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TITLE:   Incorporating multicultural literature in English language teaching curriculum DATE OF READING: 30 MARCH 2021 Author:  Behbood Mohammadzadeh Published:  August 2009 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences" Volume 1, Issue 1 Pages 23-29 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.008 Summary:  The research aims to examine the ways of incorporating multicultural literary texts in English language teaching curriculum. Teachers mainly use traditional reading methods, therefore, diverse students are unaware of, for example, Eurocentric prejudices that can be examined only by using postcolonial literary criticism. As a result, these teachers are not able to encourage their students to admit uncritically challenging representations of various cultural groups as they encounter these representations in their literary texts. By using the postcolonial literary theory will lead their students to understand more effectively t

TITLE:   The Study of the Perception of Code-switching to English in German Advertising DATE OF READING: 23 MARCH 2021 Author:  Anna V. Zhiganova Published:  14 December 2016 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences" Volume 236, Pages 225-229 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.12.011 Summary:  The research highlights the increasing role of code-switching to English in the context of global transformations. A survey conducted among the German-speaking community was aimed at finding out what socio-cultural values English conveys and how native speakers perceive the presence of English-inserted elements in an advertisement. It showed that code-switching to English is considered a complex phenomenon that has both positive and negative aspects. Code-switching to English looks suitable and does not encounter any tension on the part of the audience. Introduction: 1 paragraphs Body: 3 paragraphs Conclusion: 1 paragraph Perso

TITLE:   Creative Drama: A Way to Understand Shakespeare? DATE OF READING: 16 MARCH 2021 Author:  Berna Guryay Published:  February 2014 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences" Volume 116, Pages 1127-1131 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.356 Summary:  The aim of the study is to determine the perceptions of prospective teachers of English on creative drama and to introduce creative drama as a teaching method. Three hours curriculum related to Shakespeare's life and his contributions to literature was prepared and applied. The participants of this study are thirteen third graders of Dokuz Eylül University. The study ended with a open-ended questions survey about Shakespeare. The results of this study mainly indicate that creative drama can be an effective teaching method in English Language teaching classrooms. Furthermore, it helps to increase students’ motivation and creativity. Introduction: 2 paragraphs

TITLE:   Understanding the role of fun in learning to code DATE OF READING: 9 MARCH 2021 Authors:  Gabriella Tisza, Panos Markopoulos Published: June 2020 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction" Volume 28, 100270 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100270 Summary:  The main point of the journal, is the study set out to investigate the role that fun plays in students learning. They designed a two-hour-long playful coding workshop and measured the experienced fun using FunQ, a  inventory for measuring fun in learning activities. Near 100 kids participated in the study. For the analysis, they used structural equation modeling and mediation analysis. While fun was not shown to have a direct effect on learning assessed through a self-report measure, it had a significant and positive indirect effect on perceived learning through children’s attitude towards coding. In conclusion, research suggests that there is no

TITLE:   Between-language competition as a driving force in foreign language attrition DATE OF READING: 2 March 2021 Authors:  Anne Mickan, James M. McQueen Published:  May 2020 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Cognition" Volume 198, 104218 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104218 Summary:  The key point of the journal is analysis that seeks to show that forgetting is primarily driven by interference and competition from other, related languages. In Experiment they investigated whether interference from the native language and/or from another foreign language affected vocabulary retention. On day 1, Dutch native speakers learned 40 new Spanish words. On day 2, they performed a number of retrieval tasks in either Dutch or English on half of these words, and then memory for all items was tested again in Spanish. Recall in Spanish was slower and less complete for words that received interference than for words that did not. Overall, these findings s