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Visual Design as a Holistic Experience: How Students' Emotional Responses to the Visual Design of Instructional Materials Are Formed
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Tomita, Kei – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Despite the recognized importance of emotion in learning (Kim and Pekrun in Handbook of research on educational communications and technology, 4th ed., Springer, pp. 65-75, 2014), instructional material design research primarily focuses on cognition, tending to ignore the affective dimension (Brom et al. in Educ Res Rev 25:100-119, 2018). To…
Descriptors: Design, Emotional Response, Learning Processes, Material Development
A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Exploration of EFL Learners' Perceptions of What Contributes to the Readability of Model Paragraphs
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Tuyen Thanh Nguyen; John R. Baker; Thao Quang Le – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigated what features undergraduate EFL learners perceive as affecting the difficulty of model paragraphs. Four hundred and seventy-five Vietnamese undergraduates participated in a partial least squares structural equation model design. They ranked five paragraphs from easiest to most difficult and responded to a 10-point Likert…
Descriptors: Readability, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning