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Yoko Suganuma Oi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper analyzes writing tasks in academic writing textbooks for Japanese university students, focusing on the organization and difficulty of these tasks based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). A total of 411 writing tasks from 30 textbooks were coded by two experienced Japanese English teachers. The author…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Writing Instruction, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Barrot, Jessie S. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
Since the introduction of task-based language teaching, tasks have become an integral component of the curriculum, ESL classrooms, and ELT coursebooks in the Philippines. Hence, this study examines the complexity of tasks in selected ELT coursebooks. Specifically, this study sought to determine the complexity features of tasks per grade level and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Cîineanu, Mariana-Doina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2018
In this paper, we analyse the 6th grade Geography textbook published in 2018 at the Didactic and Pedagogical Publishing House S.A., Bucharest. The textbook devised in accordance with the school curriculum approved in 2017 began to be used in schools in Romania starting with the school year 2018-2019. The structure of the book (thematic units and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Human Geography, Geography Instruction, Textbooks
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Daghan, Gökhan; Akkoyunlu, Buket – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
In this study, Information Technologies teachers' views and usage cases on performance based assesment methods (PBAMs) are examined. It is aimed to find out which of the PBAMs are used frequently or not used, preference reasons of these methods and opinions about the applicability of them. Study is designed with the phenomenological design which…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Performance Based Assessment, Information Technology, Evaluation Methods
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Broman, Karolina; Bernholt, Sascha; Parchmann, Ilka – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2015
Background: Context-based learning approaches are used to enhance students' interest in, and knowledge about, science. According to different empirical studies, students' interest is improved by applying these more non-conventional approaches, while effects on learning outcomes are less coherent. Hence, further insights are needed into the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Context Effect, Problem Solving
Scandura, Joseph M. – 1973
This article has two main theses: (1) Qualitative improvements in education will not come about as a result of rhetoric or superficial proposals for solutions made by the social-activist breed of educator, but rather as a result of a deeper understanding of the teaching-learning process, and the development and use of new and better principles of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Content Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Difficulty Level