ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Multivariate Effects of Level of Education, Computer Ownership, and Computer Use on Female Students' Attitudes towards CALL
Author: Rahimi, Mehrak
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Females,Student Attitudes,Computer Assisted Instruction,Educational Technology,Second Language Instruction,Questionnaires,Junior High School Students,High School Students,College Students,Attitude Measures,Instructional Effectiveness,Teacher Influence,Ownership,Statistical Analysis,Access to Computers,English (Second Language),Multivariate Analysis

The aim of this study was investigating Iranian female students' attitude towards CALL and its relationship with their level of education, computer ownership, and frequency of use. One hundred and forty-two female students (50 junior high-school students, 49 high-school students and 43 university students) participated in this study. They filled in A-CALL questionnaire that assessed their attitudes towards CALL with respect to four factors: effectiveness of CALL vs. non-CALL, surplus value of CALL, teacher influence, and degree of exhibition to CALL. The findings revealed that the sample had a general positive attitude towards CALL while they showed the highest positive attitudes towards teacher influence and the lowest positive attitudes towards effectiveness of CALL vs. non-CALL. Students' attitude toward CALL across level of education was found to be significantly different just in degree of exhibition to CALL; while university students had the highest level of positive attitudes in this regard. Further, computer ownership could make a difference in students' attitude towards teacher influence. No statistically significant difference was found between the attitudes of those students who used computer more frequently and those students who did not use it quite often.
Ordeals of Physics Instruction in Nigerian Secondary Schools: Way Forward for the Attainment of Global Competitiveness
Author: Aderonmu, Temitope S. B.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Instruction,Secondary School Science,Physics,Global Approach,Competition,Surveys,Science Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Questionnaires,Check Lists,Correlation,Teacher Qualifications,Laboratory Equipment,Educational Resources,Rural Schools,Urban Schools,Lecture Method,Problem Solving,Teaching Methods,Technology Uses in Education,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries

Physics instruction in secondary schools is a fundamental panacea towards achieving scientific knowledgeable citizens which can propel a nation in the realization of a sustainable economic force. This paper therefore x-rayed ordeals of physics instruction in Nigerian secondary schools and the way forward for the attainment of global competitiveness. The research has descriptive survey design. Ninety-two (92) physics teachers and eight secondary schools (four in each Local Government Area) were selected using a purposive sampling technique for the study. The research instruments used for the study were &quot;Questionnaire on Ordeal in Physics Instruction in Secondary School (QOPISS) and Physics Practical Apparatus Checklist (PPAC). Using a test-retest method and Pearson Product Moment Correlation, a reliability coefficient of 0.83 was obtained for QOPISS. The data were analyzed according to research questions using the frequency count, percentage, mean, standard deviation and ranking. The study revealed that qualified physics teachers are not adequate for proper teaching of physics, laboratory apparatus are insufficient for effective practical activities in physics teaching and learning in both rural and urban schools, the lecture and problem solving methods are the most applied instructional strategy employed during physics instruction and physics teachers do not utilize ICT tools in teaching physics. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that qualified physics teachers should be employed in the secondary schools, all physics laboratories both in the urban and rural secondary schools should be well equipped by relevant authorities and stake holders, appropriate teaching methodologies and ICT tools integration in the teaching and learning of physics should be employed by physics teachers during physics instruction.
Teachers' Roles in Promoting Students' Learner Autonomy in China
Author: Fumin, Fang
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Teacher Role,Personal Autonomy,Teaching Methods,Student Participation,Questionnaires,English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Second Language Instruction,Factor Analysis,Nonmajors,Likert Scales,College Faculty,College Instruction,College Students

Since 2007, the Ministry of Education of China has been promoting a shift from traditional teaching models to a new teaching model where students' autonomous learning skills can be enhanced. In particular, college students are encouraged to learn English free from the constraints of time or place. While learner autonomy has been perceived as contributing tremendously to student learning, it is a new concept to many local teachers and students. Many teachers even think that the emphasis on learner autonomy means teachers' functions are on the decline. This paper reports on an empirical study that investigated the current roles that teachers play in the context of learner autonomy. Through a questionnaire, the study reveals that teachers took on more challenging and multiple roles in the new teaching model. Meanwhile, the structural model for teachers' roles has been built so as to give implications to college English teachers in China.
Learning Styles, Personality Types and Reading Comprehension Performance
Author: Sadeghi, Nabiollah
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Style,Learning Strategies,Personality Traits,Reading Comprehension,College Students,Academic Achievement,Correlation,Literature Reviews

This study aims at reviewing the relationship between learning styles, personality and reading comprehension performance. In the last two decades, ample studies have been done to examine the relationship between learning styles, learner's personality and performance in academic settings. The reviewed studies substantiate that there is a relationship between personality types and/or traits of the learners, the way they establish their learning styles and their academic success in school and university both at an undergraduate and postgraduate level. Therefore, learners depending on the type of their personality resort to different learning styles or preferences which--in turn--affect their learning performance. However, there are no studies--either theoretical or empirical--examining exclusively the role of personality and learning styles on reading comprehension performance. Moreover, the findings with regard to the bulk of research on the relationship between personality and success in reading comprehension--are not that congruent. Accordingly--due to the scarcity of the research on showing the relationship between personality, learning styles and achievement in reading comprehension, and also incongruity of the research results on personality and reading comprehension performance--the current study proposes that further research on the above areas would be of the great need.
The Cry in the Holy Quran and the Effect on the Human Behavior
Author: al-Domi, Mohammad Mahmoud
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Response,Religious Factors,Islam,Muslims,Religion,Religious Cultural Groups,Grief,Psychological Patterns,Mental Health,Psychology

This study aims that cry is the ideal way to release the negative emotions distress, sorrow, and sadness. Which sometimes is also a way to express situations of joy and pleasure of humans. The Almighty Allah also said about cry in The Holy Quran. The prophet pbuh also cry for the expressions of reverence and fear of Allah in perhaps the sort of cry will be granted to the Muslims, will be shade in the shadow of Allah on the judgment day when there's no shade but His.
Teaching Writing through Communicative Approach in Military English
Author: Likaj, Manjola
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English for Special Purposes,Communicative Competence (Languages),Writing Instruction,Military Service,Military Personnel,Teaching Methods,Writing Skills,Process Approach (Writing),Constructivism (Learning),Developmentally Appropriate Practices,Content Area Writing,Educational Practices,Foreign Countries

The paper speaks about teaching writing through communicative approach in English for Specific Purposes, especially in Military English. There are presented three different approaches regarding writing in ESP: product, process and social-constructionist approach. The recent developments in ESP writing consider the social-constructionist approach as the most appropriate one in making writing communicative. In order to make a writing task as communicative as possible, we should take into consideration the creativity and freedom of the writer to express his ideas openly like he does in his everyday life as well as to meet the expectations of the discourse community to which he addresses. Thus, teachers of military writing have to deal with all formal written texts that military students are assigned to do in their respective jobs. Therefore, military students take writing skill more seriously and become more motivated to communicate their messages through writing and at the same time to enhance their writing skills in a communicative way.
Proposed Model for Innovation of Community Colleges to Meet Labor Market Needs in Saudi Arabia
Author: Almannie, Mohamed
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Community Colleges,Labor Market,Labor Needs,Educational Innovation,School Surveys,Barriers,Change Strategies,Models,College Role,Web Sites,Content Analysis,Interviews,Administrator Attitudes,College Planning,Program Implementation,Performance Factors,Educational Practices,Educational Change,Skilled Workers,Foreign Countries

The study introduced a very important issue for the development of labor market in any developing country. The rapid changes in technology and communication imposed challenges on education institutions for the development of labor market to meet local communities. These institutions have more responsibilities to provide professional and skilled workers for the private and punkie sectors. Although, serving community is an important objective in higher education, but in most of developing countries, the process of development is slow to meet local needs and challenges of and globalization. Many developing countries invested in preparation of professionals, but the problem is the shortages of skilled workers which constitute the largest segment of labor market. Therefore, this study focused on community colleges as the key for the preparation of skilled workers at the bottom of labor market. Based on the success of these colleges in developed countries like United States, Europe, and Japan. This study investigated community colleges in Saudi Arabia to examine their roles in meeting market needs. The study used two instruments; a survey of 25 community colleges was conducted through the WEB, and interview of 22 participants by asking them to use SWOT analysis. The study revealed that community colleges in Saudi Arabia face many obstacles in reaching the objective of preparing skilled workers for local community and labor market. These obstacles center on the quality of programs offered and the gap between community and lack of skills needed by employers. The study proposed a model for innovation and expanding community colleges to increase their role in labor market, which consisted of four parts interrelated; university, community colleges, labor market, and community. Community colleges were considered as the base of the model, where university provide services to community and labor market to get skilled workers. It is also suggested that the first two years of university will be considered community college for students who cannot get have high achievement for the first two years in the university, also the study outlined many benefits for both universities and local communities and labor market in Saudi Arabia. This model may be applicable for other developing countries which face similar obstacles in the development of market needs.
Promoting of Thematic-Based Integrated Science Learning on the Junior High School
Author: Pursitasari, Indarini Dwi
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Junior High Schools,Thematic Approach,Integrated Curriculum,Critical Thinking,Thinking Skills,Pretests Posttests,Questionnaires,Observation,Achievement Gains,Grade 7,Personality,Learning Strategies,Science Activities,Educational Practices,Environmental Education,Foreign Countries

This study was conducted to explain the effect of thematic based integrated science learning to the student's critical thinking skills and character. One group pretest-posttest design is involving thirty students in one of the junior high school in the Palu city. A sample was taken using purposive sampling. Data of critical thinking skills obtained from pretest and posttest, whereas the characters students are collected with observation and questionnaire. The results showed critical thinking skills of students are better after following thematic-based integrated science learning with N-gain as 0.52. Ten characters of students showed good category with the lowest scores on the aspects of environmental concern. The study revealed that thematic based integrated science learning can increase of critical thinking skills and character of the seventh grade junior high school students with good category.
The Enhancement of Students' Teacher Mathematical Reasoning Ability through Reflective Learning
Author: Rohana
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Mathematics Education,Mathematical Logic,Reflection,Thinking Skills,Abstract Reasoning,Mathematics Skills,Quasiexperimental Design,Pretests Posttests,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Private Colleges,Learning Strategies,Mathematics Tests,Mathematics Achievement,Student Teachers,Statistical Analysis,Conventional Instruction,Comparative Analysis

This study aims to examine the enhancement of mathematical reasoning ability through reflective learning. This study used quasi-experimental method with nonequivalent pretest and posttest control group design. The subject of this study were students of Mathematics Education Program in one of private universities in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia, consisting of 155 students. Subject of study are differentiated into two groups namely experimental group who were taught by reflective learning (RL) and control group who were taught by conventional learning (CL). This study was conducted in odd semester academic year of 2013/2014. Instrument in this study are mathematical reasoning ability test, observation sheet, and interview guide. By using Mann-Whitney test, it is concluded that achievement and enhancement of mathematical reasoning ability of student teachers who received RL is better than student teachers who received CL.
Morphological Processing Strategies: An Intervention for Spelling Difficulties in English Language
Author: Anastasiou, Dimitris
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Spelling,Grade 6,Elementary School Students,Verbal Communication,Intervention,Language Processing,Morphemes

The paper presents a descriptive account of a Morphological Processing Spelling Approach (MPSA), which substitutes a more conventional spelling instruction, proposed for developing primary school students' metamorphological knowledge and strategies in English as a foreign language. For the application of the MPSA, seven dictation texts were carefully designed by the researchers, each one including a specific morphemic pattern recycled in ten different words. They were implemented in the 6th grade of an English primary school classroom during seven 45 minute sessions, carried out after the completion of every unit of the conventional English textbook. In this way, each dictation served as a recycling way of teaching inflexional and derivational morphemic patterns. In a guided participatory context, problem-solving spelling activities were performed in five basic steps, involving spellers, especially the struggling ones, into employing morphological processing strategies during sub- processes. It could serve as a supplementary strategy to learning to spell, a critical element of a comprehensive approach to spelling instruction, since MPSA is a flexible approach and can also incorporate the use of phonetic or visually-memory based spelling strategies.
Toward a Reappraisal of the Bonds between Emotional Intelligence and Burnout
Author: Alavinia, Parviz
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Burnout,Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Coping,Teaching Conditions,Second Language Instruction,Emotional Intelligence,Correlation,Burnout,Measures (Individuals),High Schools,Secondary School Teachers,Predictor Variables,Self Efficacy,Teacher Characteristics,Models,Questionnaires,Interpersonal Relationship,Empathy,Stress Management,Problem Solving,Psychological Patterns,Statistical Analysis

Though several researchers have thus far attempted to address the viable relationship between EI and burnout, it seems that few have approached the notion of burnout by considering the influence of teachers' coping resources such as EI especially in an EFL context. Thus, in an attempt to bridge this gap, the present study sought to explore the association between burnout and EI in a sample of 75 high school EFL teachers in West Azerbaijan. Successive to the administration of Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey (Maslach, Jackson, &amp; Leiter, 1996) and Bar-On's EQ-i (1997a, b), the data were analyzed through running Pearson Product-Moment Correlations, Regression analyses and Independent-Samples t-tests. The findings showed that EI was reversely correlated with burnout, and it could be a potent predictor of burnout. Also, in line with the gained upshots age and teaching experience were positively correlated with EI and reversely correlated with teacher burnout. Finally, significant differences among teachers' burnout (but not their EI) were found with respect to gender.
Output and English as a Second Language Pragmatic Development: The Effectiveness of Output-Focused Video-Based Instruction
Author: Jernigan, Justin
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Instructional Effectiveness,Pragmatics,Task Analysis,Effect Size,Intensive Language Courses,Teaching Methods,Video Technology,Linguistic Theory,Intercultural Communication,Adult Students,Speech Acts,Instructional Materials,Language Tests,Scoring,Statistical Analysis,Pretests Posttests

Swain's Output Hypothesis proposes a facilitative effect for output on the acquisition of second language morphosyntax. In the context of classroom instruction, a number of studies and reviews suggest that explicit instruction in pragmatic elements promotes development. Other studies have offered less conclusive evidence of the effectiveness of various instructional options. The present classroom-based study examined the effectiveness of output-focused, video-based instruction for the development of second language intercultural pragmatic development among adult ESL learners representing different first language backgrounds in an intensive English program setting. The results suggest that the instructional treatment had a significant effect on a written pragmatic acceptability judgment task (PAJT). Results on a written discourse completion task (DCT) were mixed; no significant effects were identified, but a relatively large effect size was calculated for the output group.
The Effect of Instructing Impression Management Behaviors on Maximizing Applicants' Performance in the IELTS Speaking Test
Author: Namdar, Sara
Date: 2012-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Oral Language,Language Tests,Experimental Groups,Language Proficiency,Video Technology,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,Interviews,Control Groups,Evaluators,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Pretests Posttests,Computer Software,Statistical Analysis

Speaking proceeds under the constraint of time. While speaking, speakers are under constant pressure to follow the message being received and to formulate rapid responses to their partners. In the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Speaking Test, the communicative nature of the interview creates an ideal situation for applicants to use impression management (IM) behaviors. Sixty IELTS students studying in Bahar institute of Shiraz, Iran were selected for this study and assigned to two groups of control and experimental. The experimental group received treatment and students were taught IM tactics. At the end of the course, students took part in the test and their oral proficiency was measured by a certified IELTS examiner. The interviews were also videotaped and the participants were asked to attend a post-test interview and to fill out a post-test questionnaire, too. The results proved the positive effect of IM instruction on candidates' performance in the IELTS Speaking test.
An Examination of the Role of Nursery Education on Primary School Pupils in Nigeria
Author: Oniwon, H. O. Evelyn
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preschool Education,Elementary Schools,Elementary School Students,Elementary Education,Nursery Schools,Program Effectiveness,Surveys,Mathematics Tests,Writing Tests

This study examines the role of Nursery education among primary school pupils. The sole objective of the study was to find out the differences in academic achievement between primary school pupils who received nursery education and those who did not. Descriptive survey research design was adopted to achieve the study objective. Consequently, 20 primary one pupils from Christ the King Nursery and Primary school Okene, Kogi State ten each from those that received nursery education and those that did not receive nursery education participated in the study. Five generic frames--numeric skills, sentence construction, verbal expression, creativity and writing skills- were used to measure pupils' academic achievement. The result showed a marking difference between the two set of pupils with pupils who attended nursery schools performing better. The researcher thus recommends among others that the government of Nigeria should encourage parents to send their children to nursery schools. Keywords: education, examine, nursery, and primary