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Learners' Engagement Online in Peer Help
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Huang, Kun; Law, Victor – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Much is known about help seeking in face-to-face classrooms, but there is a limited understanding about how learners seek and provide help online. This study implemented a peer-help forum in an online technology course, and investigated students' engagement in the forum, their perceptions, and the relationship between peer help and course…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Help Seeking, Online Courses, Technology Education
The Effect of Communication Strategy Training on the Development of EFL Learners' Strategic Competence and Oral Communicative Ability
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Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This study examines the effect of communication strategy instruction on EFL students' oral communicative ability and their strategic competence. In a 14-week English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course (English Use II) based on Communicative Language Teaching approach, 80 learners were divided into two groups. The strategy training group (n = 44)…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
The Effect of Counselling-Based Training on Online Peer Support
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Lekka, Foteini; Efstathiou, Giorgos; Kalantzi-Azizi, Anastasia – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The aim of the current study is to investigate the impact of counselling-based training on online peer support by comparing the interventions of trained peer supporters as opposed to non-trained peer supporters. Two independent raters analysed 746 support posts published during a period of one year at the "Student to Student" online peer…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Peer Relationship, Intervention, Counseling Services
Single Session Web-Based Counselling: A Thematic Analysis of Content from the Perspective of the Client
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Rodda, S. N.; Lubman, D. I.; Cheetham, A.; Dowling, N. A.; Jackson, A. C. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
Despite the exponential growth of non-appointment-based web counselling, there is limited information on what happens in a single session intervention. This exploratory study, involving a thematic analysis of 85 counselling transcripts of people seeking help for problem gambling, aimed to describe the presentation and content of online…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques, Intervention
Whose Expertise?: An Analysis of Advice Giving in Early Childhood Parent-Teacher Conferences
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Cheatham, Gregory A.; Ostrosky, Michaelene M. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
Early childhood and early childhood special education programs have a focus on parent-educator partnerships. Parent-teacher conferences are a context for these partnerships, and advice giving is one type of exchange occurring within conferences. Parent-teacher conference advice was investigated through participant interviews and the methodology of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Parent Teacher Conferences, Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education
An Analysis of Students' Spontaneous Computer-Mediated Help Seeking: A Step toward the Design of Ecologically Valid Supporting Tools
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Minna Puustinen; Olga Volckaert-Legrier; Daniele Coquin; Josie Bernicot – Computers & Education, 2009
This study analyzes middle school students' spontaneous mathematics-related help-seeking behavior, in view of making ecologically valid recommendations for the design of supporting tools or "help systems". Our aim was to investigate the content of students' help-seeking messages--Are there different forms of help-seeking messages and do…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Help Seeking, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style