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Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu uprzejmie informuje, że w dniu 13 grudnia 2013 roku, o godz. 11.30 w sali 109a, w budynku Coll. Novum przy Al. Niepodległości 4 odbędzie się publiczna obrona rozprawy doktorskiej

mgr ZOFII MALISZ

Tytuł rozprawy doktorskiej:
“Speech rhythm variability in Polish and English: A study of interaction between rhythmic levels.”

Promotor przewodu doktorskiego:
Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (UAM)

Recenzenci rozprawy doktorskiej:
prof. dr Petra Wagner (Uniwersytet w Bielefeld)
dr hab. Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, prof. UŁ (UŁ)

Rozprawa doktorska znajduje się do wglądu w Bibliotece UAM przy ul. Ratajczaka 38/40.

Dziekan Wydziału Anglistyki UAM
Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Dziubalska - Kołaczyk

Tablit and ETOS: Improving Children’s Science understanding and Scientific Discourse

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Anna Basińska, Urszula Zielińska, Dawid Pietrala

During the past three years, the authors of this abstract have collaborated to produce a new generation of instructional treatments that engage young learners in conversations in which they learn to reason about and construct science explanations as well as learn English when learning scientific concepts. The treatments involve classroom conversations, in which the teacher facilitates conversations where students explain science presented in animations, and conversations in an immersive multimedia environment. The results of these treatments, based on formal evaluations of students’ learning gains, and interviews with students and teachers, indicate that a) students become fully engaged by the instructional treatments, and report that they are motivated to learn science after using them, b) teachers have embraced the pedagogy and believe it is highly beneficial to their teaching effectiveness and their students’ achievement, and c) students who used the treatments achieved significant learning gains, with strong effect sizes, compared to students who received traditional classroom instruction. Our talk will describe and provide demonstrations of two programs, Tablit (kindergartens) and ETOS (primary and junior high schools), which were funded by grants from the EU in Poland.