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The representation of reality in teaching: A 'mimetic didactic' perspective on examples in plenary talk

2016

ABSTRACTUsing an observation study in Norwegian lower-secondary school classrooms this paper explores how subject matter and students’ real-world experiences are linked within the use of examples in teaching. The theory of “mimetic didactics” claims that giving students the possibility to interpret examples as both subject matter and something that is relevant to their own lives becomes a possibility through imaginative “as-if” experiences. The study finds that “as-if” experiences in the data are created by identifying with others and through a context-dependent knowledge base. The topics in the examples actualise being human within the political, economic and existential realm and offer po…

Towards a Data Warehouse Architecture for Managing Big Data Evolution

2018

Eye Movement Analyses for Obtaining Readability Formula for Latvian Texts for Primary School

2017

To determine the difficulty of text, readability formulas can be used. The research was made to find readability formula for Latvian. Readability formulas for English were used as guidelines. The novelty was the use of eye movement tracking during reading to obtain quantitative data that lead to readability formula. Eye fixation durations were gathered during readability measurements. Average values of fixation durations were calculated to characterize texts and readers. 15 texts with various difficulty levels were composed for exposing them to readers. More than 300 children of grades 1 - 4 were participating in measurements. Average values of eye fixation durations of readers from a certa…

CLIL: A European Approach to Bilingual Education

2016

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a term used especially in Europe for forms of bilingual education where an additional language, in most cases English, is used as the language of instruction in non‐language school subjects. This chapter outlines the development of CLIL, embedded both in European level policies and in growing awareness of the new orientations to language learning introduced, for example, in language immersion research. Because of its potential to serve as a context for meaningful language use and situated language learning, CLIL has been regarded by EU institutions as an important instrument to foster European citizens’ bi‐ and multilingualism, to be offere…

Diseño de tareas telecolaborativas para el aprendizaje de idiomas con cuentos del mundo

2018

Este artículo se centra en el diseño de tareas de telecolaboración para el desarrollo de competencias lingüísticas, literarias, interculturales y digitales, teniendo en cuenta las diferentes acciones llevadas a cabo antes y durante el proyecto de cara a garantizar el éxito del mismo. La propuesta, realizada en el marco del proyecto iTECLA, conjuga la telecolaboración con la redacción e intercambio de cuentos que reflejan valores culturales de los respectivos países de origen de los participantes. El proyecto implica la realización de una serie de tareas por parte de cada estudiante, mediante un proceso guiado de análisis y reflexión basado en métodos de trabajo telecolaborativo en línea en …

A Method for Building Massive Open Online Courses for Elderly People MOOCEP: From the User Perceptions

2018

This Research Full Paper presents the user perceptions when elderly people use a MOOC which was built by using the method for building massive open online courses for elderly people (MOOCEP). Context: Currently, the elderly population has increased in respect to the total population. According to Administration on Aging (AoA) for the year 2060, the elderly population will be double than presented in the results of the last census. Likewise, a reduced proportion of the population of elderly people is involved with technology or have a very close relation with it. However, the universal access to technology is important in the field of education and interactive systems due to the need of prom…

Los encapsuladores anafóricos: una propuesta de clasificación

2018

En este trabajo se define desde un punto de vista formal, semántico e informativo un tipo de sintagmas nominales encapsuladores. Se trata de sintagmas nominales con un componente anafórico que reifican y recategorizan fragmentos discursivos para convertirlos en puntos de anclaje informativos (temas) a partir de los cuales poder desarrollar el discurso. Son los llamados encapsuladores anafóricos (temáticos). Se propone asimismo una clasificación de los tipos de sintagmas que pueden desempeñar esta función discursiva, atendiendo a 3 parámetros: (a) la naturaleza léxico-semántica del núcleo nominal; (b) la presencia o ausencia de componentes axiológicos en el sintagma, y (c) el elemento sintag…

Two languages in the air: a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices

2020

This book article was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1184615 Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish-Swedish and Russian-Finnish contexts), and Israel (an Arabic-Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We fou…

Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Collaborative Research in Multi- and Intercultural Education

2014

This chapter sets out an approach to professional development and team building in a newly established faculty in a Finnish university. A method is given for mapping the academic and professional experiences of eight faculty members across disciplinary boundaries to arrive at a cross-disciplinary framework for collaborative research in multi- and intercultural education. Building cumulatively on faculty members’ expertise, the mapping revealed three interconnected themes as a basis for collaborative research: boundary transactions between knowledge, skill and language; boundary objects as representations and carriers of culture; and technological mediation of boundary encounters. A collecti…

Teachers’ perspectives on telecollaboration in secondary school foreign language education

2018

In recent years, telecollaboration has proved to be a useful tool in the acquisition of foreign languages and intercultural communicative skills (Belz 2003b; Clavel-Arroitia, Pennock-Speck 2015a, 2015b; Hewitt, Brett 2007; O’Dowd 2007; Su et al., 2005). This paper focuses on how prepared secondary-school teachers believe they are in order to successfully implement telecollaboration in the classroom. To gather information on their views we carried out an online survey of 179 secondary school foreign language teachers and a series of focus group interviews in the context of a European project, TeCoLa. The advantage of the double- pronged approach to data collection, quantitative and qualitati…