Recent research has demonstrated that social responsiveness (comprised of social awareness, social information processing, reciprocal social communication, social motivation, and repetitive/restricted interests) is continuously distributed within the general population. In the present study, we consider temperament as a co-occurring source of individual differences in social responsiveness in y...

BACKGROUND The impact of socio-economic position and integration level on the observed ethnic differences in dietary habits has received little attention. OBJECTIVES To identify and describe dietary patterns in a multi-ethnic population of pregnant women, to explore ethnic differences in odds ratio (OR) for belonging to a dietary pattern, when adjusted for socio-economic status and integratio...

Humanizing language learning materials helps language teachers to design activities that are linked to learn- ers’ lives and experiences. This can result in higher motivation and engagement in the process of foreign language learning. Self-determination theory-based instruction enhances learners’ engagement and motiva- tion through supporting the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competen...

reading development and instruction is a pedagogical priority at all academic levels. historically, in the educational field, numerous efforts have been made to facilitate the complex process of foreign language reading comprehension. more recently, increasing attention has been paid to the use of computers for developing reading comprehension skills and various efforts have been made in this r...

Constructing a data model for a problem area requires identifying and formulating some symbolic representation of the concepts involved, their characteristics, and the relationships between them. Taking a socio-cultural perspective on learning, analysis of classroom dialog is used to identify cognitive challenges met by novice students of data modelling. This paper shows how Vygotskyan theory o...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

1. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Institute for Information Technology Application, US Air Force Academy; 2. Florida State University; 3. Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design, and Media; 4. Center for Spoken Language Research, University of Colorado at Boulder; 5. SRI International; 6. Learning Sciences Laboratory (LSL) at the National Institute of Education (NI...

Inspiring teaching is the kind of pedagogy that motivates pupils to study autonomously, in their own time, of their own volition beyond the classroom, and may be particularly important for long-term endeavours such as learning a second language. This study aimed to find out the prevalence and nature of inspiring English language teaching in the state school systems in two Asian contexts, Guangz...

Ema Ushioda is a professor and Head of the Department Applied Linguistics at University Warwick. She has been interested in motivation autonomy language learning for over 30 years, particularly from pedagogical qualitative research perspectives. Recent books include Teaching researching (3 rd ed.), co-authored with Zoltán Dörnyei (Routledge, 2021), Language motivation: An ethical agenda (Oxford...