Essays about: "teaching perspective"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 282 essays containing the words teaching perspective.

  1. 16. Frankenstein and the Timelessness of Queer Identities: Teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through Queer Theory in the Upper-Secondary EFL classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Elsa Brandt; [2023]
    Keywords : Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; queer theory; queer pedagogy; EFL; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the pivotal gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley through a close queer reading, focusing on excerpts featuring the artificially created creature and their maker, Victor Frankenstein. The queer perspective is applied to the gender identity and expression of the creature, which is a reading that lends itself to the teaching of the novel to Swedish upper-secondary students because of the timelessness of the themes and its close ties to the 2022 recommendations of the Swedish National Agency for Education regarding sexuality, consent, and relationships. READ MORE

  3. 17. “But as a deeper dive, I want to focus on this” : Discourse reflexivity in TED talks

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Eidvilė Poškė; [2023]
    Keywords : metadiscourse; reflexivity; TED talks; discourse functions; monologic discourse;

    Abstract : Metadiscourse, or discourse about discourse, manifests itself in both spoken and written genres. However, the focus of existing studies of spoken metadiscourse remains mainly on academic speaking (Hyland, 2017), whereas research on metadiscourse in spoken non-academic genres is much less common. READ MORE

  4. 18. Assessing L2 grammar: English teachers’ accounts

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Elin Lomgren; [2023]
    Keywords : English teachers in Sweden; English L2 grammatical assessment; grammatical assessment patterns; teachers’ reasonings about assessing grammar; lower secondary school; semi-structured interviews.;

    Abstract : Language teachers’ accounts regarding grammatical assessment have changed over the years. Researchers have presented conflicting approaches, methods and different materials language teachers can use when assessing pupils’ L2 grammar. READ MORE

  5. 19. ‘‘Well, thank God I did not have to do that.’’: How Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Can Be Used To Enhance an Understanding of Postcolonial Theory in the ESL Classroom

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nadine Noureddine; [2023]
    Keywords : Postcolonial theory; othering; unhomeliness; postcolonial teaching; collaborative learning;

    Abstract : Teachers tend to refrain from using a postcolonial perspective in their teaching of literaturebecause they do not know quite how to approach the task. The purpose of this essay is to remedy such a problem. The argument is built on three concepts: unhomeliness, dual identities and othering. READ MORE

  6. 20. Understandings of musical interpretationamong tertiary percussion students andteachers in Sweden : A hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Musikhögskolan

    Author : Filip Korošec; [2023]
    Keywords : Musical interpretation; percussion; tertiary music education; individual tuition;

    Abstract : Musical interpretation is, despite being commonly discussed in practice, an under researchedarea. Additionally, most of the studies we have, concentrate on western classical piano players.The aim of this thesis is to contribute another perspective and investigate how tertiarypercussion students and teachers understand musical interpretation. READ MORE