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Ozverir, Ildeniz; Osam, Ulker Vanci; Herrington, Jan – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Achieving communicative competency in English classes has been a key goal in contexts where English is taught as a foreign language (EFL). During this process, however, integrating the difficulty and complexity of real life tasks into classroom teaching has often been disregarded. Lack of opportunities for authentic language use often results in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Christou, Constantinos; Papageorgiou, Eleni – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Based on a synthesis of the literature in inductive reasoning, a framework for prescribing and assessing mathematics inductive reasoning of primary school students was formulated and validated. The major constructs incorporated in this framework were students' cognitive abilities of finding similarities and/or dissimilarities among attributes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Mathematical Concepts, Factor Analysis
Pantziara, Marilena; Gagatsis, Athanasios; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper explores the role of diagrams in a specific problem solving process. Two types of tests were administered to 194, 12 year old students, each of which consisted of six non-routine problems that could be solved with the use of a diagram. In Test A students were asked to respond to the problems in any way they wished whereas in Test B…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving