Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning

Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning
Author: Tan Bee Tin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-08-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137340428

This book explores the issues and concerns many language teachers have in not just helping able students to learn a foreign or second language but more importantly how to get reluctant learners to become interested in language learning. Tin proposes ‘interest’ as an important construct that requires investigation if we are to understand second language learning experiences in a modern globalised world. The book offers both theoretical explorations and empirical findings arising from the author’s own research in the field. Chapters demonstrate how various theoretical and empirical findings can be applied to practice so as to raise the awareness of the importance of interest in language learning and teaching. For teacher trainers and educators, researchers, and practising language teachers, this comprehensive study provides tools to stimulate student interest in language learning for successful language learning.

Energy, Environment and Green Building Materials

Energy, Environment and Green Building Materials
Author: Ai Sheng
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2015-05-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1315735407

The 2014 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Green Building Materials (EEGBM2014) was held November 28-30, 2014, in Guilin, Guangxi. EEGBM2014 provided a valuable opportunity for researchers, scholars and scientists to exchange their new ideas and application experiences face to face together, to establish business or research relat

Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms

Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms
Author: Sarah Mercer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 1108445934

This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge, the book takes an applied approach, providing clear principles and practical strategies for teachers.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology
Author: Fiona Farr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2016-02-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317329422

The exponential growth and development of modern technologies in all sectors has made it increasingly difficult for students, teachers and teacher educators to know which technologies to employ and how best to take advantage of them. The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology brings together experts in a number of key areas of development and change, and opens the field of language learning by exploring the pedagogical importance of technological innovation. The handbook is structured around six themes: historical and conceptual contexts core issues interactive and collaborative technologies for language learning corpora and data driven learning gaming and language learning purpose designed language learning resources. Led by fundamental concepts, theories and frameworks from language learning and teaching research rather than by specific technologies, this handbook is the essential reference for all students, teachers and researchers of Language Learning and TESOL. Those working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Education and Media Studies will also find this a valuable book.

Creativity and Innovations in ELT Materials Development

Creativity and Innovations in ELT Materials Development
Author: Dat Bao
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1783099712

This book brings together renowned scholars and new voices to challenge current practices in ELT materials design in order to work towards optimal learning conditions. It proposes ideas and principles to improve second language task design through novel resources such as drama, poetry, literature and online resources; and it maps out a number of unusual connections between theory and practice in the field of ELT materials development. The first section of the book discusses how innovative task-writing ideas can stretch materials beyond the current quality to make them more original and inspiring; the second part examines how different arts and technologies can drive innovation in coursebooks; the third section describes how teachers and learners can participate in materials writing and negotiate ways to personalize learning.

Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, Part V

Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, Part V
Author: Sally Lin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2011-08-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642233570

This 5-volume set (CCIS 214-CCIS 218) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, CSEE 2011, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2011. The 525 revised full papers presented in the five volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information security, intelligent information, neural networks, digital library, algorithms, automation, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer networks, computational system, computer vision, computer modelling and simulation, control, databases, data mining, e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, image processing, information systems, knowledge management and knowledge discovering, mulitimedia and its apllication, management and information system, moblie computing, natural computing and computational intelligence, open and innovative education, pattern recognition, parallel and computing, robotics, wireless network, web application, other topics connecting with computer, environment and ecoinformatics, modeling and simulation, environment restoration, environment and energy, information and its influence on environment, computer and ecoinformatics, biotechnology and biofuel, as well as biosensors and bioreactor.

Engaging Learners with Chemistry

Engaging Learners with Chemistry
Author: Ilka Parchmann
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2020-07-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1839161272

Many projects in recent years have applied context-based learning and engagement tools to the fostering of long-term student engagement with chemistry. While empirical evidence shows the positive effects of context-based learning approaches on students’ interest, the long-term effects on student engagement have not been sufficiently highlighted up to now. Edited by respected chemistry education researchers, and with contributions from practitioners across the world, Engaging Learners with Chemistry sets out the approaches that have been successfully tested and implemented according to different criteria, including informative, interactive, and participatory engagement, while also considering citizenship and career perspectives. Bringing together the latest research in one volume, this book will be useful for chemistry teachers, researchers in chemistry education and professionals in the chemical industry seeking to attract students to careers in the chemical sector.

Lessons from Good Language Teachers

Lessons from Good Language Teachers
Author: Carol Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1108489265

Explains how good language teachers work, drawing on teacher training theory as well as many examples and case studies.

Talent Development for English Language Learners

Talent Development for English Language Learners
Author: Michael S. Matthews
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100050378X

Talent Development for English Language Learners offers concrete guidance to teachers, schools, and administrators seeking to maximize the potential of all of their students. Each chapter will focus thematically on an issue relevant to developing the talents and potential of gifted English language learners (ELLs) in inclusive educational settings. Examples of how schools or educators might conventionally conceptualize and handle the issues related to ELLs and what the concerns or unintended negative outcomes are for gifted ELLs are provided. The authors focus on what an “ideal” response might be from the lens of both the gifted education and the language education field, and how collaborative efforts across these perspectives yield effective interventions in schools and related educational settings for students who are both English language learners and highly academically able.

Challenges of Modern Foreign Language Teaching

Challenges of Modern Foreign Language Teaching
Author: Thomas Tinnefeld
Publisher: htw saar
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3942949261

The present volume deals with some of the challenges that modern foreign language teaching will face in the near future. These challenges are presented with regard to various domains of language teaching, e.g. mobile learning, the overall organisation of learning environments, innovative language teaching methods, internationalisation and language mediation. Techno­logical development and the rapid spread of computers, smartphones and social media are described and analysed as well as instrumental scaffolding, the multilingual classroom, the multilingual learner, pronunciation, and learner motivation.