Background. This article describes the redesign, implementation, and students' experiences with an elementary mathematics teaching methods course in the Pacific Northwest of the United States that was forced online due to COVID-19 restrictions. We share course design principles, changes to reflect online teaching, and students' experiences of…

The preliminary study examined teacher and students' translanguaging practices in a preschool in Sarawak, Malaysia. Analysis of audio-recorded interactions of 15 students with their teachers in two preschool classrooms (1 English, 1 Malay) found 291 instances of teacher talk functions (English, 87; Malay, 204) and 222 instances of student talk…

The current study sought to investigate Turkish pre-service English language (EL) teachers' virtual teaching dispositions (i.e., social, pedagogical, expert/cognitive, and virtual/technical presences) and the extent they are related to gender, age, and teaching status variables. The participants were 84 pre-service EL teachers drawn from a Turkish…

With Ghana's domestic economy revolving around service and agriculture, business education has over the years remained the second-largest demand among young adults. Despite the education policy reforms since the pre-colonial era to date, many university graduates in Ghana complete school with uneven quality. Consequently, low-performing students…

Find the answers to all your autism-related questions in "The General Education Teacher's Guide to Autism: Essential Answers to Key Questions." From this informative, dynamic resource, you will collect practical strategies to address the common challenges facing these neurodiverse students in an inclusive environment, while also learning…

With the aim of addressing an immediate (and uncertain) future regarding, the COVID-19 sanitary crisis, a group of professors from the three design degrees (architecture, graphic design and industrial design) offered at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (MAU), decided to share experiences and reflections about the actions necessary to ensure…

Financial aid policies are widely used to foster access to higher education for low-income and underrepresented students. Prior research has documented the positive impacts of these programs on the outcomes of the students it intents to help (e.g., Mello, 2021; Londono-Velez et al., 2020; Bleemer, 2021a; Black, Denning, & Rothstein, 2020).…

This present study closely examines a particular type of institutionalized interactions for second language (L2) learning, namely one-on-one instructional sessions between instructors and learners of Japanese at an intensive summer study abroad program in Japan. During these sessions, both instructors and learners employ various form-focused…

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between the quality of classroom interactions in kindergarten and executive functions (EFs) among 5-year-old children. The sample consisted of 118 children, with a mean age of 73.34 months (SD = 4.22), from 12 kindergarten classes. The quality of classroom interactions was measured using the…

This paper aims to analyse the instructional syntax for an on line learning environment in English language learning. The data collection used lesson plans in a Spain-based English Academy. The research method used Hemphill's engagement criteria to find the syntax characteristic in the lesson plans instructions. Also, the study analysed the…

This secondary analysis examined the impact of respondent-level factors on scores on the "Supports Intensity Scale--Children's Version" (SIS-C) for children and youth with intellectual disability to determine if there were any significant differences in the SIS-C scores by different respondent pairs when considering children's age,…

The purpose of this study was to determine how the primary school students spent their time with the parents and how their families spent their time with children and try to give the study group the value of giving importance to family unity through various activities. The study was carried out as an action research. The participants of the…

By testing a model for analysing identity in interaction, the present article explores how a history student teacher produces social identity in relation to his future profession as a teacher, with an important point of departure being the relationship between the academic and professional aspects of teacher education. This is addressed through an…

Both genes and the environment are important for individual differences in expertise, but little is known about gene-environment interactions underlying domain-specific achievement. Here we explored this issue in a large Swedish twin cohort (N = 6,610), using moderator modeling with musical expertise as a model domain. Specifically, we tested…

We examined the perception of an ambiguous squares stimulus evoking bistable perception in a sample of 31 individuals with autistic spectrum condition and 22 matched typical adults. The perception of the ambiguous figure was manipulated by adaptation to unambiguous figures and/or by placing the ambiguous figure into a context of unambiguous…