This paper discusses learner-centered approaches and evaluation in English language teaching and learning materials design. Based on the researches in this field, a framework is developed for the evaluation of learner-centered components contained in the materials. Thereafter, we apply the criteria to the assessment of two major English textbooks College English (1991) and Experiencing English ...

We sketch a pedagogical ‚theory‘ based on Bruner’s educational psychology that might set computer science education for students and teachers on a well-founded basis and integrate different approaches to teach it, stress its long-lasting fundamentals and give a feeling of its essence. For it we (1) define the notion of fundamental ideas more precisely by several criteria, (2) present a collecti...

Background: This study explored the credibility of Swedish third-grade students’ self-assessments of their reading achievement by relating those assessments to two different criteria—teachers’ judgments and students’ reading test scores. Student gender and socioeconomic status (SES) were introduced to determine to what extent, if any, these variables were associated with the accuracy of the sel...

Mobile-assisted language learning applications (MALL) has significant potential in the developing world where access to teachers and classrooms are real barriers to learning. This demonstration of an Android-based mobile language learning application is used to teach vocabulary and employs off-line Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-speech (TTS) technologies with custom-built langua...

Although middle school teachers use a variety of ELL textbooks, many lack effective criteria to critically select materials that represent a wide range of L2 learning strategies. This study analyzed the illustrated and written content of 33 ELL textbooks to determine the range of L2 learning strategies represented. The researchers chose an intentional, convenience sample from each textbook to f...

The main problems of school course timetabling are time, curriculum, and classrooms. In addition there are other problems that vary from one institution to another. This paper is intended to solve the problem of satisfying the teachers’ preferred schedule in a way that regards the importance of the teacher to the supervising institute, i.e. his score according to some criteria. Genetic algorith...