The purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers TEFL (teaching English as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. Subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. The adapted English version of Mills’ and Péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the Foreign Langu...

One form of long-term behavior revealed by opinion dynamics simulations is intermittency, where an individual cycles between eras stable, constant beliefs and turbulent, fluctuating beliefs, for example when inferring the political bias a media organization. We explore this phenomenon building idealized network Bayesian learners, who infer coin from observations tosses peer pressure allies oppo...

It is no unknown fact that South African learners, as well as learners world-wide, underachieve in mathematics. Taking into consideration that the quality of mathematics instruction might be one possible factor that has an influence on learners’ mathematics achievement, there are valid reasons questioning the conceptual mathematical knowledge of mathematics teachers. In order to facilitate conc...

This study explored the use of virtual world role-play activities to increase pre-service teachers’ sense of teaching efficacy and attitudes toward inclusion. These constructs are also important for teacher identity development since they influence teacher dispositions, effort, professional development and beliefs in intrinsic obligations. The activity was embedded in an undergraduate course fo...

the present study-both qualitative and quantitative--explored fifty efl learners’ preferences for receiving error feedback on different grammatical units as well as their beliefs about teacher feedback strategies. the study also examined the effect of the students’ level of writing ability on their views about the importance of teacher feedback on different error types. data was gathered throug...