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THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL CULTURE AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY AND LIVELIHOOD EDUCATION
Authors: Lagrimas Eva Lyn M. , Buenaventura Viola P. 
Published: January 2023

The aim of this study was to determine the mediating effect of a constructivist learning environment on the relationship between school culture and student engagement in technology and livelihood education in Davao del Sur, Philippines. To determine the mediating effect of constructivist learning, correlation design employing mediating analysis was employed in this study. Adapted survey questionnaires were utilized for a sample of 400 students from public schools in Matanao, Bansalan, Magsaysay (MABAMA) District, Davao del Sur. The questionnaires were validated by experts contextualizing to the local setting. Regression and Path Analysis were used to determine the mediating effect of a constructivist learning environment on the relationship between school culture and student engagement of students in TLE. The results showed that the level of constructivist learning environment is high, the level of school culture is high, the level of student engagement is very high, and there were significant relationships between constructivist learning environment and school culture and student engagement. The significant effect showed partial mediation. Thus, the TLE students’ constructivist learning environment partially mediates the relationship between school culture and student engagement.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0215/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
L'INTRODUCTION AUX SCIENCES DANS L'ÉCOLE MATERNELLE ET LE PREMIER NIVEAU DU PRIMAIRE / INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE IN KINDERGARTEN AND EARLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Authors: Tin Phan Sung 
Published: January 2023

<p>Cet article présente et examine un certain nombre de possibilités, de problèmes et de perspectives de recherche concernant l'initiation des élèves de l'école maternelle et du début de l'école primaire aux sciences physiques et aux sciences de la vie et de la terre. Il aborde également les questions liées à la formation des enseignants et à la création de matériel pédagogique pour les enfants de ces âges. Cette synthèse met fortement l'accent sur la recherche pertinente et l'utilisation de cette recherche dans les pratiques d'enseignement.</p><p>This article presents and discusses a number of research opportunities, problems, and perspectives regarding the introduction of kindergarten and early elementary school students to physical and life sciences. It also addresses issues related to teacher training and the creation of educational materials for children of these ages. This synthesis places a strong emphasis on relevant research and the use of that research in teaching practices.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0333/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
RECREATING COMMUNITY RELATIONS PROGRAM (COMREL) TOWARDS RESILIENCY UNDER “BAYANIHAN TO HEAL AS ONE”, AND BEYOND
Authors: Martinez, Jr. Atty. Irineo F. , Llonora Rex , Mallillin Leovigildo Lito D. 
Published: January 2023

The article promotes recreating Community Relations Program (COMREL) towards Resiliency under “Bayanihan to Heal as One, and Beyond” which focuses on the improved project in the communities, barangays, and private sectors in the implementation of RA 11469 to become a key player in the fight against CONVI 19 and beyond. On the other hand, it encourages individuals to participates in the change process of recreating COMREL in cascading technology community system through corporate managers must undergo conscientization workshops by sharing models of COMREL in communities with cross-cultural backgrounds, community leaders must be called to a meeting with corporate managers and define areas where they can work together, what the managers can do and what they cannot do for the communities, communities and the corporate managers must work together to set and pursue specific targets through creative solutions, develops machinery and processes that decrease costs of recreating COMREL, striking covenants defining roles, solutions providers who manage COMREL recreated “supply chains”, Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (computerization) to speed up interconnectivity among communities, defining innovative socio-political and economic support mechanisms involving the multi-disciplinary groups, establishing a team of independent consultants to monitor and evaluate impact of the recreated COMREL systems, government support for recreated COMREL towards institutionalization of “Bayanihan to Heal as One” notably establishment of structures intended to replicate steps.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0444/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
NEEDS ANALYSIS: HOTEL RECEPTIONISTS’ USE OF ENGLISH
Authors: Pham Chi Kim 
Published: January 2023

Needs analysis is critical in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) development of teaching and learning because it decides learners' goals, needs, or deficiencies in the environmental situation. Learners are often taught and led in educational practices by textbooks authored by native speakers Ministry of Education and Training (MOET, 2008). However, Vietnam received a record of over 18 million of international arrivals in 2019 arrivals (VNAT, 2022). An analysis must evaluate real-life conditions to find difficulties met when working as a hotel receptionist. This research looks at the lives of eighteen hotel receptionists in Can Tho, Vietnam. A quantitative approach is used in this research to find out in what ways hotel receptionists use their positions and the obstacles they experience on the job. The study results show that hotel receptionists employ four skills, but speaking and listening are significantly more critical in this sector. Furthermore, hotel receptionists need help with these abilities when speaking with non-native visitors. The findings imply that, besides textbook resources, educators and curriculum designers could include distinct accents from non-native English speakers into a curriculum for ESP learners. Practical markets, particularly in Asia, now have implications for real-world tourism development practices.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0225/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
CHILDREN’S CONCEPTUALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD IN RELATION TO PLAY ACTIVITIES
Authors: Fakidou Anastasia , Magos Kostas 
Published: January 2023

Children’s play articulates the social ideologies and discourses of childhood and play. This study combined espousals from childhood studies, and play theories to analyze children’s conceptualization of childhood play, and trace social influences of their conceptions. The research consisting of 112 fifth-grade students who live in an urban environment indicated that their conceptualization of childhood referred to many types of play. In contrast to the discourse of the competent child, they almost exclusively appropriated the romantic discourse of the innocent child who plays outdoors with other children or alone, unsupervised by adults, far from institutionalized learning, intellectual games, urban activities, and new technology toys. Their conceptualizations reflected gender stereotypes of play and the influence of a competitive social structure.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0476/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
LEARNING IDIOMS FOR ENGLISH MAJORS: VIETNAMESE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF DIFFICULTIES AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
Authors: Nguyen Phuong-Bao-Tran , Phan Nhu Hao , Le Tuong Vy , Tran Le Huyen Tran , Pham Thi Thu Thao 
Published: January 2023

Learning idioms play an influential role in language generally and in English notably. Comprehending idioms assists language learners in integrating culture, enhancing skills, and ameliorating English levels. Numerous studies have analyzed the function of idioms in second language acquisition (Cieślicka, 2015). This study investigates the difficulties and strategies used in learning idioms by English-majored students at a regional public university (PU) in the south of Vietnam. This paper furnishes data showing learners’ perceptions of facing complications and learning methods. The samples consisted of 150 undergraduate EFL students from English-medium instruction programs. The data was analyzed by utilizing descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings reveal that students struggle to understand idiomatic terms without specific, understandable contexts. Furthermore, the results indicate that the most frequently employed strategies are guessing the meaning of idioms, learning idioms through keywords, and learning from a range of sources, particularly via media. The findings also mentioned that low-proficiency and high-proficiency students encounter identical challenges, with no significant differences. The study's results revealed that the majority of students have difficulty acquiring, recognizing, and interpreting idioms. The findings indicated that guessing the implication of idioms is the most used strategy.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0587/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
TESTING DESIGNER METHODS RELEVANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHING IN MOROCCAN SECONDARY EDUCATION
Authors: Sidi Hida Moulay Abderrahman 
Published: January 2023

The current study investigates the relevance and viability of five teaching methods in the 21st-century teaching context. They are usually referred to as ‘Designer Methods’, and those are Suggestopedia, The Silent Way, Community Language Learning, Total Physical Response, and The Natural Approach. These methods are relics from the recent past that witnessed the proliferation of different teaching approaches and methods. They have left a plethora of practices that promised, according to advocators, impressive results. The goal here is not to resurrect them but to show that maybe they have never been put to rest. The current study is therefore intended to find out whether these practices are still in use in English language classrooms and, once confirmed, to measure the frequency of their use. After conducting a survey questionnaire that targeted high school teachers of English language in the city of Marrakesh in Morocco, the relevance and viability of these methods through their inherent practices, based on the collected data, proved undeniable. The study has shown that teachers still use some teaching techniques that originate from these five methods.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0452/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
AN INVESTIGATION INTO EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ RESEARCH COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, HUE UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM
Authors: My Vo Thi Tieu , Vien Truong 
Published: January 2023

This study aimed at exploring EFL students’ attitudes towards doing research at the undergraduate level, the perceived practice of research competence and the factors facilitating the development of research competence. The population of the study was EFL undergraduate students studying at University of Foreign Languages and International Studies, Hue University. The sample of the study comprised 120 second-year, third-year and fourth-year students majoring in English Language Teaching and English Language Studies. The data was collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The results show that EFL students thought that doing research is important to their future career path, but they were not confident to do their own research. In terms of EFL students’ perceived practice of research competence, thinking of a research topic and writing theoretical background posed challenges for EFL students, while using PowerPoint to present their research was the activity, they felt most confident to do. The participants did not show entire support for the role of the library and the faculty in facilitating the research competence development at a high level. These findings imply that the library and the faculty should provide more various databases for students as well as opportunities to be familiar with doing research.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0222/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHING PRACTICES ON QUALITY ASSURANCE MECHANISMS IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN UGANDA
Authors: Ajuaba David Baiko , Ssentamu Proscovia Namubiru , Cutright Marc 
Published: January 2023

The effort to enhance formal quality assurance mechanisms in the Ugandan universities started with the creation of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) in 2003. Teaching practices are critical in the maintenance of quality assurance mechanisms in university education. The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of teaching practices on quality assurance mechanisms in selected universities in Uganda. The specific areas of interest were content delivered, methods of delivery and the adequacy of infrastructure for quality teaching. The study is based on systems theory where the inputs in a university to improve quality assurance mechanisms are the faculty and infrastructure used to implement the curricula in order to produce graduates. The study is based on the pragmatic paradigm with a cross-sectional survey design. A disproportionate stratified random sampling technique was employed to sample 300 faculty and students who expressed their opinions on questionnaires. With convenience sampling 47 students participated in focus group discussions and 20 managers were purposefully sampled for individual interviews. Frequencies, percentages and chi-square were used to analyze the quantitative data and corroborated with qualitative data. The findings revealed a positive contribution of teaching practices to quality assurance mechanisms. The study concluded that there is a moderate influence of teaching practices on quality assurance mechanisms. Therefore, the study recommends that the universities should adopt modern practices of teaching that involve the use of ICT accompanied with training and adequate provision of infrastructure.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0814/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
EVALUATION OF THE SEATING ARRANGEMENTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS THROUGH MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
Authors: Salma Ceren , Şahin Abdurrahman 
Published: January 2023

Seating arrangement in classrooms plays a crucial role for the effectiveness of curriculum implementation. This multi-case pattern intertwined case study aimed to investigate the ongoing seating arrangements in language classrooms of middle schools with a focus on stakeholders (students, teachers, principals and janitors) perspectives. Two types of data were collected in this process. The data for the physical appearances of classrooms were collected through observation form and analyzed via descriptive analysis technique. The interview data gathered through semi-structured interview forms were analyzed through the content analysis technique. Findings revealed that language branch classrooms were not available and that classrooms had classic-row layout with cumbersome desks and deficient free space. Some curricular objectives and communicative activities were at odds with the ongoing seating arrangement, and therefore, skipped by teachers. Cluster and horseshoe layouts, cherished by students, were practiced to align the layout with the curricular objectives, though some reactions emerged.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0749/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
SAUDI PARENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE INFLUENCE OF ACCULTURATION ON THEIR CHILDREARING BELIEFS
Authors: Kherais Walaa A. 
Published: January 2023

There are a considerable number of Saudi Arabian students who attend U.S. schools. To date, no published studies exist that relate to Saudi Arabian students, their families, and how they acculturate to American society. Acculturation affects parents and children in different ways, and it can affect the way parents raise their children. Using semi-structured interviews, this study examined Saudi mothers’ perspectives on acculturation to American society and how those perspectives affect their childrearing beliefs s. The descriptive qualitative study acknowledges mothers’ perceptions about the adaptation of Saudi children to American society. The results showed there are some changes that occurred regarding parental beliefs of parents due to acculturation.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0301/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
THE RESEARCH OF FACTORS AFFECTING PUBLIC SPEAKING SKILLS OF HIGH-QUALITY ENGLISH STUDIED STUDENT AT CAN THO UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM
Authors: Chau Cham , Thanh Vy , Kim Ngan , Duy Khanh , Nghia Huu , Nhan Do Thanh 
Published: January 2023

The purpose of the study is to find out the factors affecting the public speaking skills of 45th cohort students majoring in high-quality English and make recommendations to improve and enhance the public speaking ability of EFL students from High-quality English Studies Program. The study participants included 86 high-quality English language third-year students. We used questionnaires to collect data and used SPSS statistical software to analyze data by descriptive statistical method. Research results show that students' ability to speak in public is affected by their lack of confidence in speaking. At the same time, the factors of the study program and the school environment also affect the students' public speaking skills. Based on the research results, the paper makes some pedagogical recommendations.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0569/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
THE WORLD BANK’S KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY POLICY OBJECTIVES IN CAMEROON’S PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES 1993-2016: CASE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUEA
Authors: Yong Terence Yuh 
Published: January 2023

In conjunction with the neoliberal prescriptions of the Berg Report of 1981, most African countries adopted the World Bank’s knowledge economic policy as a defining tool for university’s contribution to economic development amid a wide range of challenges. Through the lens of the international regime theory and non-positivist theoretical approach, this study uses a case study design and qualitative research paradigm to investigate how Cameroon’s public universities responded to the knowledge economy objective and how it affected their processes between 1993 and 2016. Using semi-structured interviews to collect primary data from academics, top management, and administrative support staff at the University of Buea, including documents and secondary data sources, results indicate that overall, reduced, and irregular public expenditure has weakened the ability of Cameroon’s public universities to create, valorise, disseminate, and apply knowledge to enhance economic development. Particularly, the policy has induced a complex-type relationship between the higher education governing structure and public universities, giving rise to new and confusing dimensions in the character of public universities in Cameroon. Hence, the study concludes that international education policy strategies could be a potential source of diversion and confusion in the national education systems of receiving countries.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0269/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
CODE SWITCHING IN TEACHING ELEMENTARY ENGLISH
Authors: Geagonia Jennilyn D. 
Published: January 2023

Language is one essential factor that affects the effectiveness of communication. When it becomes a barrier to communication, it causes misunderstandings and misinterpretations, especially for students. This study assessed code-switching in grade six English in a public elementary school to help the group of students as a foundation to propose an instructional plan. The study made use of descriptive and quasi-experimental methods. Random sampling was employed, observing the specific guidelines in the data gathering procedure. Results revealed that after utilizing the code-switching method, elementary students improved their performance, determined through the gained scores in English and the essential communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Wherein students had improved from satisfactory to outstanding performance in listening, from did not meet the expectation to fairly satisfactory performance in speaking, from satisfactory to very satisfactory performance in reading, and while their performance remained as did not meet expectation in writing. This showed that code-switching was indeed very effective. However, there are still identified weaknesses, specifically in writing skills, by which students’ performance did not meet expectations even after the code-switching method had been utilized.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0225/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>