ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Peer Observation and Feedback on Technical Seminar Presentations: A Constructive Model
Author: Vani, V. Vijaya
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Feedback (Response),Peer Groups,Seminars,Communication Skills,Participant Satisfaction,Classroom Observation Techniques,Observational Learning,Protocol Analysis,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Teaching Methods,College Students,Foreign Countries

The present paper attempts to showcase the need and importance of peer observation and feedback in developing technical seminar presentation skills of the students at tertiary level. The paper endeavors to know whether a structured format will help students to know what they have to observe in the seminar presentations to give constructive feedback. Further, the study examines whether peer feedback ensures more involvement of target group in teaching/learning process or not.
Second/Foreign Language Lexical Competence: Its Dimensions and Ways of Measuring It
Author: Choudhury, Anindya Syam
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Language Usage,Case Studies,Vocabulary Development,Linguistic Competence,Language Research,Language Tests,Communicative Competence (Languages),Universities,Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Dictionaries

Although it is a core component of a language user's overall linguistic competence, vocabulary has traditionally not received the kind of attention it deserved, being usually lumped with other kinds of competence till 1980s and 1990s when researchers started focusing on it with great interest. The present paper discusses what the notion of lexical competence entails, and also attempts to look at how vocabulary researchers have conceptualized its dimensions, especially the breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge. The paper also discusses the different ways in which these dimensions of lexical competence can possibly be measured, drawing data from an ongoing cross-sectional study on lexical competence in Assam University.
Acquisition of English as a Second Language at College Level--An Empirical Study
Author: Anil, Beena
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),College Second Language Programs,Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,College Students,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis,Females,Student Characteristics,Cognitive Processes,Metacognition,Formal Operations,Language Usage

English has a universal appeal and in India, English is associated with modernity and progress sometimes with the ideology of its cultural values. The economic value of English is very high in India as even a layman uses English words in his/her &quot;native&quot; communication. The second language acquisition happens for learners at various domains like home, education, religion, society domains. It is noticed that even English illiterates give importance to English and want their children to learn English for their &quot;bright&quot; future. Presently, many families use English as first language in home domain. Second language acquisition and learning is gaining momentum in all the educational institutions. More than a language, English is considered as a tool and a passport to settle in a good job. In academic settings, teachers should motivate students to learn, engage their attention, present an intellectual and linguistic challenge and allow them to develop language as effectively as possible.
Pleasure Reading Cures Readicide and Facilitates Academic Reading
Author: Jennifer, J. Mary
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Recreational Reading,Reading Interests,Reading Habits,Barriers,Reading Improvement,Reading Strategies,Lifelong Learning,Content Area Reading

Pleasure reading is an absolute choice to eradicate readicide, a systematic killing of the love for reading. This paper encompasses the different forms and consequences of readicide which will have negative impact not only on comprehension but also on the prior knowledge of a reader. Reading to score well on tests impedes the desire for reading but in fact it causes the fear of failure, and anxiety towards reading. In order to eradicate readicide, pleasure reading is suggested as a powerful tool because it has the potential to instill love for books by providing pleasant input. Interestingly, pleasure reading promotes both practical and linguistic knowledge and, in fact, it helps readers score high on tests and upholds a lifelong reading habit that will enable them to become literate and well-informed adults.
Language Learning by Dint of Social Cognitive Advancement
Author: Mathew, Bincy
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Schemata (Cognition),Social Cognition,Linguistic Competence,Comparative Analysis,Theory of Mind,Language Research,Psycholinguistics,Sociolinguistics,Syntax,Semantics,Language Acquisition

Language is of vital importance to human beings. It is a means of communication and it has specific cognitive links. Advanced social cognition is necessary for children to acquire language, and sophisticated mind-reading abilities to assume word meanings and communicate pragmatically. Language can be defined as a bi-directional system that permits the expression of arbitrary thoughts as signals and the reverse interpretation of those signals as thoughts. Although language appears as a seamless whole, with phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatic processes working together, many dissociable mechanisms underlie linguistic competence. Language allows forms of social understanding that would otherwise be impossible. Both language and social cognition are complex constructs, involving many independent cognitive mechanisms, and the comparative approach provides a powerful route to understanding the evolution of such mechanisms. Social Cognition (SC) encompasses a number of distinctive capacities, including social learning, imitation, gaze following, and Theory of Mind (ToM). Social cognition involves a set of interacting but separable mechanisms, and the language has led to an extensive dissection of social cognition and a correspondingly daunting profusion of terms. The most important way in which social cognitive linguistics differs from other approaches, is that language is assumed to reflect certain primary sources and design features of the human mind.
Students&apos; Attitudes towards the Use of Poetry in Second Language Classrooms
Author: Ardeshir, Danesh
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Poetry,Second Language Instruction,Engineering Education,Questionnaires,Language Proficiency,English (Second Language),Reading Fluency,Reading Ability,Reading Attitudes,Indo European Languages,Teaching Methods,Classroom Techniques,Foreign Countries,College Students

This study investigates learners' attitudes towards poetry in foreign language learning. 63 Engineering Students at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch attended the study. The instrument used in the study was a questionnaire designed by the researchers for the purpose of this study. The questionnaire consisted of 12 questions regarding the subjects' attitudes towards poetry. The analysis of the data revealed that while the students are mostly interested in Persian poetry, only about one third are interested in English poetry. Therefore, their lack of interest in English poetry can be due to their problem in reading English poetry which has been confirmed by the analysis of their answers to a related item on the questionnaire. Based on the results of the study, the subjects do not strongly relate their inability in understanding English poetry to any of the reasons referred to in the questionnaire, i.e. containing a lot of new words, being based on a different culture, and not understanding Persian poetry. Despite their lack of interest and understanding in English poetry, a considerable percent of the students believe that English poetry helps the development of various aspects of the foreign language.
Research Methodology: A Practitioner Approach
Author: Singh, Sukhpal
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Methodology,Scientific Research,Research Reports,Writing for Publication,Writing Strategies,Guidelines,Literary Styles,Scholarship,College Science

The ultimate goal of scientific research is publication so as to showcase the research outcomes. Scientists, starting as graduate students, are measured primarily not by their dexterity in laboratory manipulations, not by their innate knowledge of either broad or narrow scientific subjects, and certainly not by their wit or charm; they are measured, and become known by their publications. A scientific experiment, no matter how spectacular the results, is not completed until the results are published. In fact, the cornerstone of the philosophy of science is based on the fundamental assumption that original research must be published; only thus can new scientific knowledge be authenticated and then added to the existing databases. In this paper, a practitioners approach to write an effective paper is presented in a chronological order. Further, writing style of effective research paper, a review technique to conduct a methodical survey in a systematic manner and finally an effective research plan for forthcoming research scholars is discussed. This research work provides an effective direction to write, submit and publish the effort put into doing research into a published form.
The Effects of Explicit and Implicit Pragmatic Instruction on the Development of Compliments and Compliment Responses
Author: Ebadi, Saman
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Pragmatics,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Teaching Methods,Speech Acts,Pretests Posttests,Control Groups,Learning Processes,Instructional Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Questionnaires

This study explored the effects of explicit and implicit instructions in the development of EFL learners' speech acts of complimenting (Cs) and complimenting response (CRs). The participants in this research were 56 intermediate EFL learners from a language center, participating as members of intact classes that were divided into three groups of control, explicit instruction, and implicit instruction. They were asked to answer an open-ended Discourse Completion Test (DCT) to collect the primary data in the pre-test and post-test sessions. The items in the DCT included 12 situations based on which the participants were required to give or respond to compliments to evaluate their knowledge of Cs and CRs. Then their responses were collected, tabulated, and analyzed. The treatment including explicit and implicit instructions on pragmatic competence lasted for three weeks after which all groups were given the DCT in post-test to measure their pragmatic competence. The results of the study highlighted the effectiveness of both implicit and explicit instructions in developing EFL learners' speech acts of Cs and CRs. It seems that pragmatic instruction regardless of type speeds up the process of learning through consciousness rising and should be considered by language teachers as one of the ways in which EFL learners can most efficiently develop pragmatic competence.
A Study on the Developmental Characteristics of Adverbial Conjuncts by Chinese Non-English Majors
Author: Junmei, Jiang
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Form Classes (Languages),English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Semantics,Computational Linguistics,Nonmajors,Language Usage,Foreign Countries,College Students

Based on the Chinese Learner English Corpus, the present study seeks to investigate the developmental characteristics of the use of adverbial conjuncts. And the results show that at different learning stages Non-English majors use all kinds of adverbial conjuncts, but their occurrence frequencies are quite different, the enumerative adverbials are most frequently used, resultative and deductive adverbials come second, transitional adverbials are least used. Chinese learners, especially high school students rely heavily on a small number of adverbial conjuncts, and the use of adverbials lacks diversity. Secondly, the distribution of different semantic categories is roughly the same in the three corpora. In addition, as students learn English more, the use of adverbial conjuncts presents different developmental trends or characteristics, there is an increasing tendency of summative, appositive, contrastive and corroborative adverbials, but the use of resultative and transitional adverbials increases first and then decreases, and it is quite contrary to the use of enumerative adverbials. There is significant difference in the use of adverbial conjuncts between ST2 and ST3, but no significant difference between ST3 and St4.
Inclusion in a Multicultural Nation: Realities through Case Studies
Author: Balakrishnan, Vishalache
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusion,Multicultural Education,Case Studies,Minority Groups,Racial Discrimination,Racial Bias,Electronic Mail,Transcripts (Written Records),Content Analysis,Social Justice,Social Change,Social History,Profiles,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research

According to Inclusion Press International, inclusion is not just a &quot;disability issue&quot; but about living full lives, about learning to live together and treasuring diversity and building community. When Malaysia obtained her independence from Britain in 1957, one of the main ruling was all three ethnicities (Malay, Chinese, and Indian) should live together as one multicultural nation. No individual should be excluded from any aspects of Education, Economic and Social means. After almost six decades of independence, many individuals in Malaysia are still unhappy with the social injustice due to exclusion based on several factors such as ethnicity and historical roots. In this paper the researcher would like to argue that, the minority ethnic group have been side lined due to constitutional rights and current policies. Using multiple case studies and collecting date through technology such as Facebook, Whats App and e-mail, the researcher used textual analysis to analyse the data collected. Findings show that, the participants have to fend for themselves and the social injustice caused many to leave their country of birth to move to other countries where they are treated equally for what they are and not who they are. The researcher suggests that, there is a critical need for Malaysia to overlook its Political, Economic and Education policies to ensure a new world which is just and fair.
Does Higher-Order Thinking Impinge on Learner-Centric Digital Approach?
Author: Mathew, Bincy
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Thinking Skills,Social Cognition,Computer Uses in Education,Student Centered Learning,Cooperative Learning,Technology Integration,Problem Solving,Creative Thinking,Critical Thinking,Metacognition

Humans are social beings and the social cognition focuses on how one form impressions of other people, interpret the meaning of other people's behaviour and how people's behaviour is affected by our attitudes. The school provides complex social situations and in order to thrive, students must possess social cognition, the process of thinking about how other people are likely to think, act, and react. Impact of technology on learning has not been answered clearly many years after the introduction of ICT into classrooms. Today there are optimist and pessimist views regarding the use of ICT in Education. The main objective of Digital classroom is to enhance interactive learning through teaching pedagogies that provide opportunities for authentic, contextualised assessment that supports learning in a digital context. Digital classroom incorporates contemporary teaching and learning strategies. It provides the basis for engaging students in actively constructing and applying rich learning in purposeful and meaningful ways. The integration of ICT in social cognitive development is a complex and multidimensional process, including many dynamics such as ICT tools, teachers, students, school administration, educational programmes and school culture. While using digital media devices, students of today need active participation and involvement rather than playing a passive role. This means integrating the use of smart phones, tablets, and laptops in on-ground classrooms. They are also looking for the emotional satisfaction of using and interacting with these products. The main purpose of this paper is to make an inquiry on how social cognition impinges on learner-centered digital classroom in an Educational view. It also provides an understanding of how the mind is influenced by social interactions and how to implement technology to enhance social cognitive learning.
ESET: [Eagles Student Evaluation of Teaching]--An Online Andragogical Student Ratings of Instruction Tool That Is an In-Depth Systemic Statistical Mechanism Designed to Inform, Enhance, and Empower Higher Education
Author: Osler, James Edward, II
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Black Colleges,College Students,Test Validity,College Instruction,Test Reliability,Andragogy,Psychometrics,Likert Scales,Student Surveys,Factor Analysis,Mixed Methods Research

This paper seeks to provide an epistemological rationale for the establishment of ESET (an acronym for: &quot;Eagles Student Evaluation of Teaching&quot;) as a novel universal SRI [Student Ratings of Instruction] tool. Colleges and Universities in the United States use Student Ratings of Instruction [SRI] for course evaluation purposes (Osler and Mansaray, 2013a). This research investigation is the third part of a post hoc study that psychometrically examines the reliability and validity of the items used in an Historic Black College and University (HBCU) SRI instrument. The ESET sample under analysis consisted of the responses to 56,451 total items extracted from 7,919 distributed Student Ratings Instruments that were delivered electronically (at HBCU) to students who completed the ESET tool. The ESET methodology provides a statistically valid SRI/SET survey instrument along with a variety of post hoc statistical measures to determine the efficacy of collegiate instruction. This research is also the continuation of research conducted on innovative statistical metrics introduced in the i-manager's &quot;Journal on Mathematics.&quot;
E-Governance in Education: Pursuit of Education Excellence
Author: Natarajan, Sundarapandiyan
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Developing Nations,Governance,Information Technology,Educational Quality,Educational Administration,Educational Assessment,Recordkeeping,Progress Monitoring,Blended Learning,Andragogy,Independent Study,Self Determination,Taxonomy,Outcome Based Education,Values Education

This article aims to explore today's educational challenges, being technologically supreme, the primary focus on education is to bring out the outcome and value based education to the community. Electronic Governance (e- Governance) focuses not only the technological infrastructure and getting the learning environment sync is the major challenge. E-Governance is an application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) used at various levels both the government and private sectors for improving national service enhancement as well as it's development. E-Governance in education is preferred to have a smooth functioning of educational institutions including Universities, colleges and relevant administrative layers in the field. The solutions from Information and Communication Technology eases and gets away with conventional methods of educational administration including assessments, record keeping, students and teaching monitoring systems. However, the education development, student-teacher enhancement towards educational excellence is still a serious concern in developing countries especially in India. Technology savvy may bring advancements but only value driven education along with learner determined education focus could bring human excellence. This needs an awareness and swift for the young conventional thinkers and educationists on driving outcomes through value based education approach and commitment by capitalizing e-infrastructure for social and community building through blended flexible learning strategies.
Efficacy in Teaching through &quot;Multiple Intelligence&quot; Instructional Strategies
Author: Tamilselvi, B.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multiple Intelligences,Educational Strategies,Teaching Methods,Educational Theories,Intellectual History,Individual Characteristics,Educational Practices,Lesson Plans,Learning Activities,Cognitive Psychology,Cognitive Processes,Foreign Countries

Multiple intelligence is the theory that &quot;people are smart in more ways than one has immense implication for educators&quot;. Howard Gardner proposed a new view of intelligence that is rapidly being incorporated in school curricula. In his theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner expanded the concept of intelligence with such areas as music, spatial relations, and interpersonal knowledge in addition to mathematical and linguistic ability. This article discusses on the intelligences, the theories based on intelligences, origin of Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and the incorporation of the theory of Multiple Intelligences into the classroom. To incorporate Multiple intelligence theory in the classroom, there is a need to specialize the process of lesson planning. This paper illustrates the need for special lesson planning, benefits of it to the teachers and learners, integrating various instructional strategies in lesson planning and its effect in the progress of the learners. This article also shows the importance of integrating MI activities in the lesson plans which aid students' learning, providing them with the optimum learning environment through their preferred learning medium and help them to achieve their fullest potential in their respective talented areas.
Effects of Activity Based Blended Learning Strategy on Prospective of Teachers&apos; Achievement and Motivation
Author: Abdelraheem, Ahmed Yousif
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Blended Learning,Teaching Methods,Academic Achievement,Student Motivation,Grade Point Average,Statistical Analysis,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Pretests Posttests,Achievement Tests,Learning Strategies,Foreign Countries,Correlation,Quasiexperimental Design,Educational Technology,Undergraduate Students,Preservice Teacher Education,Instructional Materials

The study investigates the effect of Activity based Blended Learning strategy and Conventional Blended Learning strategy on students' achievement and motivation. Two groups namely, experimental and control group from Sultan Qaboos University were selected randomly for the study. To assess students' achievement in the different groups, pre- and post. achievement tests were used. Three ways 2x2x3 ANCOVA and 2x2x3 ANOVA were used to test for significance. The results of the study (N = 52) show that there was a statistically significant difference between the two methods in terms of students' achievement and motivation favoring the activity based blended learning method (n =26). No significant difference was found due to gender or GPA for both achievement and motivation. In addition the results show no interaction effects for the independent variables. The study concluded with some recommendations.