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Natour, Yaser S.; Darawsheh, Wesam; Sartawi, AbdelAziz M.; Marie, Basem A.; Efthymiou, Effie – Cogent Education, 2016
There is a contemporary emphasis on researching the effects of phonological awareness on reading skills though morphological awareness correlates more highly with reading. The purpose of the study was to investigate the patterns of reading errors from a morphological perspective (level of morphological complexity) and lexical category. One hundred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Reading Skills, Grade 1
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Alford, L. Maurice – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
Elwyn Richardson's experimental approach to teaching and learning and Oruaiti was officially sanctioned, but the history of education in Aotearoa/New Zealand shows that teachers have been typically conformist. In this article, I suggest that positivist paradigms from the industrial age continue to shape classroom teaching, partly because of norms…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders
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Yuan, Yang; Fang, Lu – English Language Teaching, 2016
Our country is a multi-ethnic country with plentiful national culture achievements, and the development of the national culture shows a trend of diversity, so cultural identity construction is particularly important. Article analyzes the concept of national identity, the relation between cultural identity and ethnic identity, the present situation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, English Instruction, College English
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Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Colwell, Jennifer – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
This study describes the social contexts in which four-year-olds undertake practitioner-assigned cognitive/learning tasks within preschools and the different experiences these contexts provide for children. Data was collected in 34 preschool settings in South East England, using a phenomenographic mapping of activities and social groupings during…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Young Children, Preschool Education, Phenomenology
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Kang, Haijun; Chang, Bo – Journal of International Students, 2016
There is a lack of shared understanding of how culture impacts learning in online environment. Utilizing document analysis, the authors in this research study culture's impact on the learning behaviors of student sojourners from Confucius culture studying in Western online learning context. The shared understandings of Confucius culture and…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Akgün, Ismail Hakan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The aim of this research is to determine Social Studies teacher candidates' intended uses of social networks in terms of various variables. The research was carried out by using screening model of quantitative research methods. In the study, "The Social Network Intended Use Scale" was used as a data collection tool. As a result of the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Social Networks, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers
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Yaghmour, Kholoud Subhi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The study aimed to investigate the Blended Education strategy in the achievement of the third grade students in mathematics. The study sample consisted of (97) male and female students distributed on four classes: (47) male and female students in the experimental group and (50) male and female students in the control group. To achieve the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 3, Elementary School Mathematics
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Shtulman, Andrew; Neal, Cara; Lindquist, Gabrielle – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Evolution by natural selection is often relegated to the high school curriculum on the assumption that younger students cannot grasp its complexity. We sought to test that assumption by teaching children ages 4-12 (n = 96) a selection-based explanation for biological adaptation and comparing their success to that of adults…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Cognitive Ability, Age Differences
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Aleeva, Gulnara Kh.; Safiullina, Gulshat R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article discusses the problem of mastering new vocabulary at the English language classes. The brief review of the bilingual English-Russian printed and electronic Dictionaries used at the practical classes of English for the students of the first and second courses of the Germanic Philology Department of Kazan Federal University. The method…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Ariyanti – Dinamika Ilmu, 2016
Writing is one of the most important aspects in English language acquisition. Teaching writing has its own challenges since there are some steps and requirements that teachers should prepare to undertake in the classroom. This article is aimed to discuss teaching and learning writing in the classroom based on theoretical conceptualisation. In…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Gallagher, Colleen – Language and Education, 2016
Recognizing the importance of academic language for students' success in schools, this article reports on an investigation of how narrative-focused literacy events in the classroom provide opportunities for academic language socialization. Data were collected from one public elementary school in a major metropolitan area in the Mid-Atlantic region…
Descriptors: Socialization, Academic Discourse, Classroom Communication, Kindergarten
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Dastjerdi, Negin Barat – Australian Educational Computing, 2016
The research aims at the evaluation of ICT use in teaching-learning process to the students of Isfahan elementary schools. The method of this research is descriptive-surveying. The statistical population of the study was all teachers of Isfahan elementary schools. The sample size was determined 350 persons that selected through cluster sampling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary Schools
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Naser, Rina Abdallah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The current study seeks to identify the level of creative behavior among teachers of public schools within the Green Line, based on gender, academic qualification, years of experience and level of school. The sample consisted of (502) teachers, selected randomly, from public schools within the Green Line in Israel. The tool utilized is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Creative Teaching, Public Schools
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Shi, Lihong – College Student Journal, 2016
With the popularity of learner-oriented approach in language teaching, research on learners is gaining more and more importance. This paper attempts to review the empirical researches on self-efficacy in the ESL/EFL settings during the past 10 years with the purpose of depicting the extent to which the self-efficacy research in ESL/EFL has…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kennedy, Michael J.; Hirsch, Shanna Eisner; Dillon, Sarah E.; Rabideaux, Lindsey; Alves, Kathryn D.; Driver, Melissa K. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
The use of multimedia-driven instruction in college courses is an emerging practice designed to increase students' knowledge. However, limited research has validated the effectiveness of using multimedia to teach students about functional behavioral assessments (FBAs). To test the effectiveness of a multimedia tool called Content Acquisition…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
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