As a new faculty member, I find it very clear what the senior faculty in my department think I should be doing with my time: the activities necessary to earn tenure. And if something doesn’t contribute to earning tenure, I shouldn’t be doing it. We have tenure criteria that are much more clear and explicit than many departments seem to have. In many respects, this is very positive. I know exact...

Research on vocabulary acquisition in SLA has revealed that a large proportion of is acquired without overt intention. This paper analyzes the relevance different lexical processing strategies for incidental while reading involving 56 native Chinese speakers who are studying English at local university China. The which participants adopted to analyze unknown words discussed based cognitive proc...

Abstract The current study aimed to compare the influence of explicit versus implicit instruction on EFL learners’ use interactional metadiscourse markers in their writing. also explore perceptions learners these writing classes. 120 female undergraduates who are Arab took part investigation. A mixed-methods research design was adopted with an group, group and a control group. experimental grou...

The causal-contrast approach is a new teaching method that recruits learners’ implicit causal discovery process to improve math learning by juxtaposing contrasting information critical to discovering the goal of each solution step. Students often blindly memorize mathematical procedures and have difficulty transferring their knowledge to novel problems. By enabling learners to infer the goal of...

With the introduction of any new initiative into the mathematics classroom, there is often an assumption that it will produce visible and measurable effects in teaching approaches and pupil progress. Yet, there is a body of research that tempers such optimism, drawing attention to a series of mitigating factors, for example, the deep-seated nature of teachers’ practices, their implicit or state...

After more than a decade, the early claims that elearning would transform university teaching are yet to be realised. As elearning, with learning management systems as the centrepiece, becomes entrenched in the mainstream, there is growing demand for a solid theoretical research base to inform elearning practice. We argue that the lack of a solid research base is in part due to the inherent dif...

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The paper presents a novel approach for accurate polygonization of implicit surfaces with sharp features. The approach is based on mesh evolution towards a given implicit surface with simultaneous control of the mesh vertex positions and mesh normals.