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Direct linkBriley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Download full textThongsongsee, Juthamas; Watanapokakul, Sasa – rEFLections, 2023
Word stress instruction has increasingly become a focus among EFL teachers. Owing to the phonological differences between the learner's first language and English, EFL learners of different nationalities encounter varying degrees of difficulty when pronouncing English polysyllabic words. The majority of EFL students studying medicine tend to find…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, English for Special Purposes
Kruppa, Jochen; Rohmann, Jessica; Herrmann, Carolin; Sieg, Miriam; Rubarth, Kerstin; Piper, Sophie – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for" (Wittgenstein). When learning something completely new, we connect the unknown term to an already existing part of our knowledge. We can only build new ideas and insights upon an existing conceptual foundation. In the field of statistics, we…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, College Faculty, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Achievement
Taibu, Rex; Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
In this research an instrument was developed to measure students' anxiety about the jargon of physics. Levels of anxiety were then compared with student content performance and general classroom anxiety. Anxiety levels were also compared based on students' language of origin (native vs. nonnative English speaking students). Statistical analyses…
Descriptors: Physics, Academic Language, Anxiety, Introductory Courses
Greenup, Jaime – Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2008
This research report investigates how government departments and agencies communicate with post-16 education and training organisations, and how those working in it perceive the communications. Specifically, this report details the findings from an online survey distributed to a cross-section of people working in post-16 education and training.…
Descriptors: Communications, Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education, Communication Strategies
Brennan, Mark; Brennan, Roslin E. – 1990
The experience of the child victim as a courtroom witness in sexual abuse cases is examined in this study of a testing program involving 30 children aged 6 to 15. The purpose of the study was to identify needs not recognized by courts that can be responded to, denied, or exacerbated through language. Based on court transcripts, differences were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Children
Rudd, Rima E.; Anderson, Jennie E. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2006
The "health literacy environment" of a healthcare facility represents the expectations, preferences, and skills of those providing health information and services. Some of these demands are in the form of physical aspects of the hospital or health center, such as signs and postings. At the same time, access to and navigation of health…
Descriptors: Health Services, Literacy, Health Materials, Access to Information
