Teaching Multiliteracies to Chinese Students: Challenges and Insights

Multiliteracies, E-literature and English Teaching

Task-based Language Teaching in L2 English Writing Classrooms: Insights from Chinese Senior Secondary Schools

There is little research on the task-based teaching approach in senior secondary L2 English writing classrooms. This study carried out an exploratory sequential mixed methods study to explore the suitability and adaptations of task-based language teaching in the domain of secondary schools in small cities. First, the researcher surveyed six EFL senior secondary teachers of different teaching ex...

Teaching Logic to Information Systems Students: Challenges and Opportunities

In contrast to Computer Science, where the fundamental role of Logic is widely recognized, it plays a practically non-existent role in Information Systems curricula. In this paper we argue that instead of Logic’s exclusion from the IS curriculum, a significant adaptation of the contents, as well as teaching methodologies, is required for an alignment with the needs of IS practitioners. We prese...

Teaching Programming Students how to Model: Challenges & Opportunities

Computer Science students who have one or more years of basic programming experience and little or no exposure to abstractions above the code level, often struggle to grasp modeling concepts and practices in more advanced software development courses. In this talk I discuss some of the factors that contribute to this situation and propose a learning process in which the abstraction gap between ...

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...