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From Mock Interviews to Real Job Interviews: Assessing the Efficacy of Business Chinese Instruction
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Zhongqi Shi; Shuai Li – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The study investigates whether and how mock interviews, an instructional component of business Chinese courses, prepare students for real interviews. The study included 11 American undergraduate students who participated in a 10-week summer study abroad program in China. Participants underwent two rounds of mock interviews with their instructors…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Teaching Methods, Work Environment, Business Communication
Cultivating Students' Computational Thinking through Student-Robot Interactions in Robotics Education
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Qu, Jing Ru; Fok, Ping Kwan – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
This research focuses on student-robot interaction in the learning environment of robotics education (RE) and attempts to explore how it cultivates students' computational thinking (CT). Different from child-robot interactions as investigated in the social robot field, student-robot (S-R) interactions focus mainly on the process of interaction…
Descriptors: Robotics, Teaching Methods, Student Role, Thinking Skills
Can Pair Learning Improve Students' Troubleshooting Performance in Robotics Education?
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Zhong, Baichang; Li, Tingting – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
In Robotics Education (RE), the hands-on experience with troubleshooting problems is seen as a good catalyst to enhance the participants' problem-solving skills. Based on the pedagogical technique of collaborative learning and pair programming, pair learning is an emerging and potential method in RE, which means that students collaborate in pairs…
Descriptors: Robotics, Troubleshooting, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Children and Adolescent Learners. TESOL Classroom Practice Series
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Dantas-Whitney, Maria, Ed.; Rilling, Sarah, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2010
This volume in the TESOL Classroom Practice Series presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with children and adolescent language learners. These practices take into account the unique needs and characteristics of these age groups and reflect a wide range of educational contexts, goals, and challenges from classrooms in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Literacy Education, Electronic Publishing
A Frog in a Well Shaft: Lessons from China on Learning to Teach
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Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Butcher, John – New Educator, 2009
Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Preservice Teachers
New Horizons in Education, 2003.
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Ho, Kwok Keung, Ed. – New Horizons in Education, 2003
This journal, written in English and Chinese, includes the following papers: "Values for Creativity: A Study among Undergraduates in Hong Kong and Guangzhou" (Xia Dong Yue and Kok Leung); "The Present Situation of Family Education at the Turn of the Century: An Investigation in Three South-Eastern Provinces in China" (Feng…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, College School Cooperation, Discipline