Using literature and movies for integrated skills development in English Language Teaching

2009-04-01
TESL Reporter

Suggestions

Using literature to enhance language and cultural awareness
Tümer, Tuğçe Çankaya; Gürbüz, Nurdan; Department of English Language Teaching (2010)
Language teachers, including educators from all levels – from primary to college level – and teacher trainers have all agreed with the idea that it is impossible to consider language skills as independent from each other since each of them has a great contribution to the language itself as a whole system. However; it cannot be ignored that all language teachers have also agreed with the idea that reading is a skill that has its own significance, especially in foreign language education. What makes reading s...
Using electronic portfolios to promote reflective thinking in language teacher education
Ayan, Didem (Informa UK Limited, 2011-01-01)
This study aimed at investigating the role of electronic portfolios in fostering pre-service teachers' reflective thinking. The research was conducted with pre-service English language teachers enrolled in a practicum course in an undergraduate teacher education programme in Turkey. The data were collected through e-portfolios and interviews. The findings revealed that e-portfolios gave participants a sense of ownership, fostered reflecting thinking, supported collaboration and allowed them to make connecti...
Using e learning for communities of practice
Gürbüz, Tarkan (null; 2010-12-01)
Learning is more considered to be a collaborative problem solving process that involves social network relations and a common shared experience. The profound changes demonstrate the essential role of supportive relationship in education and emphasize the importance of building learning communities, communities of practice and collaboration in learning environments. The advent of eLearning added new meaning to education, and introduced the possibilities for building online learning communities and communitie...
Using communities of practice in developing health-related fitness knowledge of physical education teachers : impact on student learning
Hünük, Deniz; İnce, Mustafa Levent; Department of Physical Education and Sports (2012)
The purpose of this study was to examine 1) the ways physical education teachers’ interact in a community of practice (CoP) 2) the effects of participation in CoP on the physical educators’ and their students’ health-related fitness (HRF) content knowledge (CK) and 3) the effects of physical education teachers’ CoP experience on their HRF pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) construction process. Twelve experienced physical education teachers (six in treatment, six in control group) and 278 of their students...
Using visual aids in teaching expository writing.
Köroğlu, Ferhan; Department of English Language Teaching (1986)
Citation Formats
B. Eröz Tuğa, “Using literature and movies for integrated skills development in English Language Teaching,” TESL Reporter, pp. 58–65, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/82140.