In every music classroom, nonverbal forces--including immediacy, ensemble setups, and teacher use of space--may impact student outcomes. Immediacy refers to a collection of nonverbal behaviors that communicate psychological closeness. The purpose of this survey study was to examine secondary choir teachers' (N = 137) self-reported immediacy…

Unleash the transformative power of storytelling to build belonging, ignite critical consciousness, and amplify students' voices. This dynamic book equips educators who work with middle and high school aged youth to teach storytelling in their classrooms or community organizations. Through inspiring examples and hands-on teaching strategies, the…

Learning management systems (LMS) are essential components of courses, yet student engagement on these platforms remains a significant challenge. Traditionally, grades have been used to incentivize student engagement, but this approach comes with drawbacks. In this paper, we explored an alternative form of incentivization, gamification, that has…

Background: Instructors' facial expressions in instructional videos can greatly influence how learners perceive their emotions, thereby affecting students' attention to the learning content and their overall performance. While the short-term effects of instructors' specific facial expressions in instructional videos have been well documented, less…

Purpose: This study addresses the lack of a short Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) form tailored to Saudi Arabic, specifically designed based on local norms, for assessing early communicative skills in toddlers. The JISH Arabic CDI: Words and Sentences Short-Form (JACDI: WS-SF) is introduced to meet this need. This tool is particularly…

Introduction: Prioritisation is an important and necessary practice in speech and language therapy (SLT) departments, as the increasing demand for services often exceeds available resources. Despite being a key clinical activity within the profession, however, there is limited research on evidence-based methods for prioritisation systems (PS) used…

Learning engagement is a key indicator of online learning. Given that interpretable learning engagement analysis method with multimodal data is to be explored, a multimodal data supported learning engagement analysis method was proposed and validated in this study. Specifically, 179 students' behavioral, posting, and facial expression data during…

This cross-sectional study examines the sociopragmatic use of pitch and fluency features in requests among second language (L2) Chinese learners at two proficiency levels alongside native Chinese speakers. Twenty-eight L2 learners completed a 40-item oral discourse task with two types of request-making situations: (a) a high-imposition request to…

Introduction: Running speech sampling is an essential component of a paediatric voice evaluation, in that it should provide the examiner with a representative vocal sample of the child's everyday voice use outside of the clinic setting. Current speech sampling practices, consisting of reading tasks, informal conversation sampling and the voice…

Background: The COVID pandemic exposed limitations in online learning platforms. This study explores Real-time Shared Gaze Visualizations (SGVs), which use eye-tracking data to restore non-verbal social cues and improve teacher-learner communication. We aim to: (1) identify gaze patterns linked to learning, (2) compare these patterns across visual…

As U.S. politics has been and continues to be dominated by white men, girls and children of color begin to disengage from politics beginning at young ages, leading to their voices being less present in the political system in adulthood. This article suggests several fruitful avenues for K-5 classroom activities designed to expand students'…

This online project was created to orient multilingual international students into the new academic context of a major Canadian university by offering them a set of asynchronous interactive self-paced modules. We drew on an academic discourse socialization framework to identify and scaffold areas in need of further development in students'…

This article explores the nexus among research methodology, classroom data and instructional policy enactment through content analysis of lesson transcripts. It is a multiple-case research of four Zimbabwean secondary school geography teachers' classroom practices. Coded lesson-transcripts and post-lesson teacher-interview transcripts subjected to…

This study aims to reveal the extent of the negative effects of technology use in children and adolescents, such as cyberbullying, problematic internet use, and difficulties with emotional regulation. It also seeks to determine whether these issues show significant differences based on gender and to test whether emotional regulation difficulties…

This mixed-methods study investigated 247 senior Turkish preservice teachers' (PTs) generic competency profiles by conducting a latent profile analysis (LPA), which allows researchers to explore individuals within subpopulations in a holistic way. By using the generic teacher competency framework (GTCF) as data collection tool, the LPA analysis…