Applying Innovative Teaching Methods in a Second Language Classroom

Applying Innovative Spirit to Multimedia Foreign Language Teaching

It has become many English educators’ common view as well as spontaneous action to implement multimedia-assisted foreign language teaching. It is the advanced media technology that has changed the former teaching pattern. However, will such a teaching pattern achieve success? Under new circumstances, multimedia foreign language teaching seems a challenge for teachers. Only with innovative educa...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

Innovative teaching methods in Engineering

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exp...

[task-based Language Teaching: a Classroom Framework]

Applying Sequential Analysis to Teaching Methods: Case Study of a Csl Classroom

Sequential analysis tests the statistical significance of the sequential relationship between acts. This method of analysis has been widely used in pedagogical scholarship; however, it has not yet been applied to the study of language teaching. This study uses sequential analysis to examine the different instructional methods among nine instructors of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL). The ana...

Using Clickers in the Second-Language Classroom

Results: Our sample size is too small to draw empirical conclusions about whether clickers alone improve grades, but subjectively there was a clear improvement in the classroom dynamic when using the clicker technology. The students were engaged and enjoyed the immediate feedback and resulting peer interaction. The instant feedback also enabled the professor to recognize and address a grammatic...