Meanings Made in Students’ Multimodal Digital Stories: Resources, Popular Culture, and Values

Easing Students into Academia: popular culture in the CBI curriculum

One idea that sticks in my mind from my undergraduate course in science fiction is that in order to write SF, you need strange people, strange things or strange places; however, if you have strange people doing strange things in strange places, the result is a confused reader. The position of first-year university students is analogous: too often they are having to write in new and challenging ...

Telling Tales: Models, Stories and Meanings

ion versus idealisation Applying both the abstraction (physical modelling) and idealisation (system identification) processes to the same situation can often be very revealing. For example, ignoring friction, inertia and compressibility, and using physical reasoning, leads to an integrator model of an actuator. Including inertia and viscous friction, and applying Newton’s Laws, leads to a model...

Multimodal Resources in Students’ Explanations in Clil Interaction

In recent years, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has received much attention in linguistics and pedagogy. Based on a single case analysis, it will be shown how a detailed sequential analysis of video-recordings of naturally occurring classroom interaction enables us to understand how an explanation can be accomplished collaboratively by participants in a specific language-learni...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Models and meanings: Therapist effects and the stories we tell

Two studies, same data set, opposite conclusions. Therapist effects are either vital or virtually nonexistent. Previous research either supports the importance of therapist effects or provides little or no evidence that these effects exist. What kind of science is this? The question the articles in this special section address is an important one for psychotherapy research: Is there major varia...