In this episode I unpack Tshukudu et al.’s (2021) publication titled “Teachers’ views and experiences on teaching second and subsequent programming languages,” which “understand computing teachers’ views and practices on the use of transfer strategies in teaching second and subsequent programming languages” (p. 297).

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00:00 Intro

00:33 Abstract

01:38 My single sentence summary

02:25 Paper introduction

03:55 Background

07:49 Research setup

09:01 Results

09:05 RQ1: Reasons for multiple languages

11:21 RQ2: Problems/benefits of teaching multiple languages

16:16 RQ3: Views on the use of transfer strategies

17:44 RQ4: Types of transfer strategies

19:20 Discussion

21:35 Lingering questions and thoughts

21:49 What’s the level of transfer when teaching to concept versus label or skill?

26:29 What’s the line between motivation to learn and effectiveness of an approach used to transfer understandings?

28:29 How might we help people with making connections between languages?

28:57 How and when might we teach multiple languages within the same class?

30:10 What transfer strategies might we learn from other domains?

31:13 Outro