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2. HUCKLEBERRY FINN. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. SHORT STORIES. LITERATURE CURRICULUM IV, TEACHER VERSION.
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Oregon Univ., Eugene. and KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
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A CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR THE TEACHING OF "HUCKLEBERRY FINN,""DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE," AND FOUR SHORT STORIES WAS PRESENTED. THE SHORT STORIES WERE (1) "THE APPLE TREE" BY JOHN GALSWORTHY, (2) "THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND" BY H.G. WELLS, (3) "A DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER" BY O. HENRY, AND (4) "A MYSTERY OF HEROISM" BY STEPHEN CRANE. THE GUIDE PROVIDED BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, THEMATIC EXPLANATIONS OF EACH WORK, STUDENT QUESTIONS, TEACHING SUGGESTIONS, AND COMPOSITION TOPICS. THE STUDENT VERSION IS ED 010 821. RELATED REPORTS ARE ED 010 129 THROUGH ED 010 160 AND ED 010 803 THROUGH ED 010 832. (GD)
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- 2024
3. TWENTIETH CENTURY LYRICS. SCIENCE AND POETRY. LITERATURE CURRICULUM IV, STUDENT VERSION.
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Oregon Univ., Eugene. and KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
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THIS CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR 10TH-GRADE STUDENTS DEALT WITH (1) 20TH-CENTURY LYRIC POETRY AND (2) THE COMPARISON BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND POETIC WRITINGS. A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION PRECEDED PRESENTATION OF THE MATERIAL IN BOTH SECTIONS. SUGGESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND COMPOSITION TOPICS WERE ALSO PRESENTED. THE TEACHER VERSION IS ED 010 820. RELATED REPORTS ARE ED 010 129 THROUGH ED 010 160 AND ED 010 803 THROUGH ED 010 832. (GD)
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- 2024
4. CONCEPTS OF MAN, A CURRICULUM FOR AVERAGE STUDENTS.
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Euclid English Demonstration Center, OH.
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THIS ENGLISH GUIDE FOR AVERAGE STUDENTS IN GRADES 7, 8, AND 9 CONTAINS A RATIONALE FOR STRUCTURING A LITERATURE CURRICULUM AS WELL AS SPECIFIC TEACHING UNITS DESIGNED TO DEVELOP THE STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF MAN AND TO TEACH THEM TO INDEPENDENTLY ANALYZE LITERATURE. UNITS ARE (1) "MAN AND HIS PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT," GRADE 7, (2) "JUSTICE," GRADE 7, (3) "COURAGE," TWO GRADE 7 UNITS (AVERAGE AND HONORS), (4) "COMING OF AGE," GRADE 8, (5) "CHARACTERIZATION," GRADE 8, AND (6) "MAN AND CULTURE," GRADE 9. EACH UNIT CONTAINS (1) A BRIEF OVERVIEW, (2) SPECIFIC LESSON PLANS (INCLUDING INDUCTIVE QUESTIONS, LANGUAGE EXERCISES, AND CREATIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS BASED ON REQUIRED READING MATERIALS), (3) STUDY GUIDES THAT STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO USE IN SMALL-GROUP DISCUSSIONS, AND (4) BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF POEMS, PLAYS, PROSE SELECTIONS, AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS, AND WORKBOOKS. COPIES OF THE SEVEN UNITS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE (LIMITED SUPPLY) FROM CHARLES C. ROGERS, PROJECT UPGRADE, DISTRICT OF AIKEN COUNTY, P.O. BOX 771, AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA 29801, $0.50 PER UNIT. (JB)
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- 2024
5. ENGLISH WRITING, APPROACHES TO COMPOSITION.
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Euclid English Demonstration Center, OH.
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THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS BY STAFF MEMBERS OF THE EUCLID ENGLISH DEMONSTRATION CENTER FOCUSES ON APPROACHES TO THE TEACHING OF COMPOSITION IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. THE PAPERS ARE (1) "LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION," BY JAMES F. MCCAMPBELL, (2) "COMPOSING--EPIPHANY AND DETAIL," BY JOSEPH DYESS, (3) "THE LANGUAGE COMPOSITION ACT," BY LESTER E. ANGENE, (4) "AN APPROACH TO CREATIVITY IN POETRY," BY JACK L. GRANFIELD, AND (5) "VALUES OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS," BY GEORGE HILLOCKS. APPENDED IS A PART OF THE NINTH-GRADE AVERAGE CURRICULUM, A UNIT ON THE NEWSPAPER DESIGNED TO PREPARE STUDENTS TO WRITE, EDIT, ORGANIZE, AND PUBLISH AN ISSUE OF THE SCHOOL NEWSPAPER. LESSONS IN THE UNIT INCLUDE OBJECTIVES, SUGGESTED TEACHING PROCEDURES, EXERCISES, AND STUDY GUIDES. THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS ($0.50) AND THE NEWSPAPER UNIT ($0.50) ARE AVAILABLE (LIMITED SUPPLY) FROM CHARLES C. ROGERS, PROJECT UPGRADE, SCHOOL DISTRICT OF AIKEN COUNTY, P.O. BOX 771, AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA 29801. (DL)
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- 2024
6. STRUCTURE AND TEACHING, BUILDING THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM.
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Euclid English Demonstration Center, OH.
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THIS GUIDE FOR GRADES 7, 8, AND 9 IS INTRODUCED BY TWO PAPERS--"APPROACHES TO MEANING, A BASIS FOR CURRICULUM IN LITERATURE" AND "THE THEME-CONCEPT UNIT IN LITERATURE," BOTH BY GEORGE HILLOCKS--WHICH DESCRIBE THE BUILDING OF A CURRICULUM IN ENGLISH UPON THE STRUCTURE AND PRINCIPLES DEVELOPED BY THE EUCLID ENGLISH DEMONSTRATION CENTER. THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING A TEACHING UNIT IS EXPLAINED, AND THE FOLLOWING UNITS ARE INCLUDED--(1) ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM (GRADE 8 HONORS), (2) ANIMAL STORIES (GRADE 7 AVERAGE), (3) THE OUTCAST (GRADE 9 AVERAGE), (4) SURVIVAL (GRADE 9 AVERAGE), (5) PROTEST (GRADE 9 AVERAGE), AND (6) ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM (GRADE 7 HONORS). INDIVIDUAL PAPERS ON THE FIRST FOUR UNITS ARE PROVIDED AND UNITS CONTAIN OVERVIEWS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND LESSON PLANS WHICH SUGGEST TEACHING PROCEDURES, EXERCISES, AND STUDY GUIDES. COPIES OF THE SIX UNITS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE (LIMITED SUPPLY) FROM CHARLES C. ROGERS, PROJECT UPGRADE, SCHOOL DISTRICT OF AIKEN COUNTY, P.O. BOX 771, AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA 29801, $0.50 PER UNIT. (DL)
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- 2024
7. AN INTRODUCTION TO A CURRICULUM.
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Euclid English Demonstration Center, OH.
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THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS SERVES AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUCLID ENGLISH DEMONSTRATION CENTER'S JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM. IN ADDITION TO A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM AND OUTLINES OF THE AVERAGE AND HONORS CURRICULA, THE FOLLOWING PAPERS ARE INCLUDED--(1) "THE THEME-CONCEPT UNIT IN LITERATURE," (2) "APPROACHES TO MEANING--A BASIS FOR A CURRICULUM IN LITERATURE," (3) "A CURRICULUM IN LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FOR AVERAGE STUDENTS IN GRADES SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE," (4) "A UNIT ON THE OUTCAST," (5) "A CURRICULUM IN LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FOR JUNIOR HIGH HONORS STUDENTS," (6) "A REMEDIAL PROGRAM FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS," (7) "SOME APPROACHES TO COMPOSITION," (8) "SEMANTICS AND THE JUNIOR HIGH CURRICULUM," AND (9) "THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM." A LIMITED NUMBER OF COPIES OF THIS INTRODUCTION ARE AVAILABLE FROM CHARLES C. ROGERS, PROJECT UPGRADE, SCHOOL DISTRICT OF AIKEN COUNTY, P.O. BOX 771, AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA 29801, $0.50. (DL)
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- 2024
8. SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD. DIFFICULT LITERATURE--A READER'S VIEW. LITERATURE CURRICULUM VI, TEACHER AND STUDENT VERSIONS.
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Oregon Univ., Eugene. and KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
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THE FIRST OF THESE TWO 12TH-GRADE LITERATURE UNITS, "SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD," IS DESIGNED TO HELP STUDENTS TO RECOGNIZE EXPRESSIONS OF COMMON EXPERIENCE PRESENT IN LITERARY WORKS REGARDLESS OF WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN. WORKS SELECTED FOR THIS UNIT ARE GROUPED UNDER FOUR TOPICS--"YOUTH AND AGE,""THE NATIVITY, CHRISTIAN TRADITION,""CONFLICT OF GENERATIONS," AND "THE INDIVIDUAL IN CONFLICT WITH SOCIETY." THE SECOND UNIT, "DIFFICULT LITERATURE--A READER'S VIEW," IS INTENDED TO GUIDE STUDENTS IN ISOLATING THE PRINCIPAL DIFFICULTIES OF READING LITERATURE AND IN EVALUATING THE VARIOUS JUSTIFICATIONS FOR LITERARY DIFFICULTY (E.G., HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL DISTANCE, AUTHOR ORIGINALITY, AND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE WORLD). THE STUDENT VERSION CONTAINS AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS, AND THE TEACHER VERSION PROVIDES DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND INTRODUCTIONS TO UNITS AND TO LITERARY SELECTIONS. FIVE TESTS DESIGNED TO ACCOMPANY THESE UNITS ARE APPENDED. SEE ALSO ED 010 129 THROUGH ED 010 160, ED 010 803 THROUGH ED 010 832, TE 000 195 THROUGH TE 000 220, AND TE 000 227 THROUGH TE 000 249. (RD)
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- 2024
9. SHORT STORIES. LITERATURE CURRICULUM IV, REVISED TEACHER AND STUDENT VERSIONS.
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Oregon Univ., Eugene. and KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
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THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF SUBJECT, FORM, AND POINT OF VIEW, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE LAST, IS THE CONCERN OF THIS 10TH-GRADE LITERATURE UNIT. BACKGROUND INFORMATION, STUDY AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS, AND SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ARE PROVIDED FOR SIX SHORT STORIES REPRESENTING VARIED POINTS OF VIEW--(1) H.G. WELLS'"THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND," (2) O. HENRY'S "A DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER," (3) STEPHEN CRANE'S "A MYSTERY OF HEROISM," (4) AMBROSE BIERCE'S "JUPITER DOKE, BRIGADIER GENERAL," (5) ALAN SILLITOE'S "ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON," AND (6) WALLACE STEGNER'S "BUTCHER BIRD." SEE ALSO ED 010 129 THROUGH ED 010 160, ED 010 803 THROUGH ED 010 832, TE 000 195 THROUGH TE 000 220, AND TE 000 227 THROUGH TE 000 249. (MM)
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- 2024
10. Visual Art as a Tool to Learn about Literature
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Clara Ling Boon Ing, Che Aleha Ladin, and Lim Jia Wei
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Purpose: Art forms such as music and drama are among some recognised tools used by educators. This has sparked interest in how art can be used in education, making it a fertile field for educational research. However, there is a missing connection in how drawing can be used as a tool for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students to learn about literature. Methodology: This paper will incorporate an Arts-Based Research (ABR) method to determine how visual art, particularly drawing, can be used as a tool to advance EFL students' understanding of a selected literary text, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" (2015) This qualitative study, viewed through the lens of Richard Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML), involved 10 EFL participants and revealed strategies for integrating drawing that are absent in traditional approaches. Additionally, Hameed's (2022) elements of art, Yenawine's (2014) Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), and Showalter's (2003) concepts of literature learning will be included to ground the framework of the intervention. Findings: This study can be regarded as a method to liberate traditional teaching practices into contemporary approaches, serving as a tool to merge cultural knowledge while improving confidence, higher-order thinking skills, and expression. It also allows educators to be flexible and provoke more reflection and participation. The data discusses three main strategies in exploring how integrating drawing can help EFL students learn about literature: mining to trigger thoughts, engaging with the senses, and giving permission to wonder. Visual art allows individuals to create their responses by exploring new ideas and representing emotions, confirming plans, and comprehending the deeper level of literary texts. Significance: The study will offer insight and work as an alternate strategy for educators and learners alike to utilise visual art as a tool in teaching and learning literature. The findings will also ease the alarming condition where literature teaching and learning are stereotyped as daunting. [This paper was presented at the 12th Malaysian International Conference of Languages, Literature, and Culture (MICOLLAC) held in Penang, Malaysia, in August 2023.]
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- 2024
11. L2 Competence in Chinese Correlative Connectives: A Case of Discontinuous Discursive Formulaic Sequences
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Yuan Lu
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This study explored second language (L2) competence in discontinuous discursive formulaic sequences, namely Chinese correlative connectives (CCCs; e.g. yinwei . . . suy 'because . . . so'), in relation to the determinants of formulaic sequence acquisition by scrutinizing L2 Chinese learners' performance on two controlled tasks. Mixed-effects modeling showed that frequency exerted both positive and negative effects on the task performance of L2 learners on CCCs. Contingency (i.e. the co-occurrence of two constituent connectives) posed a tremendous challenge to the use of obligatory CCCs by L2 learners. In contrast, semantic transparency and first language congruency had a positive effect. The effects of these determinants on L2 performance were qualified by their interactions in different categories of CCCs. The results also indicated that learners were sensitive to frequency and contingency determinants at both construction and constituent word levels. This study enriches our understanding of L2 competence in formulaic language and provides unique insights into L2 learners' knowledge of CCCs.
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- 2025
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12. Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts
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Allen Webb, Richard Beach, Jeff Share, Allen Webb, Richard Beach, and Jeff Share
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Discover how English teachers and their students confront the climate crisis using critical inquiry, focusing on justice, and taking action. Working in today's politically polarized environment, these teachers know first-hand about teaching and learning in communities that support and resist climate education. This much-needed book describes outstanding English instruction that includes creative and analytical writing; critical place-based learning; contemporary "cli-fi"; young adult, Indigenous, and youth-authored literature; Afrofuturism; critical media analysis; digital media production; and many other ways in which students can explore the crisis and have their voices heard and respected. While the focus is on high school and middle school English Language Arts, there are also relevant and inspiring elementary and college examples. This resource provides everything teachers need to help young people understand and address the climate emergency through supportive and empowering transformational learning. Book Features: (1) Emphasizes addressing the climate crisis as an important dimension of English language arts; (2) Illustrates relevant and effective ways to use writing, critical inquiry, literature, media, speaking, the arts, and publishing; (3) Provides examples of students connecting local climate impacts with national and global events; critically analyzing climate denial, delay, and inaction; considering questions of justice; imagining different futures; and developing their voices and activism; (4) Shares teaching methods, classroom stories, and student work from cities, suburbs, and rural classrooms; (5) Examines questions of climate justice: Who causes the crisis? Who suffers? Why do governments fail to act? What is the experience of climate refugees? What type of world will young people inherit?; (6) Explains how students can take action, join with others, and become involved in solutions; and (7) Additional resources are available for each chapter at http://climatecrisisela.pbworks.com.
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- 2024
13. In-Service Educators Making Sense of Risky Literature: The Cultural Politics of Positioning (Con)Texts during a Yearlong Antibias, Antiracist Book Club
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Kierstin Giunco, Kyle Patrick Smith, and Jon Michael Wargo
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Amidst the backdrop of rising censorship legislation, it is important to understand the influence of teachers' particular contexts on their perceptions of potentially controversial texts and subsequent instructional choices. This study explores five in-service teachers' acts of positioning observed in year-long antibias antiracist professional book club, which facilitated educators' access to such texts and opened space for imagining ways to incorporate them into classroom practice. The findings illuminate how teachers positioned their school's moral framework, their responsibilities towards families, and specific texts as possible for classroom use. Furthermore, this study prompts critical reflection on the role of facilitators in revising contextual storylines while highlighting the persistent challenges of breaking free from entrenched storylines in pursuit of antibias antiracist pedagogy.
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- 2024
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14. Exploring Creative Spaces Predict Domain-Specific Creative Achievements
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Jean-Christophe Goulet-Pelletier and Denis Cousineau
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This study aimed to understand the factors predicting creative activities and creative achievements among university students. Based on a recently proposed framework of 10 creative spaces, we hypothesized that exploring those creative spaces, alongside the personality trait openness to experience and divergent thinking abilities would predict creative activities and achievements in specific domains. Using the Inventory of Creative Activities and Achievements (ICAA) to evaluate eight domains of creativity, two divergent thinking tasks, and one associative task, we analyzed a sample of n = 300 university students. The results of Structural Equation Models revealed that the creative spaces significantly predicted creative activities and creative achievements in the eight domains assessed. The model explained in average 27% of the variance in creative activities and 17% in creative achievements. Openness significantly predicted creative activities in music, literature, and arts and crafts. Intellect did not significantly predict any domain. Lastly, fluency in divergent thinking was positively associated with all domains (average coefficient of [beta] = 0.15), despite not always reaching significance. We discuss the roles of the recently proposed creative spaces, as well as openness to experience, and fluency in predicting creativity across various domains.
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- 2024
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15. A Performance Evaluation Index for Student Satisfaction in Online Live Classes of Chinese Language and Literature
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Chunhua Liu and Panwang Yang
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Student satisfaction in online live classes is considered an important criterion to evaluate the effectiveness of this instructional system. This study aims to develop a performance evaluation index to measure the satisfaction of students who have mastered Chinese language and literature through online live classes. Guided by survey techniques and related theories, a questionnaire on satisfaction in online live classes for students majoring in Chinese language and literature was developed. The reliability and validity of the measurement instrument were assessed through testing, and the results showed good reliability and validity. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to establish a performance evaluation model. The findings of this study contribute to the field of online education by providing a structured method to assess student satisfaction with the Chinese language and literature through online live classes. The performance evaluation index developed in this study can be used by educational institutions to improve the quality of their online instructional programs and improve the overall learning experience for students. Thus, the novelty of the study is to develop an evaluation model that helps educational institutions to evaluate the effectiveness of online live classes and guide the improvement of instructional practices.
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- 2024
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16. Encouraging Transformative and Creative Learning in Adult Literacy Education through Artistic Literacies
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Karen Magro
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Artistic Literacies (AL) can be a catalyst to creative, imaginative, and potentially, transformative learning (Blackburn Miller, 2020). Artistic literacy texts include storytelling, creative writing, popular theatre, music, dance, poetry, fiction, or memoir, and visual art. Creative possibilities for diverse adult literacy learners can open when artistic literacies are integrated across the disciplines. This paper will highlight the way that transformative learning theory can enrich our understanding of artistic literacies and adult learning processes. Connections to transcultural literacies, affective (emotional and social) literacies, and environmental literacies within the context of adult literacy education will be explored. Visual art is used to highlight key dimensions of transformative learning and multimodal literacies. In multimodal learning, written-linguistic modes of expression interact with oral, visual, audio, gestural, tactile and spatial patterns of meaning (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012). For example, visual literacies can encourage the exploration, analysis, interpretation, and expression of artistic forms that include painting, sculpture, collage, photography, graffiti art, mobile art installations, protest art, and film. Transformative learning and multimodal learning disrupt singular conceptions of literacy to enable multiple entry points (e.g., aesthetic, narrational, experiential, intrapersonal, etc.) for creative learning and multimodal literacy development.
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- 2024
17. Didaculturation and Themes of History and Politics
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Nassima Kerras
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The objective of this article is to make a didactic proposal based on cultural studies for various university courses. The project addresses three axes: knowledge through literature, creation through historical and political events, and innovation through forms of artistic expression. In this study, history and politics are addressed as teaching and learning approaches based on accumulated knowledge and culture. This is used so as to bring realities closer to learners and relate media texts to reality, which encourages learners to reflect on issues of great interest for the evolution of society, through what we will call "Didaculturation". A syllabus proposal can then be adapted to the needs of modern society and to address university failure.
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- 2024
18. Implementing Authentic and Literary Texts to Improve Saudi EFL Reading Skills: A Study of Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'
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Elsayed Abdalla Muhammad Ahm and Hammad Ali M. Alshammari
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This paper explores the impact of using Virginia Woolf's novel "To The Lighthouse" as a literary text in enhancing reading skills among second and foreign language learners through adopting Constructivist Learning Theory (CLT) as underpinning framework. CLT emphasizes the active role of learners in constructing their own understanding and knowledge through experiences, interactions, and engagement with the learning materials. Through an analysis of literary techniques, thematic depth, and engagement strategies, this study aims to demonstrate how Woolf's text can serve as an effective pedagogical tool in language education. The findings of this study showed integrating literature into language learning not only improves reading comprehension but also enhances critical thinking, cultural awareness, and emotional engagement. This study highlights effective pedagogical strategies for implementing literary texts such as "To the Lighthouse" in the classroom, focusing on fostering critical thinking, enhancing reading comprehension, and encouraging personal connections to the text. These strategies would help students navigate the novel's complexities while engaging deeply with its themes and literary techniques. Before delving into "To the Lighthouse," it is essential to prepare students for the novel's thematic and stylistic challenges. Pre-reading activities can help activate prior knowledge and stimulate interest.
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- 2024
19. Re-Narration in John Minford's Translation of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'
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Linyu Zhang, Nor Shahila Mansor, Akmar Hayati Ahmad Ghazali, and Mengduan Li
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In the field of translation studies, while re-narration is commonly observed in translated works, there is a noticeable lack of research focusing on re-narration specifically within wenyan translations. Addressing this gap, this study aims to investigate how re-narration occurs in wenyan translation through the framing strategies employed by translators, using Sun Tzu's The Art of War as a classical wenyan literary example in China. John Minford's 2002 translation is selected for analysis due to its publication in the 21st century and its inclusion of commentary to aid English readers in contextual understanding. The theoretical framework of Baker's Narrative Theory guides this examination. A sample of 671 translation instances from Chinese to English is analysed. The findings reveal that selective appropriation emerges as the primary framing strategy in commentary translation, while the repositioning of participants emerges as the most prominent framing strategy in re-narration.
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- 2024
20. Research on Lifelong Learning Tendencies of University Students
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Abdulkadir Kirbas and Mesut Bulut
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The lifelong learning strategy is one of the most significant strategies suggested for bringing up modern persons in the appropriate circumstances. This study attempts to identify, in terms of several characteristics, the lifelong learning tendencies of the Turkish language, literature, and Turkish teacher candidates. 297 students studying Turkish Language and Literature as well as Turkish Teacher Certification at a university in the east of Turkey make up the study's sample in the survey model. The Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale (Gür Erdoan & Arsan, 2016) was used to gather the research's data. The information gathered throughout the study was analyzed using four distinct methods, including frequency, percentage, t-test for independent groups, and Kruskal Wallis H test. The statistical software package SPSS for Windows 22.00 was used to analyze the data. The study's findings revealed that, when it comes to gender-related factors, female teacher candidates had stronger lifelong learning tendencies than male teacher candidates. It was discovered that teacher candidates who read books frequently--every day, every other day, and once a week--had better propensities for lifetime learning than those who read books just once a month. It was found that teacher candidates with stronger dispositions toward lifelong learning studied scientific/academic, personal development, adventure, novel/story, and literary genres. Additionally, it was discovered through the research that there was no significant difference in the lifelong learning tendencies of teacher candidates about factors like age, the department or major of science they studied in college, the grade level they studied in, family income level, the education levels of their mothers and fathers, and preferred reading model. In general, it was found that teacher applicants scored extremely well on the lifelong learning tendencies scale when it came to their responses regarding their degrees of willingness to learn and grow over time.
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- 2024
21. The Iraqi EFL Learners' Awareness of the Role of Reading Literature in Their Creative Writing
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Batool Abdul-Mohsin Miri, Mahdi Kadhim Kareem, and Mariam Naji Mazloum Al-Ghazawi
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This study examines the extent of awareness among Iraqi English foreign language learners about the potential impact of reading literature on developing their creative writing abilities. Furthermore, this study investigates the relationship between those who partake in literature reading and their academic skills. It examines the participation of 120 Iraqi EFL learners currently enrolled in the faculties of Arts, Education, and Education in Qurna, affiliated with the University of Basrah. It employs a mixed methods approach, including a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The results demonstrate a significant correlation between reading literary texts and developing creative writing skills. Several literary elements enhance creative writing, including a comprehensive understanding of figures of speech, cultivating critical thinking skills, engaging in literature courses, practicing paraphrasing poetry, and exposure to various literary genres. The findings also demonstrate that EFL learners profoundly understand the impact of engaging with literary texts on their academic abilities.
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- 2024
22. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It, and the Future Ain't What It Used to Be: Lessons in Living with ChatGPT
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Bruce A. Craft
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This paper addresses the pedagogical implications of incorporating ChatGPT into the college English classroom specifically and, more broadly, into any college course with a focus on writing and research. Historically, advances in technology in the college classroom have characteristically promoted two juxtaposed reactions: relief and anxiety. Students customarily exhibit relief that a new technology will lessen their workload and embrace it wholeheartedly. Conversely, faculty often experience anxiety at how some newfangled computerized application will impact student learning. This juxtaposition creates barriers to an effective integration of new technology into the classroom. What students view as a cool new tool faculty see as a platform that promotes student slacking or, at worst, cheating. Such is the case with ChatGPT. I review generally the ethics of using ChatGPT as a classroom tool to conclude that the potential for advancing educational equity among students outweighs any potential for misuse of this quickly evolving technology. Relying upon established principles of classroom instruction as well as significant trial-and-error experience, I propose a pedagogical framework that allows for limited application of ChatGPT in selected scaffolded assignments. I further offer specific lesson plans to show how incorporation of ChatGPT into the college composition classroom can align with universally accepted goals, objectives, and student learning targets in both freshman composition and traditional literature courses, all while removing barriers and promoting equity. This paper provides faculty who are not already well-versed in ChatGPT with information to evaluate its efficacy for their courses and a flexible framework to include into their pedagogy easily modifiable ChatGPT-based lesson plans that present challenging yet fun scaffolded assignments for any writing or research curriculum.
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- 2024
23. Reinvigorating the Post-COVID Gen Z English Major
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Gaby Bedetti
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The decline in English majors has energized instructors to upskill for the post-COVID Gen Z student. Toward that end, this small-scale (n=20), one-semester study of an upper-division literature class identifies the preferred learning styles of English majors at a public comprehensive regional university in Kentucky. The participants represent national English major demographics. The research methods are quantitative and qualitative. Eight figures and an appendix are included. Three guidelines emerge for responding to the needs of Gen Z students: (1) keep communication brief, (2) co-create, and (3) interact in-person. The findings about English major learning preferences uphold cross-disciplinary research on active learning in the post-COVID era by indicating ways our teaching styles can keep pace with the needs of our changing majors. In addition to the participants' experience in the investigator's course, the survey collects their experience of teaching styles in six core courses in the English major. One drawback of the study is the small participant sampling. Future studies might investigate the difference between students' preferred learning styles and instructors' actual teaching styles. Building the English major back better calls for putting accepted theory into reskilled practices.
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- 2024
24. Investigation of the Screen Reading Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Turkish Language and Literature and Turkish Teacher Candidates Perspective
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Abdulkadir Kirbas and Mesut Bulut
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The rapid development of information technologies in the century we live in has caused significant changes in the field of education. Today, in the information age, traditional reading models with printed materials such as books, newspapers, and magazines have been replaced by reading computers, mobile phones, presentations, and billboards. Thus, information is conveyed to students at all levels through tools such as computers, the Internet, CDs, videos, and printed materials during the education process. It has become necessary to understand the importance of this type of reading, screen reading, in the process of native language teaching and to use it effectively in practice. In this study, it was aimed to examine the Screen Reading Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Turkish Language and Literature and Turkish Teacher Candidates in terms of variables such as age, gender, income level, frequency of internet use, etc. The sample group of this study in the survey model consists of 379 Turkish Language and Literature and Turkish Language Teacher candidates studying at a university in the east of Turkey. The research data was collected with the screen reading self-efficacy perception scale (Ulu, 2018), which has three subcategories: understanding, page management, and eye health dimension. As a result of the research, it is seen that the Screen Reading Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Turkish Language and Literature and Turkish Teacher Candidates are generally in favor of screen reading. Additionally, as a result of the research, it was concluded that Turkish Language and Literature and Turkish Language Teacher candidates' gender and basic computer skills differ in their screen reading perceptions.
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- 2024
25. Indigenous Wisdom-Based Literature at Buru Island: Situation and Need Analysis for Developing Indonesian Teaching Material
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Besse Darmawati, Sri Kusuma Winahyu, Rehan Halilah Lubis, Herianah, Pradicta Nurhuda, and Amran Purba
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The study of language and literature today are inseparable. Unfortunately, the phenomenon of Indonesian learning in junior high schools is in a hesitant position due to the lack of formulating literature as teaching material including indigenous wisdom-based literature that can threaten the extinction of indigenous literature. At Buru Island, literature learning is integrated into Indonesian subjects, but the teachers there are more focused on teaching language using general literature rather than indigenous wisdom literature. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the situation and needs analysis of the indigenous wisdom-based literature in teaching Indonesian language at Buru Island. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers employed Research and Development (R&D) applying Borg and Gall's steps. This method has certain procedures for the information collecting data related to the situation and needs analysis of 350 junior high school students through questionnaire distribution, interview, and observation toward the process of Indonesian teaching in the classroom. The situation of learning literature in the study involved (1) the law of local content learning, (2) curriculum, (3) syllabus, (4) lesson plan, (5) coursebooks, (6) teachers' competence, and (7) stakeholders' concerns, while, the students' need analysis involved (1) current ability and interest in literature, (2) feedback of students' ability and interest in literature, (3) literature skills priority, (4) learning style, (5) literature learning facilities and infrastructure, (6) literature materials on indigenous wisdom, (7) coursebook of indigenous wisdom-based literature, and (8) learning approaches and strategies based on indigenous wisdom. The result shows that there were still many shortages in implementing of indigenous wisdom-based literature learning in junior high schools, so students' ability and interest were lack. Therefore, the situation and need analysis becomes very important to be explored and to be a consideration in designing course books in indigenous wisdom-based literature for the future.
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26. Increasing Students' Self-Esteem Based on the Pragmatic Level of Linguistic Personality
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Ainur Kushkimbayeva, Altynay Tymbolova, Kalbike Yessenova, Indira Sultaniyazova, and Meirzhan Remetov
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Linguistic personality, in the domain of applied linguistics and discourse analysis, has risen to the form, content and style of a genre in the contemporary linguistic paradigm. It is determined by an individual's language behaviors, inter-cultural interactions, and self-expression, and is shaped by the educational environment. The current study aimed to examine the issues faced by students in developing their linguistic personality in higher education institutions and understand the impact on students' pragmatic self-esteem. The intent of this study was to raise students' awareness about the quality of an individual's speech and word choice, which can help them become more adept at assessing and analyzing their own speaking abilities. A descriptive research design was used in the study, employing cognitive and linguistic analysis along with content and semantic processing of the language data to investigate the linguistic personality and literary impact of the well-known Kazakh author Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961) on readers. Results made evident many ethnic realia, terms and phrases and images abound in Auezov's literary works. Students must be trained to study literary works and classic writers from their adolescence. This can help preserve literary continuity, foster the growth of future generations, and advance literary excellence. The study's findings will support educational initiatives that teach literature and languages and create efficient methods for developing a language's personality.
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27. Examining the 21st Century Skills Teaching Levels of Teacher Candidates
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Abdulkadir Kirbas and Mesut Bulut
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In this study, the 21st-century skills teaching levels of teacher candidates were assessed based on factors such as gender, age, department of study, daily internet usage, the reason for use, family income, residence, and whether or not they had previously heard of 21st-century skills. The research data was gathered using the ten-item 21st Century Skills Teaching Scale, which falls into the following categories: problem-solving, teamwork, innovation, and the benefits of technology Özyurt (2020). Frequency, percentage, t-test for independent groups, Mann Whitney U test, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and Kruskal Wallis H test were used to analyze the study's data. The study's findings showed that Turkish and Turkish Language and Literature teacher candidates' 21st-century skills teaching levels were at the level of slightly proficient in all areas, including problem-solving, teamwork, innovation, and technology use. It has been found that there are differences in the 21st-century skills teaching levels of teacher candidates based on their gender, department of study, residence, and prior understanding of these skills. They also differ based on whether or not they have taken courses on these topics throughout their undergraduate education. It was determined that there was no difference in the 21st-century skills teaching levels of teacher candidates based on factors such as family economic status, age, daily internet usage, and purpose.
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28. Literature in English as a Foreign Language: A Case Study with Higher Education Students
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Edita Bekteshi and Eliza Avdiu
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This paper shows that integrating various literary texts is a powerful tool for learning foreign languages. An experimental group with thirty-two students was exposed to poems, songs, long texts, short stories, novels, and movie reviews for one semester. The results reveal that students liked the topics dealing with current social developments since they initiated more debates and fostered students' critical thinking and creativity in a learner-centered environment, more independent learning, and more collaboration via the paraphrastic approach. All these led to language enhancement compared to the control group, comprised of thirty-one students. The ideas presented in this study are likely to inspire these students to incorporate a variety of literary texts and topics into their teaching courses beyond EFL classes, serving as guides and agents of social change.
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29. The Degree of How Arabic Language Teachers Take into Account the Skills of Literature Circles in Teaching Arabic Literature for the Secondary Students
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Ahed Hani Almsaiden
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The current study investigates the degree how Arabic language teachers bear in mind the skills of literature circles in teaching Arabic literature for the secondary students from their point of view. to achieve the aim of the study, the descriptive approach was used. The study sample consisted of Arabic language teachers who were studying in the schools of the Aqaba Education Directorate who were (50) male and female, divided into (25) male and (25) female, they were chosen randomly by 90% of the study population. Questionnaire was used to a consisting 30 of paragraph skills of literature circles. For answering research questions, the means, standard deviation and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been adopted. study results concluded that the skills of literature circles that were taken into account in the course of teaching Arabic literature registered high degree. Moreover, the results of this study indicated that there are statistically significant differences due to gender attributed to female, the effect of years of experience ranging from (6) to (10) years, and in terms of years of experience, there are no significant differences due to years of experience. The study recommended a number of recommendations based on the results of the analysis of the research.
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30. Interlanguage Pragmatic Competence of University Students: An Error Analysis of Apology Speech Act Strategies in Japanese Learners
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Nuria Haristiani and Devy Christinawati
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While acquiring a second language, learners may encounter challenges and difficulties in effectively carrying out verbal communication in the second language. Mastering the apology speech act is a challenge for L2 learners. The objective of this study is to identify the apology strategies utilized by individuals learning the Japanese language, as well as the specific types and underlying causes of errors produced during the execution of apologetic speech acts. The results of this study were gathered via the Discourse Completion Test (DCT), which encompassed a sample of 150 Japanese language learners. The gathered data were further classified using eight semantic formulas based on the research conducted by Haristiani and Sopiyanti (2019), while the various types and sources of error categorization were conducted based on the theories proposed by Corder (1981) and Richards (1975). The results of this study suggest that Japanese learners utilize the same primary strategies in apology speech acts. Furthermore, the study findings indicated that learners at the intermediate level displayed a higher frequency of errors in their speech compared to learners at the beginner levels and pre-intermediate levels, particularly in the strategy of taking responsibility. The main reason for this was primarily a lack of familiarity with the conventions of sentence structures, the proper use of language, and the appropriate use of expressions. The other sources of errors in language learning are likely to be ignoring language rule restrictions, incomplete application of rules, the learner's false hypothesis, overgeneralization, and language transfer. This study is anticipated to function as a point of reference for research in interlanguage pragmatics, second-language acquisition, and error analysis. Gaining comprehension of the various problems and difficulties encountered when performing the speech act of apology in Japanese can assist both learners and educators in reducing these errors.
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31. The Endangered Central Malay Folklore: A Medium for Internalizing Character Values in Indonesian Language and Literature
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Fitra Youpika, Sumiyadi, Tedi Permadi, Dadang Sunendar, and Jenny Yandryati
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This study raises the unity of the topics of folklore, literature teaching materials, and character education. It aims to explore character education values in endangered Central Malay folklores as a means of internalizing literature teaching. This qualitative study used five informants who not only knew the folklores but also knew the local culture of the Central Malay community in depth. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and note-taking. The data were analyzed using a thematic approach. The research findings show that Central Malay folklore has aesthetic, humanist, ethical, and religious values that can be internalized in literature learning as a form of effort to save Central Malay folklore from extinction through education. This research is not new. However, there is little information about Central Malay folklore in Indonesia. The findings provide benefits and recommendations to researchers, educators, teachers, and policymakers to collaborate and conduct further studies to save Central Malay folklore from extinction and survive in society. In addition, the importance of this research is to increase understanding and foster students' appreciation of local literature while being able to take and practice the character values contained in Central Malay folklore. [Note: The page range (48-63) shown on the PDF is incorrect. The correct page range is 48-62.]
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32. The Effect of Digital Stories in Teaching Historical Texts in Literature Class
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Mustafa Shokhayev, Bibaisha Nurdauletova, Adilet Kabylov, Rakhymzhan Turysbek, and Baktybay Zhailovov
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In this study, the effect of digital story applications on students' achievement, attitude and learning retention in teaching the works of literary figures who produced many literary works during the independence period of Kazakhstan was examined. In the study, pre-test-post-test model with control group from quasiexperimental models was used. In the study, Kabdesh Zhumadilov's "Daraboz", "Prometei alauy", Uzakbai Dospambetov's "Kyzyl zholbarys" and "Abylaidyn aq tuy", which came to the fore in the Kazakh Literature course during the independence period, Mukhtar Magauin's tetralogy "Shingis Khan", Raphael Niyazbek's novel "Kosem" and Tursinkhan Zakenuly's "Atilla" were taught with digital stories (experimental group) and lecture method (control group). After six weeks of experimental applications, the experimental group students who applied digital stories achieved a high level of achievement, learning retention and positive attitudes in the literature subjects of the Independent Period of Kazakhstan. Based on the results of the study, suggestions for the teaching of literature and language courses and new research are put forward.
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33. The Effects of Teaching Toponyms and Folk Geography Terms with Information Technologies in Literature Courses
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Aidana Ainabek, Bekzhan Abdualiuly, Samal Zhuanyshpaeva, Aliya Ongarbayeva, Aigul Aitymova, and Assem Belgibekova
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Kazakh and Nogai peoples have shared many similar experiences throughout history. In the theoretical dimension of this study, the common features of Kazakh and Nogai communities in the fields of language, culture and geography are analyzed in a comparative perspective. In the research dimension, the common history of Kazakh and Nogai peoples, language kinship and similarities in the formation of place names were discussed in detail, and the cultural and linguistic ties of these two communities were taught with the support of information technologies. In this context, a pre-test post-test design with control group was applied in the study. Experimental applications were applied in Kazakh Language and Literature course. Toponyms and folk geography terms in Kazakh and Nogai languages were taught with the support of information technologies in the experimental group and traditional teaching in the control group (6 weeks). Kazakh and Nogai Language Achievement Tests and Attitude towards the Course Scale were used as measurement tools in the research. Mann Whitney U test, one of the Non-Parametric statistics, was used to analyze the research data. According to the research findings, a significant difference was found in favor of the experimental group in terms of Kazakh Toponyms and Folk Geography Terms. However, no significant difference was found between the achievements of the experimental and control groups in teaching Nogai Toponyms and Folk Geography Terms. Finally, it was found that the information-supported teaching activities applied in the study positively affected the students' attitudes towards the course.
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34. Sense of Gloominess and Despair in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Poems: Textual and Analytical Approaches
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Mariwan Hasan, Rayan Karim, and Sara Muhsin
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Edgar Allan Poe's life was plagued by melancholy and disaster, which is evident in all of his writings. Among the many other poets of his generation, his solitude and individuality set him apart from the rest. He gave the Gothic genre a completely new meaning, making it both dark and significant at the same time. First, as an overview is given, of the 19th century, Edgar Allan Poe, and the tragedies that influenced his poetry. This study employs a comprehensive methodology focusing on the close reading of three of Poe's well-known poems: "The Raven," "A Dream within a Dream," and "Alone." By analyzing how sadness and sorrow are portrayed in these poems, the paper investigates the extent to which these emotions impacted Poe's writing. The analytical approach involves delving into the thematic and stylistic nuances of the selected poems, shedding light on the intricate ways in which Poe articulates his emotions. The purpose of this study is to tackle the sense of gloominess and sadness by employing textual and analytical approaches. The significance of the feelings of loss and sorrow in Poe's writings is addressed, drawing connections to Poe's life story. The findings demonstrate that Poe's writings occasionally converge with personal catastrophes, tragedies from his own life, and stories about death sadness, and grief come together on multiple occasions over the course of his demanding career. Concluding that sadness, sorrow, and everything that comes with it were indeed lurking in every one ofhis statements, this paper contributes to the existing literature by portraying the semi-autobiographical image of the author within the realm of his poetry. The textual and analytical approaches used in this study provide a nuanced understanding of how personal experiences influenced Poe's poetic expression, enriching our comprehension of the intricate relationship between his life and art.
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35. Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education. Literature and Translation
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Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano, Mazal Oaknín, Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano, and Mazal Oaknín
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Through examples of literary and audiovisual translation teaching practices, "Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education" places a novel emphasis on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) synergising the latest research advancements in EDI and translation curricula. The contributors revisit how languages and translation are currently taught and explore the relevance of EDI values from an interdisciplinary perspective. The chapters contain proposals of best teaching practices and teacher training guidance alongside examples of research-led teaching scenarios. There is a twofold rationale behind this volume: firstly, identifying links between literary and audiovisual translation teaching practices, which often demand great creativity inside and outside the classroom; and, secondly, placing greater emphasis on EDI-focused methods and themes. Following this approach, readers are invited to consider pressing societal issues such as (media) accessibility, intersectionality, LGBTQI+ and race, among others, and to embed them in their language and translation teaching practices.
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36. The Evolutionary Course of Mathematics Literary Writings: A Case Study
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Tzu-Shan Chang
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Attention to the disconnection between culture and mathematics has been addressed then and now (Wilder (in: Graves et al., Proceedings of the international congress of mathematicians, American Mathematical Society, 1950; Liu in Taiwan Journal of Mathematics Education, 8:79-88, 2021b). Recently, studies, workshops, and contests about an approach to relating culture and mathematics, such as incorporating mathematics history or mathematics writings in class, have emerged. However, although the effectiveness of such an approach was proved, employing it as instruction was still significantly ignored, not to mention the approach to creating mathematics literary writings--the goal that the Mathematics-Literature Contest aimed to achieve. Additionally, no empirical studies have systematically assessed the contest, especially from the cultural perspective. Through teachers' and students' perceptions, this qualitative case study aims to examine the impact of mathematics literary writings on the development of mathematics teaching/learning and the mathematics culture represented in the contest. Ten teachers and 20 students were interviewed. Data were analyzed by following Yin's five phases (2016). The study visualizes an evolutionary model of the contest, signifying the development of mathematics culture simultaneously. Results demonstrated that the contest caused teachers and students, who constituted the internal force, to consolidate the mathematics culture, which was enriched by the external force--to reinterpret the connection between mathematics as well as culture and the reform of general education. The developed mathematics culture included elements other than mathematics, such as the Chinese writings and their interactions with mathematics and life experiences. The findings hold implications for mathematics and general education: An interdisciplinary curriculum design can help cultivate teachers' and students' intellectual acumen; higher education communities worldwide must follow the trend.
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37. Literacy in the Disciplines: A Teacher's Guide for Grades 5-12. Second Edition
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Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Diane Lapp, Thomas DeVere Wolsey, and Diane Lapp
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This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents' development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines. Demonstrating why disciplinary literacies matter, the authors discuss ways to teach close reading of complex texts; discipline-specific argumentation, communication, and writing skills; academic vocabulary; and more. The book draws on revealing interviews with content-area experts and professionals in history, science, mathematics, literature, the arts, and physical education. Teacher-friendly tools include 21 reproducible forms that also can be downloaded and printed, "Try It On!" practice activities, lesson plans, chapter anticipation guides, and links to recommended online teaching videos. New to this Edition: (1) chapter on assessment; (2) chapter on disciplinary literacies beyond school--in civic, professional, and personal life; (3) expanded coverage of math, more attention to evidence and sources used in different disciplines, new and updated expert interviews, and advice on how both teachers and students can use AI tools productively; and (4) anticipation guides that invite reflection on key questions before, during, and after reading most chapters.
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38. Socialising Feminism and Diversity: The Use of Gender in Young Female Readers' Literary Attachments and Exclusions
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Luz Santa María
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This article discusses young women's reading practices and the social uses of literature for enabling gender equality that are present in those practices. Through a digital ethnography study where six young women collaborated as participants, I asked the data: How is literature, precisely its capacity to be used, conceived by young women readers in the search for gender equality? These women's reading engagements are tightly woven with a gender perspective. What are these readers embracing, and what are they rejecting by assuming a gender lens? By tracing these attachments and exclusions, I describe how books affect readers' perspectives and practices on their identities, their choice of authors, the cultural value of books, the social representations of books and reading as education. Participants' close and distant connections between the book and their desire for gender equality allow me to discuss the literature's pedagogical instrumentality and uselessness for achieving gender-inclusive literacy. Finally, I argue that a plural and non-functional approach to literature could offer young people heterogeneous and more creative forms to approach the challenge of gender equality.
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39. The Impact of Children's and Young Adult Literature Courses on Teachers' Selection of Global and Culturally Diverse Texts for the Classroom
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Lauren Aimonette Liang, Raven Cromwell, and Douglas J. Hacker
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This large-scale survey study examined how teachers select and integrate global and culturally diverse children's and young adult literature for their classrooms. Results from the survey captured self-reports of the selection process, suggesting if and how teachers were selecting and integrating this literature and reflecting possible influence from children's and young adult literature courses taken in teacher preparation programs. Taking general children's and young adult literature courses, and specific courses on diverse literature and global literature was found to be related to teachers' responses to questions centered on selecting, evaluating, and integrating global and culturally diverse literature. These courses may be pivotal to increase the needed integration of global and culturally diverse children's and young adult literature into secondary and elementary classroom instruction.
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40. Towards an Indigenous Literature Re-view Methodology: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Boarding School Literature
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Jessa Rogers
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This paper outlines the development of a new Indigenous research methodology: Indigenous Literature Re-view Methodology (ILRM). In the rejection of the idea that Western, dominant forms of research 'about' Indigenous peoples are most valid, ILRM was developed with aims to research in ways that give greater emphasis to Indigenous voices and knowledges, foregrounding Indigenous ways of being, doing and knowing. The advantages of ILRM include identifying themes as 'relevant' as opposed to 'common'. This method is based on relatedness, which is framed by Aboriginal ontology, axiology and epistemology, or ways of being, ways of doing and ways of knowing. Describing and employing ILRM to re-view Indigenous Australian boarding school literature, it was found there is a modest but robust body of research that has emerged in the past 20 years. Sixty-six written sources (i.e. journal articles, reports, theses and books) which were published in 2000 onwards and focussed on a topic of contemporary Indigenous boarding schooling were analysed. Sources that included a chapter or section on boarding as part of a publication focussed on other topics were not included in this re-view. Seven major themes emerged, including home, student experience, transitions, access, staff, health and evaluation. This paper focusses on the development and use of ILRM as an Indigenous methodology for researchers in Indigenous fields of study.
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41. Teaching 'Beloved:' From a Pedagogy of Séance to a Pedagogy of the Clearing
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Jonathan Litten
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Drawing on the experiences of teaching Beloved in an elite, college preparatory context, the following research paper works towards alternative approaches to teaching trauma and difficult histories. After exploring some of the limitations and applications of the education as séance approach, this paper constructs a framework for teaching difficult histories modeled after Toni Morrison's description of The Clearing, a place of embodied, radical subjectivity, and personal transformation within a community of love and support.
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42. Literature and Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Text Type and Teaching Approach
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Suzanne Graham, Pengchong Zhang, Julia Hofweber, Linda Fisher, and Heike Krüsemann
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This study considers the relative benefits for vocabulary learning of exposure to two types of texts--literary or nonliterary--used with two teaching approaches. These approaches were termed "functional and creative", respectively. In the former, learners' attention was drawn to factual information and linguistic features in order to develop their linguistic knowledge. In the latter, the aim was to stimulate learners' personal and emotional response, by drawing their attention to the text's emotional content and how language was used to express meaning. We analyzed data from 160 learners of French in eight schools in England. Learners in four schools studied French poems and those in another four studied French factual texts. Teachers in each text condition employed functional and creative methods of exploitation within a counterbalanced design. We assessed two types of vocabulary knowledge at pre- and posttest: meaning recall of vocabulary contained in the texts, and learners' general vocabulary size. Our results indicated learning gains across both text types. There were, however, important interactions between text type and teaching approach and between text type and the order in which the teaching approaches were used. Finally, we consider the implications of these findings for understanding of vocabulary learning through literature and for classroom practice.
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43. Enhancing Academic Achievement and Engagement through Digital Game-Based Learning: An Empirical Study on Middle School Students
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Meital Amzalag, Dorin Kadusi, and Shimon Peretz
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Abundant research has tried to understand how games can be designed and used effectively to improve the learning process and to examine the correlations between digital learning games and student motivation, engagement, and knowledge retention. The current study examined the correlation between learning through digital game-based learning (DGBL) and students' achievements, their sense of involvement, and motivation for learning. Using a quantitative approach, data was drawn from questionnaires and exams in two subjects: literature and language. Participants were 320 male and female students aged 12-14 attending a single middle school participated in the study. The students were randomly divided into three groups, each group was given a unique teaching and learning method. Group 1 studied and practiced using the traditional method (a teacher who teaches in the classroom and worksheets for practice), Group 2 studied with the traditional method but practiced with a digital game and Group 3 learned and practiced using a digital game. The findings showed that the students' attained significantly higher achievements in the group that was taught traditionally but practiced with a digital game. It was also found that when digital learning games are integrated into teaching and learning, the students' motivation and involvement in the class increased.
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44. The Development of Literature Learning Activities on the Topic of Rachathirat for Saming Pha Ram Arsa by Matthayomsuksa 1 Students Using the KWL Plus Technique with Cooperative Learning
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Thongma, Piya
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This research aimed: (1) to compare literature learning achievement on the topic of Rachathirat for Saming Pha Ram Arsa by Matthayomsuksa 1 students using the KWL Plus technique with cooperative learning, before and after learning; and (2) to study the level of satisfaction with the literature learning activities on the topic of Rachathirat for Saming Pha Ram Arsa by Matthayomsuksa 1 students using the KWL Plus technique with cooperative learning, before and after learning. Samples included 42 Matthayomsuksa 1 students from Satriwithaya School during semester 1 in academic year 2022. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the samples. The research instruments were a literature learning achievement test and a satisfaction survey. The statistics used for analysis comprised arithmetic mean (M), standard deviation (SD), and dependent t-test. The results of this research were as follows: (1) the literature learning achievement on the topic of Rachathirat for Saming Pha Ram Arsa by Matthayomsuksa 1 students after learning using the KWL Plus technique with cooperative learning was significantly higher than before learning at 0.05; and (2) overall satisfaction was found to be at the highest level.
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45. How Do We Regard Fictional People? How Do They Regard Us?
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Meghan M. Salomon-Amend and Lance J. Rips
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Readers assume that commonplace properties of the real world also hold in realistic fiction. They believe, for example, that the usual physical laws continue to apply. But controversy exists in theories of fiction about whether real "individuals" exist in the story's world. Does Queen Victoria exist in the world of "Jane Eyre," even though Victoria is not mentioned in it? The experiments we report here find that when participants are prompted to consider the world of a fictional individual ("Consider the world of Jane Eyre . . ."), they are willing to say that a real individual (e.g., Queen Victoria) can exist in the same world. But when participants are prompted to consider the world of a real individual, they are less willing to say that a fictional individual can exist in that world. The asymmetry occurs when we ask participants both if a real person is in the character's world and if the person "would" appear there. However, the effect is subject to spatial and temporal constraints. When the person and the character share spatial and temporal settings, interchange is more likely to occur. These results shed light on the author's implicit contract with the reader, which can license the reader to augment a fictional world with features that the author only implicates as part of the work's background. [This is the online first version of an article published in "Psychonomic Bulletin & Review."]
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46. Fantasies of Rousseau: A Lacanian View of Natural Education in and beyond 'Émile'
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Nicholas Stock
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Beginning with the question of the usefulness of Rousseau's "Émile" for contemporary education, this article explores the fantasy held by educational thinkers and practitioners regarding Rousseau's concept of Natural Education. Using French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's theory of fantasy, which is based on a relationship between the subject and the object of their desire, Nicholas Stock breaks down Natural Education in a number of ways. Initially, he explores the signifier of nature as an object of desire for both Rousseau and the contemporary educationalist. Next, he examines how Rousseau deploys the signifier in "Émile" and how this creates an ontology of the child that claims to understand their nature while designating them as Other. This point opens up discussion of desires in light of Lacan's examination of Marquis de Sade and sadism. Equally, in exploring Rousseau's dialectical relationship with Sade, Stock goes on to discuss how the fantasy of nature in Rousseau opens up possibilities of sadistic desire. Finally, he concludes the article by deconstructing the binary upheld between nature and culture through an exploration of pastoral literature. It is this pastoralism that gives a desirable quality to nature, thus sustaining its fantasy in educational circles.
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47. Dialogues on the Impossible: On Defining the 'Literary' in Pedagogy
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Uma Madhu
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This article discusses the relevance and construction of the concept of 'literariness' within pedagogy for an effective engagement with works of literature and literary theory. By juxtaposing Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic mode of understanding, with Bhartrhari's doctrine of the "dhvani" and the "sphota," this article attempts to draw upon these theories as resources through which 'totalizing' concepts could be effectively communicated. Through an analysis of Bhartrhari's idea of meaning-making interpreted through the lens of Bakhtin's creative understanding, this article attempts to make a case for considering the 'literary' as an underlying language principle within all works of literature. This article, while limited to a purely theoretical endeavour, aims to reframe some of our assumptions on the communication of wide-reaching, fundamental concepts within a given field.
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48. Queerying the Queensland Senior English Prescribed Text List
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Kelli McGraw and Lisa van Leent
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This paper presents an analysis of the prescribed text list for senior school English (including English as an Additional Language or Dialect, EAL/D) in Queensland, Australia. Queer understandings about the normalization of cisgender and heterosexuality provide a framework to analyze prescribed texts for adolescent learners. Hetero-cisgender norms are perpetuated through overrepresentation in endorsed texts. Representations of queer subjectivities or themes in the most highly promoted texts, those appearing on the examination list, are infrequent and minor. Reflexive justice thinking acknowledges the critique of merely identifying "who is missing" in the literature and extends the discussion to consider the complexities of the social, cultural, and political contexts that influence who gets to decide.
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49. Reflection and Projection: Inclusive and Diverse Texts in the English Language Arts Curriculum
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Kimberly R. Stephens, Karyn A. Allee, and Vicki L. Luther
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Engaging students in the reading process is challenging when they are unable to connect to texts. It is important to provide inclusive and diverse texts (IDTs) in the language arts curriculum. To promote a positive reading experience, all students need to read IDTs with non-stereotypical depictions of girls, women, people of Color, and more. This is challenging when obstacles such as limited resources, a lack of teacher preparation to meet challenges, and stakeholder opposition to "non-traditional" literature may hinder educators' efforts to include IDTs. Using effective instructional strategies, increasing home and school literacy connections, and providing focused teacher training can help overcome these obstacles. Literary texts that reflect multiple identities will promote a more equitable representation of all students within the classroom community. This paper discusses possible strategies and approaches for including and engaging with IDTs and resources educators can use to address instructional challenges and find high-quality texts.
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50. 'Spilling Tea': A Critical Feminist Reclamation of Gossip in Literature and Media
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Katherine Batchelor, Kelli Rushek, and Julia Beaumont
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In this discussion, we argue for those who are literacy educators to reframe gossip as a dialogic, feminist act in their teaching and interpretation of gossip as framed in the literature they teach in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Reframing gossip as a feminist act invites meaning-makers to view those conversations and generative dialogues discursively gendered in deficit ways (or gossip) as proactive, productive, and powerful tools of connection between and within societies and communities. We share how we centered and created through a critical feminist lens, an ELA curriculum that supports gossip as a literary tool that drives narratives in plot formation, as well as a means to enhance characters' positions, personalities, allies, and enemies within a story. Most importantly, we use gossip as an analytical tool to reframe and promote gender equity, guiding preservice teachers and adolescents in critical analysis of the innumerable ways systems and institutions of power and privilege -- such as race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality -- intersect in the fight for gender equality. First, we will discuss our guiding theoretical framework of critical feminist pedagogy to examine the ELA curriculum. Next, we share how the development of a curricular unit on reframing gossip in literature unfolded organically through a monthly Saturday workshop called "Writing Us In: Developing Critical Literacy Curriculum for ELA Classrooms." Then, we showcase how one preservice ELA teacher applied the critical feminist lenses examined within the workshop space to develop a linked text set and subsequent ELA curricular unit with the aims of her future students to critically analyze, from a feminist lens, how gossip is portrayed in society and how it is framed in literature. We end with a discussion of how our spotlight student reflects on this project and her key takeaways.
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51. The Genesis of Aesthetic Sensitivity in Carolina de Jesus: Challenges for Educators
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Erika Natacha Fernandes de Andrade, Marcus Vinicius da Cunha, and Tatiana Cristina Santana Viruez
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Brazilian writer Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) was born in a rural community and spent most of her life in a slum. Despite this, her literary work achieved remarkable editorial success, having its value recognized by critics and academic circles. This paper analyzes Carolina Maria de Jesus's autobiographical narratives in the light of John Dewey's aesthetic theory, with the purpose of investigating the factors responsible for the development of her aesthetic sensitivity -- intellectual and emotional dispositions favorable to involvement with artistic practices. The results suggest that Carolina Maria de Jesus's literary skills, which express not only individual but also collective yearnings, resulted from the incentive she received to think about things that do not exist and from her relationship with people who favored the formation of a personality open to varied experiences. Such results are presented as requirements for a democratic and humanist education that aims at the flowering of aesthetic sensitivity and encourages educators and students to believe in their creative potential.
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52. Preserving the Canon: Great Books Programs at America's Colleges and Universities
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Historically, higher learning was based on the study of the Great Works of thought of the Western canon. These works span a broad range of time, from the Classical period, to early Christianity, and the Enlightenment, all the way to the 20th century. Presently, close study of Great Works is less common at most mainstream colleges and universities. Depending on the general education programs at a given institution, or students' particular course work, it is very possible for students to graduate from college with little to no exposure to the foundational texts of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, or Dante, to name a few. If students desire a deep and broad understanding of the Great Works, they must actively seek it out. Although Great Works-specific coursework is less available, however they do still exist. The Martin Center researched 48 academic programs that involve a close study of Great Books of Western thought. Although some of the programs in this report are not advertised as Great Books programs, their curricula include an in-depth study of core texts. Uniting these programs is a desire for wisdom and understanding, and the belief that engaging with the Great Books can aid in this pursuit.
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53. Assessment Beliefs and Practices of Literature-in-English Teachers in Nigeria
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Eucharia Okwudilichukwu Ugwu
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This study examined secondary school teachers' beliefs about the purpose, importance, and principles of assessment. Forty-seven Literature-in-English teachers in the Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria, were sampled using the mixed-method research design. Literature-in-English Teachers' Assessment Beliefs Questionnaire (r = 0.76) and Literature-in-English Students' Class-Assessment Checklist were used in collecting quantitative data. Ten teachers were interviewed. Analyses of data suggest that teachers considered assessment an essential element of teaching, but they could not translate their beliefs into practice. Possible causes of the inconsistencies were not established, suggesting areas for future research. Some recommendations were made.
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54. The Effect of Traditional and Online Learning Approaches on the Survival and Transmission of the Oral Culture, Students' Attitude and National Values
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Nurdauletova, Bibaisha, Aimukhambet, Zhanat, Saparbaikyzy, Sholpan, Kamarova, Nagbdu, and Tolegenuly, Bekbolat
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This study examines the effects of providing students with the literature-related foundations of knowledge revealed in the works of the famous Zhyrau who lived in the in the city of Aktau, Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, through online and traditional teaching. For this purpose, pretest-posttest model with study control group was applied. The study was conducted on the subject of "The Zhyrau and Their Place in Kazakh Language Literature" at the Department of Kazakh Philology in the 2022 academic year and lasted 6 weeks. According to the research findings, it has been seen that online supported blended teaching has a positive effect on the success of the course and the retention of what has been learned in the subject of "The Zhyrau and Their Place in Kazakh Language Literature" compared to traditional teaching. In another finding of the study, there was no significant difference in the attitudes and perceptions of national values of the participant student groups on the subject of "The Zhyrau and Their Place in Kazakh Language Literature". In both groups, students in the experimental group with online supported blended teaching and the control group students in the traditional teaching achieved very high posttest course attitude and national value perception scores. Online, blended and traditional activities on "The Zhyrau and Their Place in Kazakh Language Literature" have positively and highly affected students' attitudes and perceptions of national values.
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55. By Way of the Heart: Cultivating Empathy through Narrative Imagination
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Dias, Dany
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When trying to promote empathy, it is not sufficient to merely learn about other people and cultures if we seek to understand them better (Case, 1993). As a language arts teacher and researcher, the author sought to explore the potential for multicultural literature to expand adolescent learners' worldviews and shape their perceptions as global citizens through classroom inquiry. This doctoral research features the case study of her Grade 8 class. Findings revealed that through narrative imagination (Nussbaum, 1997), learners' experiences led to emerging themes of empathy, insight, and agency. This article focuses on the most prominent of these themes: empathy.
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56. CLIL and Critical Thinking through Literature: Activities on Poems about Argentina's Military Dictatorship
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Baudi, Ileana Soledad, García, Erica Sabrina, and Moyano, Naiara Carolina
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a relatively novel approach to L2 learning. Designed under this approach, this paper proposes a set of three activities that seek to foster secondary level students' critical thinking, creativity, and intrapersonal skills. English language learning is integrated with the specific subjects of Literature, by analyzing and creating poetry, and History, discussing poems by Marcelo Gelman, Osvaldo Balbi, and Joaquín Enrique Areta, who were victims of the final Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983).
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57. Effects of Folklore Teaching with Constructivist and Computer-Assisted Teaching Method
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Rakhmetova, Bazar, Kaliyev, Aibek, Duisebekova, Aisaule, Koldasbaeva, Zina, and Galymzhanova, Zaure
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In this study, the effects of constructivist learning and computer-assisted instruction on the achievement and attitudes of high school 2nd grade students in learning folk literature unit were examined by comparing with traditional teaching methods. The sample of the study consisted of 60 high school 2nd grade students studying in a high school in Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. The folk literature unit was taught by using constructivist learning and computer assisted instruction method in the experimental group, while traditional teaching methods were used in the control group. Constructivist teaching was organized according to the 5E model and associated with computer assisted instruction. The experimental applications of the research lasted 7 weeks. Folk literature achievement test and attitude scale towards folk literature were used to collect the data. As a result of the study, it was found that the students who studied with constructivist learning and computer-assisted instruction method achieved higher achievement levels in learning the folk literature unit compared to the students who studied with traditional teaching methods. The study also found out that constructivist learning and computer-assisted instruction practices significantly increased students' attitudes towards folk literature subjects.
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58. Investigating Competencies and Attitudes towards Online Education in Language Learning/Teaching after COVID-19
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Yessenova, Kalbike, Baltabayeva, Zhanalik, Amirbekova, Aigul, Koblanova, Aiman, Sametova, Zhanakul, and Ismailova, Fariza
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With the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected the whole world, the digitalization process has accelerated and the importance of stakeholders having online learning competencies in the learning-teaching process has increased. At the same time, the functioning of education and training globally has been affected by this process and courses in language and literature departments have had to be moved to digital platforms during the COVID-19 process. In this study, the competencies and attitudes of academics, teachers and students in the field of language towards online education after COVID-19 are examined with a comparative approach. In this context, with a cross-sectional approach, the study was conducted on lecturers, teachers and students working in the field of language in different cities of Kazakhstan. In the study, online education competencies and attitudes were analyzed with t-test according to gender variable and F-test according to status factor. According to the findings of the study, it was found that the participants' attitudes towards online education after COVID-19 were positive, while their competencies were at a medium level. Language field participants' attitudes towards online education did not differ according to gender and status factors. However, significant differences were found in terms of online education competence according to the gender and status of the participants.
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59. The Legacy of Ancient Cultures: Rational Concepts in Ancient Chinese and Ancient Greek Mythology and Their Significance in Modern Literature
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Wang, Xiao Yu
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This study examines the legacy of ancient cultures by comparing the logical principles of Chinese and Greek mythology. Using the structural analysis method of Levi-Strauss and a narrative literature review methodology (based on a review of 69 articles), we identified seven factors, including fate, heroism, gods, nature, ethics, symbolism, and allegory. Our findings suggest that, despite cultural differences, ancient Chinese and Greek mythology share similarities that continue to influence contemporary writing. These issues have both practical and theoretical ramifications for authors, historians, and consumers interested in the connection between mythology and literature. However, this study has several shortcomings, including a lack of primary sources and an emphasis on Chinese and Greek civilizations. Future research could examine the legacies of other ancient societies as well as the impact of mythology on various literary genres. This study contributes to the ongoing discussion regarding the significance of historical and cultural legacies and their continued relevance in contemporary society.
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60. The Influence of the Sumdag on Traditional Mongolian Language and Dharma Literature
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Dashlkhagvaa, Ganbold and Orosoo, Myagmarsuren
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Traditional Mongolian Language evolved through the history taking in its purview the Buddha's teaching of the Dharma through the route of the Tibetan language. This research study examined the chronology of the evolution of the Mongolian language and literature, the influence of Tibetan on its grammar and on the written Mongolian. The focus of the study was however on the creation of a written Mongolian language based on the translations of the ten sutras of knowledge of the Tripitaka and the words of foreign origin borrowed from Sanskrit and Tibetan into Mongolian. The findings revealed that the Mongolian grammar, often compared with the content of Sumju, was influenced by the primary grammar of Tibetan and Ogtorgui Maani, the main grammar of written Mongolian. The study also revealed that "Sumdag" which comprised two sutras, Sumju and Dagjug, assisted in the translations of the Buddhist scriptures into Tibetan and Mongolian languages. The "Sumdag" also enriched the Mongolian vocabulary by classification of vowels and consonants; and revived the grammar of ancient texts by developing new grammatical terminology and definitions. This study would provide useful insights to linguists, teachers and students about the influence of "Sumdag" on Traditional Mongolian Language and Dharma Literature.
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61. Re-Orienting Rhetorical Theory in an Asian American Rhetorics Seminar
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Sano-Franchini, Jennifer
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Asian American Rhetoric and Representation was a graduate-level course taught at Virginia Tech in 2019. The course overviewed disciplinary conversations and concerns in and around Asian American rhetorical studies over time, with a focus on the affordances of Asian American rhetorical theory for the study of rhetoric and writing more broadly. Understanding that established disciplinary and formal/genre divisions within academia are often the result of Eurowestern canonical and institutional histories, the course included readings from varied fields. Jennifer Sano-Franchini and her students e discussed academic scholarship in ancient and contemporary rhetoric and writing studies, Asian American studies, Asian American literature, and Asian philosophy alongside literary and artistic works. In addition, students dialogued with virtual guest speakers in the field. This article describes the course and reflects of what Asian American rhetoric can contribute to the study of rhetoric and writing.
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62. Reviewing the Literature on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): An Academic Literacies Perspectiv--Part 2
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Healey, Mick and Healey, Ruth L.
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There are few sources that critically evaluate the ways of reviewing the literature on scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). We use an academic literacies perspective as a lens with which to explore the ways that literature reviews may be undertaken. While reviewing the literature is often presented as a scientific, objective process, the reality is much messier, nuanced, and iterative. It is a complex, context-dependent procedure. We provide a practical, critical guide to undertaking SoTL literature reviews. We distinguish between embedded reviews that present a review contextualising the research that follows, as in most SoTL articles; and freestanding reviews that synthesise research on specific topics. We discuss the nature of embedded reviews, and evaluate systematic and narrative review approaches to undertaking freestanding reviews. We contend that the claims of the superiority of systematic reviews are unjustified. It is important that contextually-sensitive judgements and interpretation of texts associated with narrative reviews are seen as central to the reviewing process, and as a strength rather than a weakness. This article complements a separate one, where we apply an academic literacies lens to reviewing the literature on searching the SoTL literature. Together, they present a narrative review of searching and reviewing the SoTL literature undertaken systematically. We call for studies investigating the lived experiences of SoTL scholars. We illustrate this argument with an auto-ethnographic account of the often-serendipitous nature of our hunt for sources in preparing this review and the way our thinking and writing evolved during the writing of the two articles. [For Part 1, see EJ1375465.]
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63. Searching the Literature on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): An Academic Literacies Perspective--Part 1
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Healey, Mick and Healey, Ruth L.
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There are few references that critically evaluate the different ways of searching the literature on scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), or how these are related to researchers' goals. We use an academic literacies perspective as a lens with which to explore the different ways that literature searches may be undertaken. While searching the literature is often presented as a scientific objective process, the reality is much messier, nuanced, and iterative. It is a complex, context-dependent process. We provide a practical, critical guide to undertaking SoTL literature searches and argue that these need to be seen as socially constructed processes. There is no one right way of searching the SoTL literature. The academic literacies perspective leads us to emphasise the variety of different purposes for carrying out a literature search. We distinguish between using comprehensive tools and selective sources. We end by arguing that there is a need for SoTL researchers to be less insular and take purposeful steps to search for, cite, and amplify diverse voices. This article complements a separate one where we review and synthesise the SoTL literature. [For Part 2, see EJ1375466.]
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64. Effects of Online Learning and Digital Conversation-Based Activities on the Transfer of Cultural Values in Language and Literature Classes
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Sarekenova, Karlygash, Aimukhambet, Zhanat, Malikov, Kuanyshbek, Salikzhanova, Shynar, Zhylkybay, Gulimzhan, and Assanbayeva, Yeldana
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In this study, the effect of Online Learning and Digital Conversation-Based Activities method on students' achievement, attitudes and perceptions of cultural values in language and literature courses was examined. The study group consisted of 2 branches studying in the 3rd grade of a high school in Astana province in the 2022 academic year. 64 high school third grade students participated in the study. In the study in which quasi-experimental research model was used, post-test control group design was used. In this context, Online Learning And Digital Conversation-Based Activities in the experimental group and traditional teaching activities in the control group were applied for 6 weeks. As a result, when the two classes were considered independently of each other, it was found that the students in the group applying the Online Learning And Digital Conversation-Based Activities program achieved higher academic achievement, attitude towards the course and cultural value perception gains compared to their peers in the control group.
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65. The Applicability of Turkic World Texts in Secondary School Turkish Textbooks in the Context of Literacy
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Minara Aliyeva Çinar and Yakup Çevik
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The study aimed to investigate the effect of the course content developed based on Turkic World literary texts on students' academic achievement and attitudes towards Turkic World texts in the 8th-grade Turkish course. Gender and age differences in attitudes toward Turkic World texts were also examined. A quantitative research approach with a weak experimental design was used. Fifteen students studying in a public school in Bursa, Turkey, participated in the study. The experimental procedure applied "Course Content Prepared with Turkic World Literary Texts (CCPTWLT)" for six weeks, while the researcher used the "Turkic World Literary Texts Achievement Test (TWLTAT)" and "Attitude Scale for Turkic World Literary Texts (ASTWLT)" as pre-test and post-test to reveal the effect of the experimental procedure were developed by the researcher. Mann-Whitney U and T-Test were used to analyze the data. The study results show a significant increase in students' academic achievement by implementing CCPTWLT (p=0.003). However, no significant difference was found between the pre-test and the post-test, although students' attitudes increased in the Interest sub-dimension (p>0.05), Turkic World sub-dimension (p>0.05), Language of Texts sub-dimension (p>0.05), Pronunciation dimension (p>0.05) of the Attitude Scale after CCPTWLT practices. Finally, the study revealed that the ASTWLT scores did not differ significantly according to age and gender.
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66. An Examination of the Attitudes of Teacher Candidates Towards Mobile Learning
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Abdulkadir Kirbas and Mesut Bulut
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This study aims to ascertain how potential Turkish language and literature and Turkish teacher candidates tend to mobile learning. In this context, it investigates whether there are any notable differences in these aspiring teachers' attitudes toward mobile learning based on elements like gender, age, major field of study, grade level, personal tablet ownership, computer ownership, income level, social media usage, and enrollment in computer courses. A relational survey model, a quantitative research method, is used in this study. 209 females and 65 males who willingly joined the study at a university in Turkey's east comprise its participant pool. The findings reveal that prospective teachers of Turkish language and literature, as well as Turkish language teaching, strongly endorse the statements in the Mobile Learning Attitude Scale. Furthermore, their attitudes towards mobile learning do not exhibit significant variations concerning variables such as gender, major field of study, grade level, personal tablet ownership, possession of a computer, income level, social media usage, and participation in a computer course. Nevertheless, a noteworthy difference is identified in attitudes towards mobile learning across different age groups. The outcomes imply that while substantial distinctions exist among age groups, the attitudes of prospective teachers in the aforementioned fields do not significantly differ in terms of demographic or technological aspects. These results underscore the importance of integrating mobile learning into teaching and learning. Encouraging positive attitudes towards mobile learning and conducting additional research on this subject are strongly recommended.
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67. Investigation of Teacher Candidates' Tendencies towards Digital Speech
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Abdulkadir Kirbas and Mesut Bulut
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This study aims to examine Turkish language and literature and Turkish teacher candidates' tendencies towards digital speech. In this context, participants' digital speech tendencies were analyzed in terms of various variables. These variables include gender, the department they study at the university, whether they have previously participated in an online meeting or program as a speaker, social media use, whether they have taken a course on "communication, effective communication, human relations and communication, oral expression, speech training", and digital speech skills. Variables include having prior knowledge, preferring face-to-face communication, preferring speaking, and preferring online/distance communication. The research was conducted on a total of 296 teacher candidates (231 female, 65 males) studying at a university in eastern Turkey. The study was conducted in the survey model. According to the results of the research, teacher candidates' digital speech tendencies were determined in terms of variables such as department, having previously participated in an online meeting as a speaker, using social media applications, having taken undergraduate-level communication, effective communication, human relations and communication, oral expression, speaking training" courses. However, significant differences were found in terms of some variables such as gender, level of knowledge about digital speech, preference for face-to-face communication and speaking, and preference for online and distance communication. In addition, it was determined that 80% of the teacher candidates had a medium level of digital speech tendencies. These results provide an important perspective for better understanding and developing the digital speech tendencies of teacher candidates.
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68. Hands up for ASL Literature in K-12 Education
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Brad S. Cohen, Pauline M. Ballentine, Ernest C. Willman, Brian W. Leffler, Holly V. Metcalf, and Ashley N. Greene
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During the summer of 2022, Ashley Greene, a professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and a co-author of this article, began a discussion on American Sign Language (ASL) literature with her doctoral students. The students, most of whom had backgrounds in K-12 deaf education or ASL education, explored what ASL literature means, how such literature can be identified and classified, how technology has changed its nature, and how it can be used in the classroom. The discussion was not easy, and a consensus was not reached. Pauline Ballentine, a long-time teacher and researcher and coauthor of this article, was among Greene's students. After several weeks of daily discussion, we--teacher and doctoral students, all of whom helped author this piece--concluded that the problem lies partly with the educational system.
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69. Digital Literary Readings for the Promotion of Gender and Affective-Sexual Diversity: Predictors of its Didactic Recommendation in Secondary Education
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Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
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This study analyses the frequencies of inclusion of digital literary-educational proposals on the diversification of sex/gender/sexuality expectations by in-service Spanish teachers of secondary education (n=436), and the predictors that determine this inclusion. Based on the application of the instrument Digital Literary Education and the Construction of Gender Identities (DLECGI), the study is developed in non-experimental designs of a cross-sectional nature, and at the relational, explanatory and predictive levels of research, insofar as it seeks to reveal the socio-demographic, formative and didactic causes of the phenomenon or event of interest, and its degree of occurrence. The results obtained indicate the existence of a profile of teachers who promote the recommendation of this type of digital reading based on their belonging to non-binary gender groups with previous training in co-education and equality, and with explicit didactic stances on controversial issues. Likewise, the relationship between socio-demographic variables and the didactic positioning of teachers on the recommendation of digital readings on affective-sexual diversity shows that initial and/or ongoing specific training in co-education and equality is a key predictor of this relationship. These findings attest to the fact that the visibility and recognition of identity plurality in literary education necessarily involves the proposal of counter-hegemonic models regarding gender and affective-sexual identity. In this regard, teacher training must continue to progress towards the adoption of inclusive didactic approaches within the framework of educational principles for democratic citizenship, regardless of the gender or personal and social identity that defines these teachers.
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70. Automatic Item Generation for Online Measurement and Evaluation: Turkish Literature Items
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Ayfer Sayin and Mark J. Gierl
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Developments in the field of education have significantly affected test development processes, and computer-based test applications have been started in many institutions. In our country, research on the application of measurement and evaluation tools in the computer environment for use with distance education is gaining momentum. A large pool of items is required for computer-based testing applications that provide significant advantages to practitioners and test takers. Preparing a large pool of items also requires more effort in terms of time, effort, and cost. To overcome this problem, automatic item generation has been widely used by bringing together item development subject matter experts and computer technology. In the present research, the steps for implementing automatic item generation are explained through an example. In the research, which was based on the fundamental research method, first a total of 2560 items were generated using computer technology and SMEs in field of Turkish literature. In the second stage, 60 randomly selected items were examined. As a result of the research, it was determined that a large item pool could be created to be used in online measurement and evaluation applications using automatic item generation.
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71. Fostering Creativity-Convergence Competency in an EFL Multiliteracies-Based Literature Classroom
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Pirae Kim
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The present study explores the educational potential of multiliteracies-based pedagogy to enhancing pre-service teachers' creativity-convergence competency in an EFL literature classroom. To examine the pedagogical effect, both quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed, including the pre- and post- creativity-convergence competency tests, participants' course evaluation questionnaire, and students' reflective journals. The results from the quantitative analysis indicated that multiliteracies pedagogy employed in the EFL literature classroom enhanced participants' creativity-convergence competency significantly (p<0.05) in its all components, including creativity, problem-solving ability, convergent thinking ability, and self-efficacy. The findings in the analysis of participants' views on the positive potentials of the multiliteracies pedagogical approach in fostering learners' creativity-convergence competency were identified as follows: (1) use of multimodal resources in the communication process promoted their creativity-convergence competency, (2) transformative practices served as the facilitator to foster creativity-convergence competency, and (3) critical literacy practices helped them develop problem-solving ability and self-efficacy. The paper ends with some pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research.
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72. Development of the Discourse Competence through Literary Texts
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La?cu, Tatiana
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The aim of the article is to present a study of the literary text from a discursive perspective focusing on the development of the discourse competence in the English language. It is a new approach in the EFL methodology which highlights the relation between the holistic understanding of the comunication, social phenomena and the study of language structures in their use. The European educational policies favour the literary text as a key factor in boosting the students' communicative skills. Thus, the paper presents a theoretical framework of the researches in the field and shares our vision on the discourse competence which places the discourse component on the central position in the process of developing the communicative competence. The text interpretation through a discursive approach constitutes an effective tool for examining the language correlation with the intent and sociocultural context. In this regard, in the second part of the article, we offer some concrete didactic activities related to the necessary conditions (such as the context and communicative situations) and discourse-oriented practices (activities simulating real needs outside the classroom) used for an optimal development of students' discourse competence.
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73. Assessing the Scope: Examining How Primary Teachers Use Multicultural Texts for Classroom Read Alouds
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Jennifer Lemke and Chris Wilcoxen
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As diversity grows in schools, educators must consider how to create environments where students develop respect and empathy toward others. Integrating high quality multicultural literature provides meaningful experiences for students to investigate society and acknowledge and interrogate their own beliefs and biases. While many teachers acknowledge the importance of incorporating literature that reflects the diverse populations of schools, effectively implementing multicultural literature into the learning environment is both a complex and analytical task. This phenomenological research design examines how primary teachers use multicultural texts for classroom read alouds.
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74. Multiple Pathways to Perspectival Learning: Children's Literature in Preservice Teacher Education
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Kwangok Song, Annamary Consalvo, Ann D. David, Angela J. Stefanski, and Carolyn W. Hitchens
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Using two case studies, we highlight preservice teachers' (PSTs) perspectival understanding to consider what experiences, or combinations of experiences, children's literature supports PSTs' journeys in building empathy in their teaching. The notion of "perspectival understanding" guided our examination as we unpacked PSTs' responses to opportunities to engage with multiple perspectives that existed in diverse children's literature. Two individual literacy courses served as the foundation for this analysis. The findings of the first case suggest that PSTs shifted their views on the roles of children's literature, gaining an understanding of how multicultural literature could more equitably represent and support diverse students' learning. In the second case, PSTs' participation in book club discussions of chapter books depicting immigrant children's experiences revealed that they were able to engage in perspective-taking to some extent by focusing on protagonists without considering other supporting characters. Productive future inquiries could include assignment-level, course-level, and semester-level study of teacher education programmatic redesign to center empathy, leading to the development of perspectival understanding, toward children from historically marginalized communities.
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75. Teacher Candidates' Views on the 'Text Analysis Methods' Course in the Context of Language and Literature Education
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Mesut Bulut
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the views of prospective teachers of Turkish language and literature on the "text analysis methods" course. In this study, which used the qualitative research approach, the case study design was used. 13 teacher candidates who are enrolled in the Turkish language and literature teaching program at a university in Turkey make up the research's participant group. The researcher used the literature review and expert comments to build a semi-structured interview form to get the participants' opinions regarding the "text analysis methods" course. The data were examined using a content analysis method. The findings indicate that the "text analysis methods" course provides a significant learning opportunity that presents potential instructors with a range of viewpoints. The course is successful in developing students' abilities to comprehend, analyze, interpret, and think critically about literary works as evidenced by the participants' varied viewpoints of its objectives and content. Participants made a point of emphasizing how the course's material was taught using cutting-edge scientific methods. Additionally, it was claimed that using relevant and trustworthy sources helped pupils develop scientific thinking skills. The requirement for more time and space that promote in-depth learning and support the accomplishment of instructional objectives is evident from differences in opinion regarding lesson duration. To improve the effectiveness of the course and give students a deeper learning experience, pre-service teachers advise using technological resources, interactive learning techniques, and analytical approaches. These results demonstrate how the "text analysis methods" course presents a significant opportunity for teacher candidates to develop their expertise in using literary texts to accomplish a variety of learning objectives. In light of this, it was determined that the research can offer information for the advancement of Turkish language and literary education as well as program updates. [For the full proceedings, see ED656038.]
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76. The Representation of Iran (Persia) in Young Children's Picture Books in North America
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Mahshid Tavallai
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There are a few empirical studies that examine the portrayal of the Middle East and its people in young children's picture books. Many of these books depict Muslim life and celebrations without delving into the specificities of each Middle Eastern country. This study, which focuses on Iran as a non-Arab Muslim majority Middle Eastern country, investigates how Iran and its diverse cultures are represented in children's picture books published in North America. The analysis was conducted on a sample of 27 picture books written in English between 2000 and 2021, targeting children aged three to nine. The findings reveal that a significant number of these books revolve around Nowruz celebrations (the Persian New Year) or ancient Persia, often presented through popular folktales. These findings underscore the need for books that depict the contemporary lives of Iranians, both within and outside the country, through narratives and illustrations.
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77. The Effect of a Social Studies Course Supported by Stories on Critical and Empathetic Thinking Skills
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Gürkan Ercan, Burcu and Hakkoymaz, Sakine
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This study aims to examine the effects of a social studies course supported by stories on the critical and empathetic thinking skills of 4th-grade students. The study was conducted according to the intervention design, a method used in mixed-method research. The 10-week study was conducted in two public schools in Gaziantep in the 2018-2019 academic year. The Critical Thinking Achievement Test developed by Egmir and Ocak (2016) and the Empathy Scale for Children developed by Bryant and adapted to Turkish by Yilmaz-Yüksel (2004) were used to collect quantitative data. Semi-structured interview forms, semi-structured observation forms,and a research diary were used to collect qualitative data. The qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis and descriptive analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed by Shapiro-Wilks test, T-test for unrelated measurements, T-test for related measurements, and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. In addition, the effect size of the experimental intervention was calculated using eta squared (n [superscript 2]) for parametric tests and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (r) for non-parametric tests. The significance level was taken as 0.05 for statistical analysis. The study results show that using stories in the social studies course significantly impacted the development of students' critical and empathetic thinking skills in the experimental group and the experimental intervention had a high effect size. In addition, the students' opinions suggest that cognitive and affective features, language skills, and content such as empathy, interpretation, deduction, fast and meaningful reading, analyzing, knowledge acquisition, inferring, effective responding, and listening can be developed by enriching the social studies courses with stories.
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78. Reifying, Disorienting and Restoring Gender Binaries in Dialogic Literature Discussions
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Aviv Orner, Hadar Netz, and Adam Lefstein
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Dialogic pedagogy aims to bring multiple voices and perspectives into conversation, to create a classroom environment inclusive of multiple student identities, and to challenge hegemonic approaches to knowledge. As such, it seems particularly well-suited for interrogating gender binaries and enhancing gender equity. Through micro-ethnographic discourse analysis of video-recorded literacy lessons, this study examines how traditional gender categories were reified and/or disrupted in literacy discussions in four Israeli elementary school classrooms experimenting with dialogic pedagogy. We found students and teachers frequently relying upon gender stereotypes in the participant examples they offered and in their interpretations of the story, "Fly, Eagle, Fly," in class discussions. Originally framed as a parable of transformation and growth, the story unexpectedly provided an avenue to explore topics such as gender, transgenderism, and transsexuality. Sporadic instances arose in the discussion in which students subverted traditional binary gender constructs. These fleeting moments of disorientation underscored dialogic pedagogy's capacity to challenge gender norms. However, students and teachers treated transgenderism as taboo, and the topic's explicit consideration generated anxiety, with the teachers and some of the students trying to silence non-heteronormative voices. Ultimately, teachers reinforced interpretations that allowed the gender order to be restored and seemed relieved when they were able to move on from the gender trouble episode. The study highlights the potential of dialogic pedagogy to challenge the heterosexual matrix and promote gender equity. However, it also demonstrates the importance of paying greater attention to gender issues in the development of dialogic pedagogy.
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79. Honoring Multiple Identities Using Multicultural Literature
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Ezell, Sonja and Daly, Annie
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Multicultural texts are essential classroom tools because they create opportunities for all students to feel visible, included, and valued. In this summary paper, the authors begin with an overview of why multicultural literature and multiple identities have a place inside elementary and secondary classrooms. The authors then describe three literacy practices embedded with hands-on teaching activities to support the use of multicultural literature in the classroom. The authors argue that given the current sociopolitical realities of injustice, discrimination, and violence, multicultural literature is an essential classroom tool to honor children and youth's humanity and safeguard their well-being.
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80. Changing the Finish Line: Implications of New Graduation Requirements in the School District of Philadelphia
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Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC), Vannata, Sean, Shaw-Amoah, Anna, Pileggi, Molly, Turner, Alyn, Schlesinger, Molly, Wills, Theodore, and Reyes, Roland
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Beginning with the class of 2023, Pennsylvania high school students will need to demonstrate career or postsecondary preparedness to meet statewide graduation requirements and receive a high school diploma. The new graduation requirements were enacted in 2018 by Pennsylvania's Act 158. They are intended to codify high standards for all students and improve student achievement across Pennsylvania, while also taking into account student strengths, interests, and career goals. As profiled in PERC's recent related brief, Act 158 outlines five pathways to demonstrating career or postsecondary preparedness, two of which--the Keystone pathways-- require demonstrating proficiency on Pennsylvania's end-of-course subject exams for Literature, Algebra, and Biology. The remaining three pathways to graduation--the alternative pathways--require that a student (1) either earn a "Proficient" Keystone exam score or acceptable course grades in each Keystone subject area; and (2) demonstrate college or career readiness through one or multiple alternative metrics, such as through an industry-based competency certification, successful completion of a service-learning project, or an internship or cooperative education program, among other metrics. This report examines historical performance on Keystone exams to explore the potential impact of the policy on students in the School District of Philadelphia's high schools. While data to understand the impact on graduation outcomes through each of the five pathways are not yet available, existing data on Keystone proficiency can provide insights into the Keystone proficiency and composite pathways. Thus, in this report, pre-pandemic administrative data for students in the classes of 2018 and 2019 who took Keystone exams while enrolled in District middle or high schools was used to see how many and which students would have met or almost met Keystone-associated requirements for graduation as defined by Act 158, had the policy been in effect at that time. [For the related brief, "Changing Requirements in Pennsylvania for High School Graduation. A Policy Brief on Pennsylvania Act 158," see ED626029.]
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81. Metaphorical Perceptions of High School Students about the Literature Course
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Savaskan, Vafa
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We aimed to determine high school student perceptions about the literature course based on metaphors. We conducted the study with the phenomenology model, a qualitative research method. The study group included 137 students (57 female and 80 male students) attending ninth to twelfth grades at four public high schools in Sinop province in Turkey. Fourty-six students were 9th graders, 40 were 10th graders, 32 were 11th graders, and 19 were 12th graders. The study data were collected with the phrase "Literature course…. Is like…, because,…" completed by the participants. Descriptive analysis was conducted on the study data. Data analysis included elimination and selection, naming, category development, validity and reliability phases. The study findings demonstrated that 137 high school students came up with 126 metaphors. Fifty-four metaphors were produced by female students and 72 by male students. These metaphors included life (f12), poetry (f4), death (f2), art (f3), book (f7), dictionary (f4), sun (f3). Twenty-four metaphors were produced by the 9th graders, 30 by the 10th graders, 27 by the 11th graders, and 15 by the 12th graders. In conclusion, although certain metaphors were negative, the majority of the metaphors were positive.
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82. Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship in Language and Literature Programs
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Modern Language Association of America
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The guidelines offer suggestions for departments, institutions, and faculty members in languages and literatures for valuing and assessing research in the public humanities. Because much public humanities scholarship involves engagement with communities, particularly bilingual and multilingual communities, this document places particular emphasis on the ethical questions that arise in community-engaged scholarly work. The guidelines also acknowledge genres of public humanities work that align more closely with traditional forms of humanities scholarship: research published in nonacademic venues, such as periodicals and blogs, or op-eds, lectures, and podcasts disseminated to wider audiences beyond the academy in English and other languages. Broadly, the guidance provided here is meant to engage with the fundamental questions that drive a peer review process in cases where traditional peer review may not currently be feasible and to suggest alternative modes of peer review where possible. [These guidelines were created by the Modern Language Association (MLA) Ad Hoc Committee on Valuing the Public Humanities.]
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83. Changing Requirements in Pennsylvania for High School Graduation. A Policy Brief on Pennsylvania Act 158
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Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC)
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Beginning with the class of 2023, graduating Pennsylvania high school students will need to demonstrate career or postsecondary preparedness in addition to meeting existing statewide graduation requirements. Act 158 of 2018 outlines five pathways to meeting this requirement, including two that rely exclusively on Keystone Exam performance and three pathways that allow for alternative demonstration of college or career readiness. This significant policy shift likely has implications for all Pennsylvania school districts, including the School District of Philadelphia (SDP). Over the next three years, the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium will be conducting research focused on this policy to understand its implications for SDP. The Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC) is a research partnership between SDP's Office of Research and Evaluation and Research for Action, funded by the William Penn Foundation. In this policy brief, PERC: (1) outlines Act 158 and the new graduation requirements; (2) describes the evolution of the policy; (3) summarizes the previous research conducted on high-stakes graduation requirements in PA; and (4) highlights equity concerns that previous research has raised.
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84. Context and Pedagogy as Signpoints to Authentic Learning Paths
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Meriläinen, Merja and Piispanen, Maarika
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In the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Compulsory Education (2014), the conception of language is based on the communal and functional linguistics model of language. From the perspectives of teaching and learning, this requires that learning contexts and pedagogies enable learning in such learning environments, roles, and processes where the pupil can think and act authentically, according to his or her age (National Core Curriculum 2014). Thus, in this article we examine the integration of subject teaching with topic teaching in the frameworks of sociocultural learning, functional linguistics, and authentic learning, in the contextual-pedagogical learning landscape, where the individuality of learners as well as timely learning support (scaffolding) in the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky 1978) enable the learning of content as part of interdisciplinary learning. The subject Finnish language and literature is defined as a interdisciplinary, practical, theoretical, and cultural subject (National Core Curriculum 2014) that requires cooperation with other subjects. This article will present a interdisciplinary approach to learning, where the thematic context created for learning gives meaning to the subject related content that must be learned, and where the ability to acquire the core content of the subject becomes a prerequisite for the processing of the theme or topic presented through the thematic context.
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85. Technology and Identity Enactment among Muslim Immigrant Families
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Michael K. Thomas and Rohany Nayan
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Grounded in sociocultural theory and informed by Bakhtinian's notions of dialogism, utterance, heteroglossia, and addressivity, this paper presents findings from a collective case study of the identity enactments and negotiations by way of their literacy practices of three children in the three families of Muslim immigrants (i.e., Muslim-Moroccan, Muslim- Somali, and Muslim-Indonesian) living in an American Midwestern town. Three types of data were collected: observations, spoken data, and artifacts. Data were analyzed at two tiers, first as individual cases and then as part of a cross-case analysis. This study revealed that there are co-occurring and mutually affirming processes that took place among the study participants identified as "eMersion," "acquiring Qur'anic literacy," "forging nostalgic alignments," and "bilateral nostalgia." This paper specifically highlights the complex process of literacy practices called "Acquiring Qur'anic Literacy" and "eMersion" and identity enactments called "Forging Nostalgic Alignment," and their relationships to a phenomenon called "bi-lateral nostalgia" among these three Muslim immigrant families.
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86. The Perceptions of Iraqi EFL Preparatory School Teachers about Literature Spots in Iraqi English Textbooks
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Asmaa Nader Sharhan and Kamran Janfeshan
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Integrating literature in the English language syllabus has been discussed for a long time. The purpose of the current study explores the Iraqi English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' perception regarding teaching literature in English textbooks in Iraq as an EFL context. To do so, 74 Iraqi EFL teachers were selected using a convenient sampling method. They were both males and females and they had different years of teaching experience ranging from 2 to 29 years old at the preparatory level at Iraqi high schools. A semi-structured interview and a questionnaire were the instruments of the study. The results demonstrated that Iraqi teachers believed that the literature spots sections of textbooks increase the linguistic development of learners through class discussion and involvement, develop cultural awareness and appreciation of cultural differences, promote personal involvement, and finally boost the individual growth of learners. Furthermore, the results reflected the positive perceptions of Iraqi language teachers toward the integration of literature in textbooks. Thus, the results of interviews indicated that a majority of Iraqi EFL teachers believed that the literature spots have been poorly compiled and both the quality and quantity of literature contents of these books are under the questions. Most teachers agreed that the literary parts needed fundamental revision if they want to achieve predetermined objectives. The findings have important teaching implications for Iraqi EFL teachers, syllabi, and curriculum designers.
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87. The Caliphate in Learning Resources of Indonesian Islamic Boarding School: A View of Kyai and Santri Pesantren Lirboyo Kediri
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Rustam Ibrahim, Andi Arif Rifa'i, Supriyanto, Muhammad Zaenuri, Moh. Ashif Fuadi, and Mujiburrohman
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This study aims to analyze the learning resources of Islamic boarding schools written by kyai and santri (teacher and student of Islamic boarding school in Indonesia). This study uses a qualitative approach with a literature study design. The literature sources come from (limited by) seven books written by Kai and Santri at the Lirboyo Islamic Boarding School Kediri Indonesia that discuss the caliphate in the democratic era. The findings of this study indicate that Islamic boarding school learning resources contain materials or teachings related to the chalipate and nasionalism, including: (a) the concept of the caliphate as in the early days of Islam is no longer an ideal model of government today. Therefore, the concept of a democratic state is one of the ideal models in a pluralistic society; (b) The concept of choosing a leader based on the concept of the caliphate is no longer suitable for today. The election of leaders through a democratic model that hands over the election of state leaders (government) to the people is one of the ideal models; and (c) Obedience to the leader (government) elected by the people is an obligation for every citizen. Therefore, leaders who are not in accordance with Islamic law do not have to be fought or rebelled against but rather faced democratically, legally, constitutionally in accordance with applicable laws and regulations for the sake of the integrity of the nation and to avoid fraternal conflict and division.
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88. The Role of Teaching Subject in Teachers' Online Identity Construction: An Interpretative Phenomenological Approach
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Mostafa Nazari and Haniye Seyri
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Framed in an interpretative phenomenological approach, this study explored the role of teaching subject (i.e. discipline) in Iranian teachers' online identity construction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected from teachers of hard and soft sciences through semi-structured interviews, reported practices and online interactions. Data analyses showed that the teachers' online identities involved similarities and differences across their agency, emotion and reflexivity in relation to teaching subject. The authors found that teaching subject influences the relational nature of teachers' identity construction, yet it mediates more profoundly the teachers' agency and practices in online teaching. Moreover, the teachers' emotion and reflexivity were largely constructed in light of their personalised and collegial understandings relevant to sociocultural idiosyncrasies of online education. The findings provide novel implications for characterising teachers' online identities, which help teacher educators approach online teacher education in light of situated understandings that account for teacher identities in greater depth.
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89. The Uses of Affect in Literature Education: Trajectories of Nationalism and Solidarity in Postcolonial Cyprus
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Bahriye Kemal and Michalinos Zembylas
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This article demonstrates how the use of affect in literature education invokes trajectories of nationalism and/or solidarity using the case of postcolonial Cyprus as example. For this, we analyse secondary school literature curricula and textbooks in both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot educational systems. We do so by making use of affect theory -- mainly 'affective nationalism' and 'affective solidarity' -- met with Henri Lefebvre's 'rhythms' and 'truth of space,' and Raymond Williams' dominant, emergence, residual positions. Our focus questions are: What social, cultural, political meanings about the ethnic self and 'Other' are produced by literature curricula and textbooks? How can affect be used to regulate students and meanings in literature education, and what kind of 'alternative' affective meanings emerge? Our analysis shows that literature can be used in educational settings to evoke simultaneously conflicting affective ideologies and feelings. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed for literature education in postcolonial settings.
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90. Agonism in a Classroom Discussion on Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'
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Emma N. Tysklind, Linn Areskoug, and Eva Hultin
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In many parts of the world, researchers and policymakers alike report possible threats to democracy and its institutions. Accounts in the media of hatred and threats aimed at people taking part in public discourse, and of a polarized political debate, raise general questions about the current state and future of democratic dialogue and processes. Solutions are sought, by both research and policy, in the educational context. Some researchers have turned to the agonistic theory proposed by Chantal Mouffe, highlighting the democratic role of conflict and dissent. Empirical research on agonism in education is, however, scarce. In this article, we explore agonistic democratic theory in educational practice, more precisely in a conversation about a literary classic in an upper-secondary Swedish L1 classroom. Based on the analysis of data generated through a teacher-researcher collaboration, we propose six didactic conditions that are fruitful for what we call agonistic literary discussions. Contributing to the debate on how education could meet a possible threat to democracy, we argue that an agonistic approach is a productive path. This approach views democracy as an ongoing process, and it views the classroom as a place where the meaning of democracy can be negotiated.
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91. Reading in the Classroom and Beyond: Learning from Early Career English Teachers
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Brenton Doecke
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This essay emerges out of conversations with early career English teachers about their experiences of teaching literature. During those conversations, they reflected on their own literary socialisation, including the reading they did at home and at school, as well as their tertiary education. They then considered what they had learnt as teachers from the way their students engage with literary texts in classroom settings. Their insights into the nature of a literary education provide a counterpoint to the ideological work of standards-based reforms, even though their professional practice has been unavoidably shaped by those reforms. They open up dimensions of a literary education that contemporary curriculum and policy discourses fail to recognise. Above all, they highlight the importance of affirming the primacy of a reader's personal response to a text as a condition for any meaningful conversation to take place in classrooms.
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92. What Can Students Learn from Fictional Literature? Quite a Bit, Scholars Say
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Robin J. Kempf and Reeti Sharma
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Using fictional literature in public administration classrooms has been advocated by public administration educators since the middle of the past century. Stories are asserted to be a legitimate tool to understand social systems, management models, and ethical dilemmas. It is argued that fictional literature influences how students perceive the complicated contexts within which public management occurs. Yet with one exception, public administration scholars have not tested what knowledge students gain from engaging with fictional literature. A systematic literature review is undertaken to learn what scholars from other disciplines have learned about knowledge gained from using fictional literature as a pedagogical tool. The review shows that fictional literature can lead to gains in factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. From the identified articles, lessons about how educators can effectively incorporate fictional literature as part of public administration coursework are drawn.
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93. Fostering an Ideology of Inclusivity: Shared Critical Dialogue and Self-Reflexivity in the English Classroom
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Alexandra C. Parsons
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Despite a reported sociocultural shift in the public perception of rights affecting LGBTQ+ individuals and some changes in governmental policies and laws, there has not yet been a resulting shift in the overall K-12 pedagogical paradigm. Within the classroom, LGBTQ+ individuals and students growing up in LGBTQ+ households are frequently and actively silenced and, therefore, marginalised and stigmatised while LGBTQ+ topics and curricula are intentionally avoided. LGBTQ+ students, students raised in LGBTQ+ families, and LGBTQ+ educators may struggle to feel included within the heteronormative school environment. This lack of LGBTQ+ representation highlights potentially damaging implications for the microsystem of students, parents, and educators. To meet the needs of its LGBTQ+ population, schools must re-evaluate their current inclusivity practices and examine possible interventions to increase inclusion. Through a synthesis and discussion of the research literature rooted in Freire's (2017) critical dialogue, the author examines possible solutions to increase perceptions of inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community from within the English classroom.
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94. The Feeling of Thinking: Social Annotation with Emojis
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Jeffrey Clapp and Bidisha Banerjee
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We extend research on social annotation in education by implementing a new annotation technique in the literature classroom. Over the course of one year, we invited students to socially annotate literary texts using emojis that reflected their affective responses to those texts. This approach was inspired by new functions of social annotation systems, discussions of affective pedagogy, and developments in literary theory. We used a coding scheme linked to the literary theory of Rita Felski to analyse students' annotations and theorise our results. Via surveys and interviews, we inquired into students' experiences of this annotation strategy. Students evaluated the experience positively, and our analysis suggests that this practice made contributions to their learning which align with Felski's account of literary "attachment". We conclude that annotating literature with emojis provides a concrete means of implementing affective pedagogy in literature education.
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95. Exercising the Imagination: Ecofeminist Science Fictions as Object-Oriented Thought Experiments in Education
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Noel Gough
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This essay offers a rationale for deploying ecofeminist science fiction stories as object-oriented thought experiments in science and environmental education, with particular reference to developments in genetics and evolutionary biology, and their implications for human (and more-than-human) reproduction and kinship in the period following the determination of the double helical structure of DNA by scientists affiliated with Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory in 1953, and the impact of subsequent gene-centric discourses on the biological sciences and the wider culture. The utility and defensibility of this approach is exemplified by reference to two science fiction novels by the late Naomi Mitchison that foreground and anticipate implications of genetic sciences for matters of concern to ecofeminists, including reproductive rights and responsibilities, population control, human relations with the more-than-human, and problematizing gendered (and other) binaries in everyday speech and popular culture.
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96. Form, Criticality, and Humanity: Topic Modeling the Field of Literary Studies for English Education
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Scott Storm and Emily C. Rainey
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Purpose: Research on disciplinary literacy in English has struggled with how to represent large-scale disciplinary communities and consider issues of justice and power. The purpose of this study is to offer insights into the disciplinary practice of a community of literary scholars. Design/methodology/approach: Using statistical topic modeling augmented with complementary qualitative analysis and interpretive rhetorical analysis, the authors describe patterns in a corpus of 4,039 articles published in the year 2018 and drawn from 215 peer-reviewed literary journals, a corpus comprising 15.5 million words. Findings: Analysis suggests that contemporary literary scholars collectively build knowledge that considers diverse matters of form, including literary and linguistic forms, literary works and other representational forms; criticality, including critical theories and critical concepts; and humanity, including humanistic themes, human institutions and people/places. Originality/value: This manuscript offers detail about the nature of contemporary literary scholarship as evident through linguistic patterns in and across published works.
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97. Developing More-than-Human Sustain-Abilities in the Ecocritical Classroom
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Ignasi Ribó
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This article discusses and elaborates on the insights gained from the teaching of a course in "Environment, Literature and Culture" at a university in the north of Thailand. The course was designed as an invitation to English major students to develop sustain-abilities (vulner-abilities, attend-abilities, and response-abilities). In an effort to overcome the anthropocentrism of traditional humanistic ecocritical pedagogies, both the course and this case study have been framed by posthumanist ontology and educational theory. From this standpoint, curriculum and pedagogy constitute a relational, open-ended, more-than-human entanglement of agencies, practices, discourses, matters, and encounters assembled in the process of teaching and learning. The dialogical and situated invitations of this course contributed to assemble a literacy situation that seemed to foster in students an embodied, affective, experienced, relational sense of becoming-together with nonhuman others. While it is unclear whether the participation in the course will continue to motivate their collective and individual actions beyond this literacy situation, the encounters and relations between these students and the many nonhumans assembled in the ecocritical classroom constitute by themselves bewildering learning experiences.
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98. 'Such a Space to Cross': Lessons Learned(?) from Teaching during a Pandemic
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Natalie Bellis
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The COVID-19 Pandemic dramatically impacted the classroom experiences of teachers and students across the globe. This reflexive autobiographical article critically examines the ramifications of this extraordinary event on the experiences of teaching and learning for the teacher-writer and her secondary English and literature students. Through a process of narrative inquiry , the text weaves together stories of praxis during and after the extended lockdowns experienced in Victoria, Australia, with exploration of spatial and geographical metaphors through which the teacher seeks to derive meaning from her experiences of teaching while physically distanced from her students and colleagues. These reflections are theorised using Doreen Massey's conceptualisation of space as both social and political and Michel de Certeau's metaphor of the city map in order to illuminate the impacts of the altered learning landscape on the teacher's professional identity during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this way, the essay also offers a critical reflection on the consequences of reification in school communities that are inevitably shaped by standards-based reforms and institutional power.
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99. Dungeons and Dragons in the Literature Classroom
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Rich Paul Cooper, Jonan Phillip Donaldson, Mahjabin Chowdhury, and Jonathan M. Mitchell
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"The Ballad of Proxima-B" is an educational RPG that promotes learning and collaboration. Students contribute to world-building and game mechanics, creating fictional worlds and characters, including a dystopian Earth, the planet Proxima-B, and alien races. The game incorporates constructivist, constructionist, and Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) principles. The hands-on and collaborative nature facilitates learning, reflection, and a strong classroom community. During gameplay, characters form alliances, encouraging students to reflect on their interactions. Design challenges include workload balance and addressing student anxiety. Game elements emphasize critical thinking and self-reflection, foster collaboration and community, and encourage exploring identity through serious play.
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100. Teaching College Piano Literature Courses: Toward a New Approach
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Jackie Kai Zhi Yong
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Piano literature (or keyboard repertory studies) is commonly included in piano performance and some piano pedagogy degrees in the United States. This single or sequential course is required by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) at both undergraduate and graduate levels. While most universities include such courses in their degree requirements, it might be argued that not all instructors are well-equipped to teach piano literature courses. An oft-cited maxim in higher education is that "faculty teach the way they were taught" because they usually receive little formal training in teaching before entering the classroom. There are almost no pedagogical resources or materials that directly address issues regarding teaching piano literature courses to prepare young piano faculty and facilitate their teaching of such courses. While the fields of piano pedagogy, music theory, music history, and musicology have many up-to-date resources available for reference, there is minimal scholarly discussion of teaching piano literature courses in educational journals or at conferences. This treatise aims to serve as a reference for both young and experienced college professors to think about how piano literature classes for 21st-century pianists can and should be taught. It compiles the wisdom and experience of established textbook authors and course instructors at prominent music institutions in the United States. Using a qualitative inquiry approach, this document will discuss essential and neglected topics surrounding teaching a piano literature course. Discussions include teaching methodologies and strategies for Generation Z and Generation Alpha in the Artificial Intelligence world, selecting course materials that include overlooked composers without compromising canonic composers, and navigating the practicality of assignments in a piano literature course. This investigation seeks to initiate discussion on these important topics and contribute to the pedagogy of piano literature in higher education. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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