This study reports on integrating ESP (English for specific purposes) multimedia courseware for semiconductor technology into instruction of three different language programs in higher education by using it as a silent partner. It focuses primarily on techniques and tools to motivate retention of under-prepared students in an EFL setting. The courseware design was based on Mayer’s multimedia le...

This study investigates instruction librarians’ potential teacher identity and the factors that may contribute to it. Responses a survey of librarians in United States suggest respondents see themselves as teachers devote significant portion their time teaching, though they received little pedagogy training library school. In addition, relationship was found between knowledge identity. However,...

Deductive refers to a more teacher-centered approach to instruction, where inductive For a clearer understanding of these methods visit Dr. Bilash's page titled The lesson I have attached below is an example of an inductive approach. In the western world, deductive teaching approaches are common in A teacher writes on the board a few examples of simple present and simple past. (Using Inductive ...

Changes in education policy, the accumulation of research evidence that skilled instruction prevents and ameliorates reading failure, accountability requirements, and a new emphasis on multi-tiered interventions in schools are all causing a growing interest in improving teacher knowledge and skill in reading instruction. Consensus frameworks that explain reading development and individual diffe...

We report research and development work with STEP (Secondary Teacher Education Project) Web, an innovative and complex web site designed to support learning through facilitated video case discussions in secondary teacher education programs. The goal of instruction with STEP is to help pre-service teachers acquire useful scientific knowledge about cognitive psychology and other learning sciences...

The use of response cards during whole-class English vocabulary instruction was evaluated. Five low-participating students were observed during hand-raising conditions and response-card conditions to observe the effects of response cards on student responding and test scores and teacher questions and feedback. Responding and test scores were higher for all targeted students in the response-card...

What makes a good teacher, and how should we structure classrooms to promote effective teaching? This paper investigates the idea that a good teacher is a good communicator, using models of optimal pragmatic communication to explore the dynamics of classroom learning. The proposed model describes teaching as choosing examples of a concept to present to students in order to maximize their inform...

These 2 studies investigate the extent to which an Embodied Mixed Reality Learning Environment (EMRELE) can enhance science learning compared to regular classroom instruction. Mixed reality means that physical tangible and digital components were present. The content for the EMRELE required that students map abstract concepts and relations onto their gestures and movements so that the concepts ...

A computer based interactive instruction for a first introduction to Matlab has been developed and stored on CD-Rom. The program integrates Matlab and the authoring program Medi8or, so an active use of the Matlab command window is combined with text and speaks. A specially developed Web-based computer conference system was used for enrolment, discussion forum, help from the teacher etc. This sy...

Although the literature on flipped instruction to date appears to be relatively atheoretical, the benefits listed in the flipped literature fit well with theories of optimal learning environments (e.g., Egbert, Hanson-Smith, & Chao, 2007) and student engagement (Lin, 2012, and others). This conceptual paper links flipped instruction to these two models and then briefly describes an ESL teacher ...