Theories of Parental Involvement: Cultural Capital Theory and predicting Parental Involvement in Northwest Indiana Schools Cultural Capital Theory This paper by Ringenberg, McElwee and Isreal (2009) unveils yet another powerful theory that helps us understand how parental interactions may help or hinder student academic success: Cultural Capital Theory. According to Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, children…
What Dreams May Come? Describing myself as a visual learner, I was very pleased to see the use of images take centre stage of this webinar. Indeed, photographs, pictures and drawings are all great ways to stimulate ideas and encourage reflection in the classroom. The webinar presenter, Terry Prosser, gave us lots of ideas for…
Theories of Parental Involvement: The Concept of Parent Involvement. Some theoretical and empirical considerations Defining PI “Continuing research for my SLA project, I turn to a paper which gives a thorough review of the term Parental Involvement (PI) and the research undertaken to better understand and quantify it. The authors analyse twelve selected studies which…
Theories of Parental Involvement: Parental Influences on Achievement Motivation and Student Engagement “There exists a shared understanding that healthy and academic and psychosocial development cannot occur if key constituents of the child’s upbringing – parents, teachers, and community members – operate in a vacuum or, worse, are in conflict.” (p323). If greater parental involvement leads…
My SLA Project Further to my previous post on the research I am doing to better understand the role of parents and family in their children’s (language) learning journey, I am considering how psycholinguistic approaches may help further address my igniting question. The question in it’s current form is To what extent does parental involvement…
This week I am thinking about different strategies to help me edit my short story: Provocations of Light, currently written as Part 1 and Part 2. As per the picture above, there are many stock activities we can employ to proofread our work. However, being on a Creative Writing course, I wanted to try something…
Thinking Skills This webinar was particularly apt, having just recorded a podcast about Bloom’s Taxonomy in Chinese for my Educollaborate project. These experiences combined have Bloom’s six categories etched into my brain in both English and Chinese! But what is Bloom’s Taxonomy? Well, they are six levels of cognition that may be used by educators…
大家好！欢迎说听瑞娜说中文！ 今天我用数字化联系中文。 首先我用手机自我录制。 然后我用imovie放个图片。 最后，我用一个字幕网站加字幕。 （不好意思，我做一个错误。‘英文字幕’＝中文字幕 。‘中文字幕’＝英文字幕。很抱歉！） 有VPN的人也可以在YouTube看! 额外资源 读（英文）中国人对纪录片的反应 我的字幕我在dotsub做的。下次会用Amara。后来告诉你们那个是最好的。
In this interview I chat about learning and teaching with Doug Marbach, a Beijing-based EFL Coach with a specialism in Academic Writing. Listen to the audio to learn more about Doug’s: – learning and teaching background – passion for coaching rather than teaching – dealings with technology in the classroom & iBT TOEFL preparation – experience…
昨天晚上我和我的朋友一起去音乐厅看演出。我没想到我会玩得那么开心！中国人和有外国人都来看子玉。她是加拿大人。一个非常有经验的歌手。因为她会说一口流利的汉语，所以她都用英语和汉语唱歌。子玉唱的歌词很有意义。她常常唱跟社会问题有关的歌。她很厉害！ 如果你对双语歌词（英语和汉语）感兴趣，而且听到二胡，中国特殊的乐器，那我邀请你们去子玉的网站听一下她的很好听的歌。我特别喜欢‘老外’这个歌。合唱的歌词就是：‘我不只是个老外！’。 我也经常这样想。。。 Ember Swift 我的生词 音乐厅 – yin1yue4ting1 – concert hall 歌词 – ge1ci2 – lyrics 二胡 – er4hu2 – erhu, a two-stringed bowed instrument 合唱 – he2chang4 – chorus