Search results for "communicative"

Towards dialogic teaching in science : challenging classroom realities through teacher education

2013

The connection between forms of guidance for inquiry-based learning and the communicative approaches applied : a case study in the context of pre-ser…

2019

Recent research has argued that inquiry-based science learning should be guided by providing the learners with support. The research on guidance for inquiry-based learning has concentrated on how providing guidance affects learning through inquiry. How guidance for inquiry-based learning could promote learning about inquiry (e.g. epistemic practices) is in need of exploration. A dialogic approach to classroom communication and pedagogical link-making offers possibilities for learners to acquire these practices. The focus of this paper is to analyse the role of different forms of guidance for inquiry-based learning on building the communicative approach applied in classrooms. The data for th…

Virtual Slovak : insight into learning Slovak in an e-learning environment

2015

This paper offers insight into learning Slovak in an e-learning environment. The need to reach distance-learners of Slovak led to the implementation of a web-based course on Slovak language and culture in 2008–2010. The pedagogical basis of the course, called Virtual Slovak, is the socioconstructivist approach to teaching and learning, in which the focus is on the development of learners’ communicative competence. This teaching experiment led to a study in which the focus was on learners’ beliefs and experiences regarding learning Slovak in an e-learning environment. The results showed that this particular learning environment had a positive impact on the development of learners’ agency. Th…

Start talking! : a communicative material package for the upper secondary school oral English course

2016

Suullisen kielitaidon opetus etenkin lukiossa on saanut viime aikoina paljon huomiota osakseen. Tästä huolimatta suullinen kielitaito jää valitettavan usein muiden kielitaidon osa-alueiden varjoon, mikä saattaa osaltaan johtua siitä, että ylioppilaskokeessa sitä ei arvioida. Tällä hetkellä käytössä olevissa oppikirjoissa olevat suulliset harjoitukset eivät aina anna oppilaille mahdollisuutta harjoittaa vapaata suullista tuottamista, vaan vaativat tiettyjen kielimuotojen käyttöä ja keskittyvät esimerkiksi sanaston ja kieliopin harjoittelemiseen. Sellaisia tehtäviä, joissa oppilaiden käyttämä kieli muistuttaa oikeaa kielenkäyttötilannetta, ei ole läheskään tarpeeksi. Tämän oppimateriaalin pää…

Teaching and learning oral skills in Finnish upper secondary school : a study of students' and teachers' views on oral skills education

2013

Suullisen kielitaidon opetusta sekä sen asemaa lukion englannin kielen opinnoissa on tutkittu enimmäkseen opettajien näkökulmasta. Tämän tutkielman tarkoitus oli tutkia, millaisten harjoitusten kautta suullista kielitaitoa opetetaan ja opetellaan lukioissa, sekä millaiset suulliset harjoitukset opiskelijat ja opettajat kokevat mieluisimmiksi ja hyödyllisimmiksi oppimisen kannalta. Lisäksi tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin, millainen status suullisella kielitaidolla nykyään on lukion englannin kielen opinnoissa, ja keskitytäänkö suullisen kielitaidon opettamiseen tarpeeksi. Tutkimuksen kohderyhmänä olivat englannin kielen lukio-opettajat sekä toisen vuositason opiskelijat Keski-Suomen ja Itä-…

A cookbook for hungry teachers : suggestopedy and cooperative learning in practising oral skills : a material package

2008

Platformed Interactions: How Social Media Platforms Relate to Candidate–Constituent Interaction During Finnish 2015 Election Campaigning

2020

Interaction between candidates and constituents via social media is a well-studied domain. The article takes this research further through a synthesis with platform studies, emerging scholarship that applies a critical perspective to the role of digital platforms in society. Examination of candidate–constituent interaction via Twitter and Facebook during the 2015 Finnish parliamentary elections revealed that the types of interaction differ between the two platforms: Facebook was used for formal campaigning and for praising and expressing support, while Twitter was utilized for information and for seeking and sharing opinions. An additional finding is that interaction approaches may be plat…

School Staff-centered School Development by Communicative Action: Working Methods for Creating Collective Responsibility - From the Idea to Action

2020

School development is often seen as a concerted (re-)action to educational policies, curriculum development, and change in education laws or regulations, and sometimes, as stakeholders’ reactions to low school performance. Generally, school development incorporates organizational, managerial, and educational activities and measures. This is done to adapt to the new situation to achieve the desired changes and goals initiated by a given curriculum reform. In contrast, this paper focuses on school staff–driven development: It describes how teachers together with paraprofessionals contribute to school-development. Using collective responsibility creating working methods of communication, the e…

Social network site communities as agents and spaces of pursuing influence in society : forms, stages and attributes of building communicative power

2018

Before the emergence and high popularity of social media, individuals or even collectives of individual citizens rarely had strong voice in public discourse. Social media, and its social network sites (SNS), have allowed individual people to form communities to create discourse around issues they find meaningful, and even unite their power to fight for a common cause and potentially influence changes in society. The objectives of the thesis were to investigate what types of ‘societal influence (SI) oriented SNS communities’ the Internet and social media arena consists of and how their potential communicative power is formed, even to the extent that they can challenge news media and business…

Communicative Functions of Hashtags

2018

Abstract Despite the initial function of hashtags as tools for sorting and aggregating information according to topics, the social media currently witness a diversity of uses diverging from the initial purpose. The aim of this article is to investigate the communicative functions of hashtags through a combined approach of literature review, field study and case study. Different uses of hashtags were subjected to semantic analysis in order to disclose generalizable trends. As a result, ten communicative functions were identified: topic-marking, aggregation, socializing, excuse, irony, providing metadata, expressing attitudes, initiating movements, propaganda and brand marketing. These findin…