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How students perceive the teacher’s use of humour and how it enhances learning in the classroom
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 Recently, scholarship on humour in teaching and learning has focused on the use of instructional humour. Past studies have reported that instructional humour is best used as a pedagogical tool for teaching and learning purposes.
Farhana Bakar, Vijay Mallan
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Editorial for special issue on education and humour: Education and humour as tools for social awareness and critical consciousness in contemporary classrooms [PDF]
, 2015 It is not new to consider the instructive power of humour. Both Plato and Aristotle, through their superiority theories, saw the benefit of wit as a social corrective, although they remained suspicious of the uneducated laughter of the masses (Plato in ...
Mora, RA, Weaver, S, Lindo, LM
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Presenting and perceiving humour in Estonian tourism settings
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 Humour plays a significant role in everyday interactions. Individuals perceive humour differently and experience various emotions, from exaltation to umbrage. Therefore, providing humorous communication in customer service is challenging. The aim of this
Marit Piirman, Katrin Saks
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Humour and belonging: a thematic review [PDF]
, 2022 Serving as introduction to this Special Issue, this article presents a thematic review of topics involved in studies on humour and belonging. It briefly elaborates on the intricacies of concepts such as humour, sense of humour and belonging and their ...
Jessica Milner Davis +3 more
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Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022 For the most part, information landscapes such as libraries are structured, organized, created, and used by the dominant groups. These spaces may be unfamiliar territory for many students.
Maha Kumaran, Tasha Maddison
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The European Journal of Humour ResearchHumour in English Language Teaching (ELT) is known to be beneficial for both the educators and students. However, the literature addressing the types of humour used by Malaysian lecturers in higher education on this matter are yet to be explored.
Arif Hakimi Zulazli +5 more
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Investigating the potential of humour in EFL classrooms: An attitudinal study
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 Studies on humour have indicated that humour has a lot to offer to both language teachers and learners. Creating a positive classroom environment and lowering affective barriers to language learning are among the several effects of humour.
Talip Gonulal
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, 2020 This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to “humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, i.e. by reliance on terms and categories which are English-specific, such as ‘amusing’, ‘joking’
Goddard, Cliff
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Humour Processing. The Factors that Play a Role in Understanding Humour
Forum Lingwistyczne, 2019 This article addresses the skills involved in processing humour. Both adults and children enjoy puns, jokes, and riddles and employ humour in interaction with friends.
Sandra Levey, Joseph Agius
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Have media texts become more humorous?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 As a research topic, humour has drawn much attention from multiple disciplines including linguistics. Based on Engelthaler & Hills’ (2018) humour scale, this study developed a measure named Humour Index (HMI) to quantify the degree of humour of texts ...
Haoran Zhu, Yueqing Deng
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