We studied a group of immigrants who were following regular, teacher-fronted Dutch classes, and who were assigned to three groups using either a) Dutch CAPT, an ASR-based Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system that provides feedback on a number of Dutch speech sounds that are problematic for L2 learners b) a CAPT system without feedback c) no CAPT system. Participants were teste...

Course materials in teacher education programmes are one of the means to support young teachers learn content knowledge and pedagogical theories. The chosen their learning a range areas, this article presents findings study that explored how Swedish preschool student perceived course relation internationalisation intercultural practice. Questionnaires were administered students at university th...

Considering the paramount importance of writing logical arguments for college students, this study investigated the effect of dynamic assessment (DA) of Toulmin model through teacher- and collective-scaffolding on argument structure and overall quality of argumentative essays of Iranian EFL university learners. In so doing, 45 male and female Iranian EFL learners taking part in the study were r...

Traditionally, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are dedicated to learners. They help them learn at their own pace, following a curriculum tailored to their individual needs and receiving individualised feedback. Intelligent Teaching Assistant Systems (ITAs) are dedicated both to learners and teachers. Their aim is to facilitate the whole teaching/learning process by helping the teacher as wel...

This paper describes the work-in-progress of the development of an authoring tool for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). The main objective of this tool is to be useful to teachers and students of domains that make use of algebraic equations. Such domains could be chemistry, economics, medicine, physics etc. The initial input to the tool will be a “description” of a specific domain given by a ...

In physics teacher education the challenge is to promote the development of expertise needed from physics teachers. In that close collaboration between physicist and physics education professionals is needed. This, however, poses many challenges, which are not easily met. We describe here some guidelines, based on our own experience from a pilot course for pre-service physics teacher education....

—This paper presents two different approaches for utilizing virtual environments to enable learning for both human and robotic students. In the first approach, we showcase a 3D interactive environment that allows a human user to learn how to interact with a virtual robot, before interaction with a physical robot. In the second approach, we present a method that utilizes a simulation environment...

Corrective feedback has received significant attention in English language teaching, and its role has been highly substantial. Considering the importance of corrective feedback in EFL classes, this study aimed at finding the effects of indirect and gradual CF on Iranian EFL learners' grammatical development and their beliefs toward CF. Twenty EFL learners, meeting the c...

As a secondary mathematics teacher, I used practitioner action research to determine effective ways to intervene with students working in groups, with the goal of improving their communication. Utilising transcripts of group interactions and teacher interventions, field notes, and student feedback, I discovered ten different issues that prevent students from communicating effectively and develo...

Teachable agents build upon research showing that students can learn by teaching their peers. In these systems, students learn by teaching simulated pupils who can be designed to support productive types of feedback and teacher-pupil interactions. We found that students learned better when they taught an agent designed to mimic a self-regulated learner (i.e. pushed the teacher to ask questions,...