USING FOLKTALES IN LITERATURE CLASSROOM FOR LOW LEVEL STUDENTS

adopting literature in the EFL classroom

Using Lean in the Flipped Classroom for At Risk Students

Schools are working to improve achievement through the examination of instructional practice and the use of instructional technology. This article provides informed commentary on the state of school reform and the need for continuous improvement, instructional improvement and instructional technology improvement. It also presents advocacy for the use of a continuous improvement system called le...

Using a Low-Fidelity Wargame for Training Fleet-level Command and Control in the Classroom

Today, the military increasingly rely on simulators to support training and education. One reason for this is simulators are seen as a cost-effective to achieve realistic training. Modern simulators can replicate almost any aspect of the real world, a development in part driven by the implicit assumption that the better the simulator, the better the training. But does higher fidelity necessaril...

From Folktales to Fiction: Orphan Characters in Children's Literature

ABSTRAC T ORPHANHEROES AND HEROINES ARE familiar characters in children’s literature, particularly in the fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This type of protagonist has its roots in folktales. An analysis of fifty folktales from different cultures reveals that, while the details of orphan stories vary, there are some universal elements. A comparison of these patterns to a l...

Identifying Motifs in Folktales using Topic Models

With the undertake of various folktale digitalization initiatives, the need for computational aids to explore these collections is increasing. In this paper we compare Labeled LDA (L-LDA) to a simple retrieval model on the task of identifying motifs in folktales. We show that both methods are well able to successfully discriminate between relevant and irrelevant motifs. L-LDA represents motifs ...