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3 Kinds of Nouns: Counting is Not Always the Issue
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Adjective Clauses: Do They Define or Tell Us More Information?
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Adverb Clauses: Don’t Use Future Tense
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Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Naomi Baron’s (2008) Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, provides an overview of trends in digital communication and the impact these trends and practices have for personal interconnectivity, literacy, ... -
Analyzing Representations of Individuals with Disabilities in Picture Books
(Wiley, 2021-04-27)This article provides a critical literacy approach to reading picture books that represent individuals with disabilities. It details close reading with a critical literacy stance as a scaffolded method for teachers to ... -
Assessing language learning in virtual exchange: suggestions from the field of language assessment
(University of Groningen Press, 2021-04-23)This goal of this paper is to enhance VE practitioners’ language assessment literacy. To do so, it begins with an overview of assessment practices commonly used in VE for evaluating the complex and multifaceted nature of ... -
Assessing language learning in virtual exchange: suggestions from the field of language assessment
(University of Groningen Press, 2021-04-23)The goal of this paper is to enhance Virtual Exchange (VE) practitioners’ language assessment literacy. To do so, it begins with an overview of assessment practices commonly used in VE for ... -
Associations Between Teacher-Reported School Climate and Depressive Symptoms in Australian Adolescents: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study
(Springer Nature, 2016-04-29)Adolescent depression is serious and common. As adolescents spend approximately 15,000 h in school, this setting is a logical place to seek etiological factors. Research suggests there are negative associations between ... -
Audiographics used in distance learning
(Australian Council for Computers in Education, 1994-09)This paper presents an introduction to audiographics technology, its advantages and disadvantages and a short summary of responses to an ongoing, informal inquiry into the present uses of audiographics. -
Balancing Literacies: UDL/CSP-Infused Elementary Reading Instruction
(IGI Global, 2021)This chapter outlines an approach to whole learner education in an elementary school literacy classroom by building upon the work of scholars in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy ... -
Balancing Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Peer-to-Peer Approaches to Sustaining Distance Training
(Anadolu University, 2006-07)Many distance training case studies identify distance training leadership as bottom-up, whereas much of the literature suggests a need for strategic, top-down approaches. With change management as an overarching framework, ... -
Barriers To Communication In Distance Education
(Anadolu University, 2013-01)To a large extent education can be thought of as a communication process among the participants. This article focuses on distance education, which has both the general communication processes that in-person education venues ... -
Barriers to distance education as perceived by managers and administrators: Results of a survey
(2000-01)It is becoming increasingly unusual to pick up a professional training or education journal without seeing articles concerning alternatives to in-person teaching and learning. Distance education is not new, but the new ... -
Barriers to Distance Education: A Factor-Analytic Study
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-09-24)This article reports on a large‐scale (n = 2,504), exploratory factor analysis that determined the underlying constructs that comprise barriers to distance education. The ten factors found were (1) administrative structure, ... -
Barriers to Distance Education: Perceptions of K-12 Educators
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2003-01)Instructional-use computers are continuing to migrate into the classrooms, with public schools reporting over half the installed base now located in classrooms. Still, education struggles with the rapid expansion of ... -
Barriers to Online Teaching in Elementary, Secondary, and Teacher Education
(1999)A review of the literature regarding the barriers to the use of educational technology in primary and secondary education was done. An emphasis was placed on the diffusion of computers in the schools, since the focus of ... -
Barriers To Online Teaching In Post-Secondary Institutions: Can Policy Changes Fix It?
(University of West Georgia, 1998-06)Recent technological advances have increased the overall amount of information available and improved accessibility to that information, while at the same time the costs of publishing information have decreased. These ... -
(Be)coming Critical Teacher Educators: Collaborative Self-Study Across Contexts
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-28)This collaborative self-study looks at how eight white literacy teacher educators worked together to re-center critical literacy and teaching for equity in methods courses. We used self-study methodology to interrogate not ... -
Before Tenses: They are not Perfect
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Beneficial Parenting According to the “Parenting Pentagon Model”: A Cross-Cultural Study During a Pandemic
(Springer, 2022-07-08)The COVID-19 pandemic introduced a substantial change in the routines of families worldwide. The aim of this chapter is to portray universal and culturally specific characteristics of parenthood during a time of crisis. ...