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Teaching beyond verifying sources and “fake news”: Critical media education to challenge media injustices

Jeremy Stoddard; Jonathan Tunstall; Leila Walker; Emily Wight · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Current popular media literacy programs overemphasize the verifiability, reliability, and expertise of sources over the analysis of how marginalized groups are represented. This analysis privileges traditional news sources – and a hierarchy of “objective” news. These same institutions have been historically responsible for producing and reinforcing stereotyp…

Teaching Adolescents to Communicate (Better) Online: Best Practices from a Middle School Classroom

Michelle Ciccone · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Digital conversation spaces have the potential to generate powerful collective intelligence, but only when users are thoughtful, reflective, and have experience interacting with diverse ideas. To be able to engage in online conversational spaces in this way, though, is not inherent or natural: it must be practiced. This article will argue that it is essentia…

Teaching Social Justice: Intergenerational Service-Learning in Digital Media Course

Margaret O. Finucane; Linda M. Seiter; Nathan C. Gehlert · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Digital media play an increasingly dominant role in reinforcing and challenging power inequality in social and institutional relationships. This paper describes how a service-learning component engaged students in community-based interactions that not only deepened their understanding of course content but also increased their commitment to diversity, commun…

Teaching Media Literacy in Less Than an Hour

Faith Rogow · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Teaching English emphasis from reading to speaking

Abdillah, Abdillah · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

Transforming Teaching in Higher Education

Anonim

This book brings together scholarly contributions that explore the evolving nature of Postgraduate Diplomas in Higher Education offered across varied higher education contexts. Through fourteen chapters, the book provides rich insights into the complexities of academic staff development and the professional learning of university educators. The collection ad…

Transformative journey of preservice English teachers towards a sustainable society

Esat Kuzu; Feryal Çubukçu · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Although the teaching of English can significantly contribute to the teaching of environmental topics, the integration of ecological literacy into language teaching is not supported by English teachers because they feel uneducated in this field. In the current study, we aimed to explore the experiences of preservice English language teachers as they learn to…

ChatGPT as a Motivational Tool in ELT: A Comparative Analysis of Teacher and Student Perceptions

Arezoo Ashoori Tootkaboni; Mojtaba Maghsoudi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is reshaping pedagogical approaches, offering new avenues for personalized learning. This study investigates the motivational role of ChatGPT in English Language Teaching (ELT) by comparing perceptions of 33 instructors and 215 secondary school students in Iran. A quantitative, descriptive-comparat…

Experience Matters: Iranian EFL Teachers' Beliefs on Corrective Feedback

Hamid Reza Dowlatabadi; Hamed Badpa · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Corrective feedback (CF) is widely recognized as vital in second language acquisition, yet the evolution of teachers' beliefs about CF across experience levels remains insufficiently explored in the Iranian EFL context. This explanatory mixed?methods study examined whether significant differences exist between novice and experienced teachers' beliefs regardi…

Classroom Management as Situated Relational Practice: EFL High School Teachers’ Cognitions and Experiences

Ebrahim Ebrahimi; Nahid Zarei; Davud Kuhi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Classroom management remains a central yet conceptually multifaceted dimension of effective teaching, particularly in high school EFL contexts characterized by linguistic, behavioral, and institutional complexity. While prior research has extensively examined classroom management strategies, comparatively limited attention has been given to how teachers them…

Promoting News Literacy with epistemological beliefs, IFLA checklist and AI: Insights from a teacher training program in Italy

Flavio Manganello · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study examines the integration of epistemological beliefs, the IFLA checklist for evaluating news credibility, and the News Verifier, an AI tool powered by GPT-4, within a teacher training program aimed at enhancing news literacy. It explores the relationship between educators’ epistemological profiles and their ability to classify news using the IFLA c…

The relationship between the 21st-century skills and computational thinking skills of prospective mathematics and science teachers

Deniz Kaya; Ayten Öykü Ya?ar; ?brahim Çetin; Tamer Kutluca · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study aimed to determine the strength of the relationship between 21st-century skills and the computational thinking skill levels of prospective teachers, as well as the affect of 21st-century skills on computational thinking. This study adopted a correlational design as part of a quantitative methodology. The study sample consists of 300 prospective te…

Self-awareness and self-regulatory learning as mediators between ChatGPT usage and pre-service mathematics teacher's self-efficacy

Bright Asare; Francis Ohene Boateng · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study aimed to examine the effect of ChatGPT usage on pre-service mathematics teachers ’self-efficacy in mathematics learning. The study further examined the mediating role of self-awareness and self-regulatory learning on the nexus between ChatGPT Usage and pre-service mathematics teachers’ self-efficacy. The study adopted a survey approach using a str…

Dialogic teaching in out of school environments through technology and thought experiment

Fatma Kübra Uyar; Orhan Karamustafao?lu · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study addresses a notable gap in the literature by exploring the integration of innovative strategies—specifically Web 2.0-based dialogic teaching—into out-of-school learning environments. The research investigated 7th-grade students’ awareness of Web 2.0 tools, their performance on a thought experiment (the Sugar Cube), their cognitive engagement, and …

Epistemological beliefs in mathematics teacher educators: An exploratory study in Chile

Mirko Aguilar-Valdés; Helena Montenegro · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In Chile, mathematics results are insufficient at the school level. To address this problem, the need to rethink teaching has been raised. Evidence indicates that epistemological beliefs are at the basis of pedagogical decisions, and their study has been developed mainly in primary and secondary school teachers. However, scientific evidence is scarce regardi…

Predicting Critical Thinking Tendencies of University EFL teachers through Problem-solving Skills: differences in gender and teaching experience

Nasim Mehrabian; Hadi Salehi; Omid Tabatabaei; Hossein Vahid-Dastjerdi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Critical thinking is one of the main functions of education and it is considered as learners’ use of prior knowledge to make judgments and solve problems. This study aimed, firstly, to examine the relationship between university EFL teachers’ critical thinking tendencies and their problem-solving skills, and secondly, to explore the prediction of university …

Perceptions of EFL Teacher Educators, Pre-service Teachers, and In-service Teachers about Employing Corpus-based Language Pedagogy (CBLP) Knowledge in their Work

Zahra Beheshti Sefat; Behzad Ghonsooly; Zargham Ghapanchi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

A thorough literature review revealed that employing a corpus-based approach in language pedagogy remains largely unknown to most foreign language teachers in the Iranian context. Relying on a sequential exploratory mixed-methods study, the present researchers developed and validated an interview guide and conducted interviews with 20 Teaching English as a F…

(Re)Construction of Iranian EFL Teachers' Professional Identity through Action Research and Teacher Support Groups

Shabnam Ghasemi; Hassan Soodmand Afshar · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This research investigates how 185 Iranian EFL teachers re-shaped their professional identity by taking part in professional development (PD) models: Action research (AR) and Teacher Support Groups (TSGs). We invited the participants from public high schools and gathered the Quantitative data using the English Language Teacher Professional Identity Inventory…

Syllabus Design Knowledge (SDK) Among Iranian EFL Teachers: A Comparative Study of Novice and Experienced Teachers in Public High Schools and Private Language Institutes

Mehdi Vaez-Dalili; Farinaz Rahnamaei; Bahram Hadian · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This quantitative, causal-comparative study investigated differences in Syllabus Design Knowledge (SDK) between novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers in public high schools and private language institutes. A sample of 120 EFL teachers, stratified into four equal groups (novice/experienced x public/private), completed a validated Syllabus Design Knowled…

The Impact of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Meta-Pragmatic Awareness on Their Classroom Practices and Teaching Strategy Development

Behnood Samani; Mehrdad Amiri; Naser Ghafouri · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Instructing interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) is essential for effective second language communication. The present study set out to investigate the impact of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ meta-pragmatic awareness on their classroom practices and developing strategies in teaching pragmatics. To do so, a qualitative study was designed in …