 2019
Criticality has recently made its way into the field of English Language Teaching. It has mainly fostered the study of teachers' individual commitments with their social context. A reflective account is offered here based on my praxis when I adopted a critical pedagogy to teach literature in the English language teacher education program at the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Critical Theory
Sabeti, Shari – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
This article describes an empirical study of the ways in which one group of adaptors transformed the plays of William Shakespeare into the medium of the comic book for use in school classrooms. It explores the choices, dilemmas, processes and responsibilities they experienced in doing so. These adaptors had to tackle the burden of…
Descriptors: Drama, English Literature, Classics (Literature), Cartoons
Li, Huiyin – English Language Teaching, 2017
This action research was conducted to investigate the efficacy of networking, an adjusted cooperative learning method employed in an English literature class for non-English majors in China. Questionnaire was administered online anonymously to college students after a 14-week cooperative learning in literature class in a Chinese university, aiming…
Descriptors: English Literature, Cooperative Learning, Action Research, Social Networks
Standish, Alex, Ed.; Cuthbert, Alka Sehgal, Ed. – UCL Press, 2017
The blurring of the distinctions between pedagogy and curriculum, and experience and knowledge, has resulted in a generation of teachers who are confused about the part that each of these plays in the education of children. Schools may still teach through subjects, but there is little consensus about what constitutes a subject and what they are…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Knowledge Level, Intellectual Disciplines, Mathematics Instruction
Batchelor, Katherine E.; Ramos, Maria; Neiswander, Samantha – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2018
LGBTQ themes are often neglected in many schools' curriculum. Currently, an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum framework is not required in most school districts across the county. Therefore, it is important to understand how teachers regard LGBTQ issues; how they address the needs of students in the middle school and high school English classroom who…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Adolescent Literature, Teaching Methods
Coles, Jane; Bryer, Theo – English in Education, 2018
In this article, we offer an account of a two-day workshop conducted with a group of postgraduate English and Drama student teachers, part of a larger AHRC-funded research project. Our focus is on reading and the reception of a canonical text, in this case Beowulf. We argue that taking a transmedia approach helps learners to think about the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Teachers, Workshops, Graduate Students