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Interventions for English Learners With Learning Disabilities: 2002–2022
Get PDFThis systematic review addresses the research gap in understanding the efficacy of experimental interventions designed to improve the academic outcomes of English Learners with Learning Disabilities (ELswLD). After conducting a rich evaluation of reviews related to English Learners and to students who have disabilities, we contextualize the need for a review that examines intervention research for K-12 students at the intersection of these populations that are twice affected by language and language development intricacies. A four-step literature search process identified 15 studies examining the intervention of K-12 ELswLD published between 2002 and 2022. Specifically, among the 15 selected studies, three interventions addressed vocabulary learning, three focused on mathematics problem-solving skills hindered by English vocabulary, six targeted reading comprehension, and three aimed to improve writing skills. The studies were analyzed for their characteristics, including research design, participants, intervention strategies, intensity/duration, dependent variables, and results. We also discuss the practical implications from the selected studies. Research findings revealed limited research on specific intervention approaches for ELswLD and the scarcity of technology-enhanced intervention. This review synthesizes these findings and offers valuable insights for researchers and practitioners seeking to improve academic outcomes for ELswLDs. The interventions will be of interest to educators interested in language development that leads to improving academic outcomes of English learners with learning disabilities
Teacher Self-Efficacy and Mathematics Achievement of Secondary-Level Students With Disabilities
Get PDFStudents with learning and other education-related disabilities generally demonstrate low mathematics achievement. While this is a complex phenomenon, one related factor may be low teacher self-efficacy for teaching mathematics to these students. The current study was a preliminary investigation (N = 40) into (a) differences in self-efficacy between general, special, and dual-licensed educators and (b) correlations between teacher self-efficacy and student achievement. Findings revealed that special educators reported the highest self-efficacy for inclusive practice whereas dual-licensed teachers reported the highest self-efficacy for mathematics instruction. Correlations between teacher self-efficacy and student achievement were weak for general educators and strong for dual-licensed teachers (special educators not included in correlational analysis). Findings indicate the value of studying these constructs on a larger and more nuanced scale. Implications for practice include opportunities to merge knowledge of mathematics pedagogy with instructional practices for students with learning disabilities
Irritation und Interpretation: Gespräche Lehramtsstudierender zum Kurzfilm NIMIC (2019)
Get PDFDie Filmdidaktik Deutsch steht seit Längerem vor dem Problem, dass theoretische Konzepte und didaktische Modellierungen kaum in der Unterrichtspraxis ankommen. Der Beitrag widmet sich diesem Desiderat der Professionsforschung, indem er Filmgespräche Lehramtsstudierender im Fach Deutsch (BA) in Hinblick auf das (teilweise informell vorliegende) filmästhetische Wissen untersucht, das sie zur Interpretation eines Kurzfilms nutzen. Den Studierenden wurde der Kurzfilm Nimic (D/GB/USA 2019) des Regisseurs Yorgos Lanthimos gezeigt. Nimic fordert die Rezipient:innen aufgrund seiner experimentellen Narrationsstruktur sowohl in Bezug auf die Einordnung in tradierte Spielfilmgenres als auch auf den Umgang mit Leerstellen und die Suche nach konsistenten Deutungen heraus. Die leitfadengestützten Filmgespräche wurden mit einer Fragebogenerhebung kombiniert. Die Auswertung der Gespräche erfolgte mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen lassen sich Hinweise für die universitäre Ausbildung im Bereich der medienorientierten Deutschdidaktik ableiten.
Abstract (English): Irritation and Interpretation. Discussions of Teacher Training Students on the Short Film NIMIC (2019)
Film didactics as part of German philology has long been faced with the problem that theoretical concepts and didactic models are rarely applied in teaching practice. This article addresses this desideratum of research on teacher education by examining film discussions of students of German as a school subject (BA) with regard to the (partly informal) film-aesthetic knowledge they use to interpret a short film. The students were shown the short film Nimic (D/GB/USA 2019) by director Yorgos Lanthimos. Due to its experimental narrative structure, Nimic challenges the recipients both in terms of classification in traditional feature film genres and in terms of dealing with ellipses and the search for consistent interpretations. The guided film discussions were combined with a questionnaire survey. The interviews were evaluated using qualitative content analysis. Based on the results, indications for university education in the field of media-oriented German didactics can be derived.
"A Message to the Emperor" & "The Battle of the Cradle": Gendered Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Great War
Get PDFOlive Schreiner, an outstanding feminist, political activist and prose writer from South Africa, is one of those remarkable late 19th century English cultured women who locate themselves within and beyond the categories of war, peace, empire and nation. In refusing to accept \u27all the boundaries, dichotomies, and divisions, which are the hallmark of sexist society\u27 she aims to \u27re-make art and society\u27 as Liz Stanley rightfully observes (235). [...] Most interesting in the context of gender and war is her claim for an ultimate deconstruction of any fixed socio-cultural and sexual identity. In acknowledging the interaction of parameters like ethnicity, culture, social status, setting, class and gender in traditional concepts of identity construction, Schreiner envisions a universal identity and acknowledges that this can only be achieved through a prior dismantling of all boundaries and borderlines, especially those which limit women\u27s freedom and liberty in the private, regional, national and international sphere. It is our intention to enter into the domain of war and to labor there till in the course of generations we have extinguished it. (Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour 69
Review: "Is She Not He Or He Not She?"
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Mark Rylance, Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre, explains this year\u27s Season of Regime Change as focusing on plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe which "explore power and change on three levels: in our states, in our marriages, and in our relationship to the divine." To these notions I would like to add gender relations, as the issues mentioned are highlighted in different productions precisely through an illuminating use of notions of femininity and masculinity. This seems to be most conspicuous in the Globe productions of Shakespeare\u27s Richard II and Richard III, the first staged by the Globe\u27s Men\u27s Company, the latter presented by the Women\u27s Company (introduced on the Globe\u27s stage for the first time)
Review: Dyer, Richard. The Culture of Queers.
No full textRichard Dyer, Professor of Film Studies at The University of Warwick (GB), is the author of several highly acclaimed works such as Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film (1990), The Matter of Images (1993) and White (1997). His latest monograph is a collection of fourteen essays out of which only two were specifically written for this volume. The task of this collection is to present a wide range of genres, aesthetics and individuals as "cultural productions", which together help to form a notion of male queer culture before the infamous Stonewall riots in 1969. Each of these individual articles can be loosely linked to the overall historical context to which The Culture of Queers adheres. Looking at the contribution made by queer cultural production before the era of Gay Pride, Act Up and Gay Studies, their underlying queer quality, Dyer suggests, proves to have been even more coded, subversive, and isolated than its manifestations and representations nowadays are
Queering Popular Culture: Female Spectators and the Appeal of Writing Slash Fan Fiction
Get PDFThe advent of the internet has provided a larger forum for and brought increased visibility to a number of alternative writing practices. One of the more curious ones is slash fan fiction, a particular type of queer fan fiction which is written almost exclusively by women of all sexual orientations for a predominantly female audience, featuring same-sex relationships between (mostly) male TV characters. In my essay I argue that this particular type of fan fiction is a communal and grass roots critique not only of popular culture but also of heterosexual hegemonic notions of gender and sexuality