Abstract The purpose of this study, conducted as a follow-up study Oshima (2020), was to examine whether Japanese EFL students’ use vocabulary changed after being given lessons on explicit instruction text structure and process writing. Two groups college students—the beginner-level group writing descriptive essay the advanced-level an argumentative essay—wrote outline, first draft (D1), second...

The purpose of this study is to further understand Korean university students’ perception using English as a primary medium instruction in speaking classes, along with their beliefs about what language would prove the most beneficial instruction. This aims present that students hold which language(s) should be employed and for reasons, well whether these vary depending on proficiency. research ...

PURPOSE To detect predictive factors for postoperative incontinence following holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) according to surgeon experience (beginner or experienced) and preoperative clinical data. METHODS Of 224 patients, a total of 203 with available data on incontinence were investigated. The potential predictive factors for post-HoLEP incontinence included clinical fac...

Teachers’ judgments in their ability to motivate students and promote learning can play a vital role in determining a student’s performance in the classroom and once a belief has been held for a long time, it can become difficult to change. Utilising a sample of 467 beginner and final year pre-service teachers training to become primary (elementary) and secondary teachers, the aim of this study...

In an effort to support the growing trend of the Java programming language and to promote web-based personalized education, the Java Intelligent Tutoring System (JITS) was designed and developed. This tutoring system is unique in a number of ways. Most Intelligent Tutoring Systems require the teacher to author problems with corresponding solutions. JITS, on the other hand, requires the teacher ...

Computer programming is a skill required in many professions, not just computer science. Lego Mindstorms NXT can be incorporated into a programming course to add hands-on interactivity that will better engage a broader range of students. Chosing the most suitable programming language is difficult, and this paper summarizes some experiences in teaching students using RoboLab and NXT-G for Mindst...

Tonal errors pose a serious problem to Mandarin Chinese learners, making them stumble in their communication. The purpose of this paper is to investigate beginner level Japanese students’ difficulties in the perception and pronunciation of disyllabic words, particularly to find out which combinations of tones these errors mostly occur in. As a result, the errors made by the 10 subjects were mos...

earning is often seen as 'the acquisition of information'. However, for theoretical and practical L purposes, such as training in surgical skills, this is too simplistic. Learning can be approached from several different perspectives. It can be like a product, emphasising the end result, for example, competence in resuscitation techniques. Alternatively, it can be seen as a process, emphasising...

Although experts should be well positioned to convey their superior knowledge and skill to novices, the organization of that knowledge, and particularly its level of abstraction, may make it difficult for them to do so. Using an electronic circuit-wiring task, the authors found that experts as compared with beginners used more abstract and advanced statements and fewer concrete statements when ...

There are many important issues in informatics and many agree that algorithms and programming are most important issues that need to be included in informatics education (Dagienė and Jevsikova, 2012). In this paper, we propose how some of these issues can be easily taught us� ing the notion of a formal system which consists of axioms and inference rules by which theorems can be proved. As is ar...