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Zhang, Yuan – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This paper investigates optimal practices for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, situated within the context of adult learning theories, with a specific focus on adopting Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective. The examination delves into the theory of genre and its role in constructing meaning within cultural and social contexts, exploring its…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, Teaching Methods
Albornoz Muñoz, Natalia; Sebastián Balmaceda, Christian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Historical thinking is a construct approached by different disciplines with a recent proliferation in research interest compared to thinking in other domains. Leading exponents do not agree on its definition and include the two main traditions: Anglo-American and German, and various groups or research centres throughout the Western world.…
Descriptors: Ethics, History, Thinking Skills, Western Civilization
Nazari, Mostafa; Xodabande, Ismail – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Mobile phones are turning into a growingly widespread educational tool across various contexts. However, the scope of research on teachers' role in mobile-oriented instruction is limited, much less examining how professional development influences their associated beliefs and practices. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study aimed to fill…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Fejes, Andreas; Dahlstedt, Magnus – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
In this article, we direct our focus on some of the recent activities undertaken by popular education institutions in Sweden in relation to the refugee challenge in 2015. The aim is to analyse how these popular education activities are shaped as specific communities of practice, through the ways they are described by those who organised these, and…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Foreign Countries, Refugees, Student Attitudes
Katagiri, Nozomu Wong – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
The study explores the unaddressed washback on the English-speaking test of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE-English Language Paper 4). The HKDSE is a university entrance exam in Hong Kong which includes a group discussion speaking test known as English Language Paper 4. To identify ongoing washback effects,…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Testing Problems
Taukeni, Simon George, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2023
This book is a collection of chapters addressing numerous features of motivation and success. It includes five chapters divided into two sections: "The Lens of Motivation" and "The Lens of Success". The book demonstrates how motivation can breed success with chapters on entrepreneurship, innovation, socio-culturalism and more.
Descriptors: Motivation, Success, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Liera, Román; Rodgers, Aireale J.; Irwin, Lauren N.; Posselt, Julie R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
There is growing awareness that established structures of higher education are often predicated on problematic assumptions about merit, excellence, and rigor. Doctoral qualifying exams, for example, are required to advance to candidacy in many Ph.D. programs despite decades of documented concerns about the implications of standard modes for…
Descriptors: Physics, Doctoral Programs, Case Studies, Physical Sciences
Revathy B. R. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
This paper explores the adoption of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in primary classrooms, emphasizing that language acquisition is best achieved through meaningful communication rather than rote memorization. Drawing on Krashen's Input Hypothesis and Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory, the study highlights the importance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Tandamrong, Aunyarat; Parr, Graham – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
In 1999, the western concept of 'Learner-Centred Education' (LCE) was nationally mandated for schools and universities across Thailand. Most early research into this mandate portrayed Thai teachers in deficit terms, suggesting they were unwilling or unable to implement government policy. Such studies often underappreciated the range of cultural,…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Marianna Levrints Lorincz – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
The present study explored the dominant discourses of language teaching challenges by utilizing methods associated with corpus linguistics and probed for the validity of the applied methodological design. The gleanings were obtained based on a specialized corpus (638,312 tokens) of journal articles pertinent to the designated topic sourced from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Aubrey Scheopner Torres; Lisa Andries D'Souza – Current Issues in Education, 2024
This qualitative study aims to provide insight into why teacher candidates, interested in pursuing K-12 teaching, made the decision to leave their traditional teacher preparation programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers utilized sociocultural theory as the framework to ground the research. The study finds the educational disruption…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Aaron Cavazos; Jacob Pleasants – Social Education, 2024
According to the authors, we live in a society that is deeply influenced by technology, and social studies classrooms are ideal places for students to conduct inquiries into timely and relevant technological issues. In this article, the authors describe an approach that can be used across many situations to teach students to think critically about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Technological Literacy, Current Events, Prior Learning
Da Yan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
The aim of the study was to examine the effects of rubric co-creation on peer feedback. From a social constructivist perspective, rubric co-creation might have the ability to promote the quality of feedback messages, interactivities within feedback processes, and uptake of feedback information in a peer-based collaborative setting of higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Peer Evaluation, Peer Relationship
Rasela Tufue; Floraleta Losi – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
Composite classes (also known as multigrades) are beneficial in several ways but have challenges for teaching and learning. This study aimed to explore participants' views concerning their experiences in teaching and learning within a composite classroom setting in Samoa. Specifically, the study sought to determine composite classes' impacts on…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Multigraded Classes, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
Karim Shabani; Iman Bakhoda – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The introduction of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory (SCT) into the second language (L2) domain provides a potential site to explore the mechanisms underlying L2 learners' cognitive modification and the transformation of social understanding into the personal one. This study provided a picture of L2 personalization in two groups of advanced and…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction