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Multimodal literacy in academic environments: PowerPoint as a motivational genre
(2018)
his paper explores PowerPoint (PPT) as a leading genre in academic discourse, focussing on the implementation of student motivation boosting strategies. ICT nowadays plays an increasingly important role in pedagogy, by ...
Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction to Real World Applications
(2017)
Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction to Real World Applications by Alessandro G. Benati and Tanja Angelovska (2016) is without doubt a help for undergraduate students and trainee teachers who need to ...
Teaching apps for the learning of language through sports: Technology and sports in the English and Spanish as a L2/FL classroom
(2017)
This paper presents a selection of teaching apps for the teaching and learning of both English and Spanish through sports. In the frame of a funded research project on Applied Linguistics to the teaching of modern languages ...
A Practical Guide to Integrating Technology into Task-Based Language Teaching
(2017)
Over and above the fact that the latest educational technologies seem more exciting and more interesting than their earlier counterparts, because the implementation, use, and assessment of the originals was not guided by ...
Up2B2: Playing English grammar games at the B2 level
(2017)
The study presented herein is framed within the Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) approach and presents the results from the use of an original mobile app, developed by the research team, on the part of 73 students. ...
PowerPoint Presentations in the classroom: Re-evaluating the genre
(2018)
Since the late 1990s, Microsoft PowerPoint has become the expected presentation genre. However, several studies have demonstrated its many faults, such as the pre-formatted construction of discourse leading to the abuse ...
Medical English teaching and beyond: A multimodal and integrated approach
(2017)
The aim of this paper is to show how Medical English teaching materials may be improved by introducing multimodal tasks encouraging a holistic approach to communication. Medical English for Specific Purposes textbooks and ...
Assessing politeness of requestive speech acts produced by Japanese learners of English in a spoken corpus
(2017)
This study aims to investigate whether it is possible to assess learners’ sociopragmatic competence in learner spoken data by examining requests produced by Japanese learners of English. Various pragmalinguistic features ...
Learners’ identifies at stake: Digital identity texts in the ELF classroom
(2017)
This paper focuses on the study of identity in digital identity texts produced by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners within a specific subject of the Teacher in Primary Education (English) degree ...
From the Editors: CLIL at university: research and developments
(2013)
In recent times, the relevance of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) at most educational levels, especially in the university world, has experienced an exponential increase, as recent publications show (Doiz ...