This study examined a corpus of 10 widely used prealgebra and algebra textbooks, with the goal of investigating whether they exhibited a symbol precedence view of mathematical development as is found among high school teachers. The textbook analysis focused on the sequence in which problem-solving activities were presented to students. As predicted, textbooks showed the symbol precedence view, ...

Language is embedded in society and culture, and for that matter, learning a foreign language involves learning its culture. This paper is concerned with the inseparability of culture and language in foreign language teaching, arguing that culture introduction is an effective way to promote students’ cultural awareness and language proficiency. Foreign language textbooks are major channels for ...

abstractthe present research was conducted to compare the efficiency of 3 groups of esp instructors: content teachers, language teachers, and professional esp teachers. the main question was aimed to investigate whether there was a significant difference between the 3 mentioned groups of esp teachers and if there was, who was more qualified to teach esp. to find the answer, a questionnaire was ...

In Slovenia, textbooks are an integral part of the curriculum. Nationally certified guarantee both teachers and students that they provide all necessary knowledge in each subject. There many available for subject must decide which will be source instruction their students. Our research question is whether groups who use different as mandatory learning resource differ attitudes towards learning....

Ž . The ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode network is regarded as effective for a multimedia telecommunication environment that enables high-speed and broadband communication. This paper reports on the system architecture and Ž . design concept of the FETEX-150 ESP Enhanced Switching Platform which has been designed as an ATM switch in a public broadband network. To track the latest ATM standards a...

Despite the promises of e-textbooks, the wide-spread adoption by college students has yet to materialize. The customization of e-textbook support will facilitate the process, but it requires a better understanding of the differences among individual users in their adoption of e-textbooks. The main focus of this study is to examine the role of technology savvy in terms of ITrelated experiences, ...

Current textbooks are believed to provide an updated knowledge. Medical students usually read the textbooks but not the literature that contain the original research articles and reviews. Here, we examined the gap between the current textbooks and literature with the enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells as an example. A total of 70 textbooks that were published for medical education during the las...

BACKGROUND The understandability and readability of the text are significant indicators of evaluation of textbooks. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study - rationale of improving the readability and understandability of textbooks. METHODS 60 modern textbooks for 5-11th classes on History, Physics, Biology and 23 textbooks of 1960-1980's edition. Flesch index was used to assess the readability, Fog...

This study reports on integrating ESP (English for specific purposes) multimedia courseware for semiconductor technology into instruction of three different language programs in higher education by using it as a silent partner. It focuses primarily on techniques and tools to motivate retention of under-prepared students in an EFL setting. The courseware design was based on Mayer’s multimedia le...