Primarily, insights into my learning on a Masters distance course with the University of Nottingham.
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…
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…
Chekhov’s 12 Subversive Endings Looking for direction in terms of writing good ending to my short story, Provocations of Light – part 1 and part 2 – my tutor encouraged us to check out some of Chekhov’s Subversive Endings: 1. Anti-epilogue If an epilogue is a short statement about what happens to the characters after…
Write to the End Every story needs a good ending. And no more is that true than for the short story I have been working on this semester. Following techniques suggested by my tutor, I have developed a very organic work, the first draft not really having a clear direction, but just being whatever came…
Learning, Teaching and Sharing As per my previous post of wanting to combine my skills and interest into one, the result of a serious brainstorm with a friend before I started my Masters in DTLT last year, was that of discussions about methodology with teachers. Add a healthy dose of technology, and what do we…
Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics is but one area in the vast field that is SLA, or Second Language Acquisition. It is divided into three parts: – Neurolinguistics (What happens in the brain, how we learn and how we use a language) – Cognitive Psychology (How language processes occur) – Psychological Factors (Learner Differences) Psychological Factors In terms…