This paper focuses on the challenges related to the development of an educational design for serious games. This paper is based on the project Serious Games on a Global Market Place (2007-2010) founded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research, in which an online game-based platform for English, as foreign language in primary school, and a learning game for social science in secondary school...

La ludolinguistica applicata all’insegnamento della lingua italiana è una pratica abbastanza diffusa nella scuola italiana, in particolare primaria e dell’infanzia. In questo contributo si propone di utilizzare estesamente tale didattica individuando tipologie esercizi loro possibile utilizzo secondaria primo grado. Inoltre ci confrontare la usata glottodidattica con L1. L’articolo prende le mo...

In this article, we discuss the problem of pedagogical indexation of texts for language learning and address it under the scope of the notion of “pedagogical context”. This prompts us to propose a new version of a model based on a couple formed of two entities : prisms and facets. We first evoke the importance of material selection in the task of planing a language class in order to introduce o...

Today, net-based forums are widely used within various types of educational settings. This article reports on a study of the communication in asynchronous forums by student teachers enrolled in a university course in the teaching of English as a foreign language (didactics) in Norway. The article aims to illustrate the complexity of the interaction going on in the forums in terms of roles, comm...

BACKGROUND Levels of endoscopic demand and capacity in West Africa are unclear. OBJECTIVES This paper aims to: 1. describe the current labor and endoscopic capacity, 2. quantify the impact of a mixed-methods endoscopy course on healthcare professionals in West Africa, and 3. quantify the types of diagnoses encountered. METHODS In a three-day course, healthcare professionals were surveyed on...

Textbooks are a resource that is widely used in language classes. For this reason, they also one of the principal topics research on field didactics. Several studies were conducted about Portuguese as mother tongue textbooks, but there lack researches and information concerning textbooks foreign language. In study, researcher analyses discourse authors/editors ‘opening texts’ for (European) lan...