This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SIL...

This paper reports on a study of the use process drama in an international primary school Netherlands. The research investigated extent to which using could develop participation for advanced EAL learners. In addition, we sought understand pupils’ perspectives. Using qualitative methodology, undertook case approach focusing six learner pupils (9-10-year-olds). We implemented during series nine ...

In this paper the authors discuss whether the voluntary participation in virtual interaction improves the learning outcome in the field of Civil Engineering on the basis of their experimental evidence. The focus of this study concerns the students who never took an active online part, the so-called lurker. The experiments have taken place three times since 2001 during the study of the subject S...

The quasi-experimental classroom study reported in this paper compared the eff ectiveness of three adult EFL course delivery modes – face-to-face group classes, one-to-one private tutoring and online self-study by analysing learners’ cognitive engagement, understood as level participation, involvement ort learners each mode they completed same language tasks. was conducted within a Vygotskian s...

This study attempts to determine the relationship between pre-service teachers’ curriculum literacy and their preparedness teach. Having a quantitative research design, employed corelational survey model. The sample consisted of 373 teachers studying in departments Arabic, science, primary school mathematics, English, classroom, social sciences Turkish education. participants were chosen by con...

If students are demotivated, confused and look tired in class, one solution is to use new teaching styles in your class to overcome such problems. This is because learners learn in different ways such as hearing, seeing, taking notes, imagining and visualizing, among many others. The paper reports firstly, the impact of teaching and learning style preferences and their match or mismatch on lear...

Learning analytics for learners has the ability to greatly improve learners’ self-regulation. Current learner dashboards are mostly providing learners with an isolated view of their learning behavior, while we believe learners will gain more from a comparison of their own behavior with that of successful peer learners. In this work-in-progress demonstration we describe our design of a Learning ...

Self-determination theory (SDT) underpins research on learner empowerment, but it is rarely discussed in empowerment-related literature. In addition, a motivational measure stemming from SDT has received little visibility in communication research. To address these concerns, this study focuses on motivational theory and measurement in an attempt to tease out the relationship between motivation ...