Positive teacher-child relationships are key factors for children’s social-emotional development and academic success in schools. Teachers’ ability to provide children with emotional support and understand children’s unique needs may improve challenging behaviors in the classroom. Play-based teacher intervention training models provide teachers opportunities to become therapeutic agents and lea...

This paper illustrates a five-year case study (from 2001 to 2005) regarding a course in educational technology that involved from 100 to 150 student teachers per year for a total of more than 500 trainees. Since the first version of the course, which was entirely based on a face-to-face approach, computer mediated collaborative learning techniques have gradually been introduced into the trainin...

We participated in the SemEval-2007 coarse-grained English all-words task and fine-grained English all-words task. We used a supervised learning approach with SVM as the learning algorithm. The knowledge sources used include local collocations, parts-of-speech, and surrounding words. We gathered training examples from English-Chinese parallel corpora, SEMCOR, and DSO corpus. While the fine-grai...

I would contend, however, that the significance of online communication lies not in its separation from the real world, but on its impact on nearly every single aspect of the real world. Just as there is no such thing as "speechspace" or "writingspace" or "printspace," so there is no cyberspace, and the notion of it is thus not helpful for understanding the very real impact of online networking...

In this study, storytelling was surveyed with regard to the impact that it might haveon student-teacher interactional patterns. For this aim, the researchers utilized anintact class with ten young students in a language institute in a north eastern part ofthe country. Four sessions of the class were transcribed after a full observationalprotocol. Two groups of Interactional patterns on student-...

Teacher education is related to the future talent training of country and has far-reaching significance. Teacher-training students majoring in English not only need learn well but also how teach English. Therefore, teacher-training majors should emphasize cultivation subjects teaching ability, which be limited either language learning or skills. At present, all levels types attach great importa...

objective: social skills training (sst) aims to increase the ability to perform key social behaviors that are important in achieving success in social situations. the purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of social skills intervention for aggressive pre-school children. method: the sample consisted of 25 children (13 for the experimental group, 12 for the control group). childr...