This article contributes to two recent discussions in pedagogy and education, namely, the impact of the participatory approach (Jenkins et al., 2009; Yowell & Rhoten, 2009) on learning and the benefits of student active learning (Sokolova et al., in press; Spasova & Welsh, 2020). The participatory approach incorporates texts and tasks on the topics of interest that are relevant to students’ ...

The notion of a “flipped classroom” has received considerable attention in recent years. This article reports on a project in which an instructor and two students co-created teaching materials to facilitate flipping the classroom. The purpose of the article is twofold. First, we explore some aspects of flipped classrooms in Russian language courses. Second, we reflect on the opportunities and ...

The existence of simple event nouns derived from nouns through -ada (niñada 'childish action', tontada 'stupid action', puñalada 'stabbing') raises different problems in our understanding of the relation between verbs and nouns or, in general, the way in which languages codify an action in a nominal domain. This work proposes that -ada reflects a structure wherre the eventdescribing heads are ...

Denne delrapporten fra følgeevalueringen av omstillingen i Statped, retter oppmerksomheten mot den nye organisasjonsmodellen som ble innført 1. mai 2022. Den gir et innblikk i utviklingen av modellen, i hvilke føringer som ble lagt, og i hvilke erfaringer ansatte har både med modellen som helhet og deres egen plassering i den. Datamaterialet stammer fra dokumenter som gjelder omstillingen, ...

It seems to be a well-kept secret even among mathematicians and scientists that Microsoft Excel can handle complex numbers and functions. This gives easy access to complex arithmetic for a broad audience. Complex functions like sine, exponential and hyperbolic functions are built-in functions in Excel. Together with Excels great graphical capabilities this makes it a nice tool for illustrating complex ...

The locution <i>malgré tout</i>, ‘in spite of all’ or ‘despite everything’, is first and foremost associated with the vexed debate stirred by the exhibition <i>Mémoire des camps</i>, which was organized in Paris in 2001, and the violent reactions provoked by Didi-Huberman’s catalogue essay, “<i>l’images malgré tout</i>”, subsequently expanded into the eponymously titled book in response to the fierce ...

Libraries, museums, and cultural centers have long been widely advocated for diplomacy as an enabler for knowledge sharing, cultural exchange, and scientific cooperation, advancing people-to-people ties and mutual understanding in the international system (Mariano and Vårheim, 2021). In spite of the contribution of libraries as a public sphere institution (Vårheim, Skare, and Lenstra, 2019), a ...

Previous research has shown that changes in the scenarios in which something is learned and recalled, respectively, may result in a subpar performance in memory recollection. The current study aimed to evaluate how changes in the visuo-perceptual environmental learning context impact incidental vocabulary learning. To this end, a highly immersive virtual reality setting was created, and participants ...

The story about the NORMA20 conference is the story about a conference that had to be postponed, as a pandemic prevented us from coming together to present and discuss our research. When we made the decision to postpone just after Easter in 2020, we were all sad and disappointed that all the efforts made by authors, reviewers, LOC and IPC members might be for nothing. However, during 2020, digital ...