This presentation draws on teacher effectiveness research to consider implications for teacher professional development. The first part provides a critical review of research on teacher effectiveness. The major findings of this field of research are analyzed. It is argued that teacher factors are presented as being in opposition to one another and that the whole process of searching for teacher...

arabic language instruction in iran has always relied on cognitive factors, and has been based on grammar-translation method. consequently, issues such as arabic learner's and teacher's mental processes during learning and teaching, metacognitive factors, interlocutors' characteristics and the conversation setting, learner's information processing procedure, etc. have never ...

Research on inspectable learner models involves the study of representational aspects of the profile that systems maintain about learners. When learners and teachers interact with inspectable learner models several questions arise, such as: What kind of representation is most appropriate for learners and teachers?; How will students and teachers react to different representations?; How should l...

The following study has been conducted to discover the characteristics of an effective clinical teacher as described by faculty and students in a selected baccalaureate school of nursing. Through determination of these characteristics, clinical teachers can improve their teaching methodology and provide a more effective learning environment for the learner. The identification of these character...

Learner autonomy has been considered the central aim of education because its significant role in enabling students to develop into successful lifelong learners. In modern times, have many opportunities learn outside classroom, ideal context for learner development. Therefore, research about development out-of-class learning needs receive more focus, especially Vietnam. Based on sociocultural t...

Examples of learning vocabulary through the computer are appearing with increasing regularity in the recent CALL literature. Much of this learning, however, tends to be teacher-centred in that learners often rely on teachers to select the vocabulary items that they are to study. In the current study, pre-intermediate learners of English studying at a university in Japan were divided into two gr...

Along with the theories of language teaching and learning, theories on language learning strategies (LLS) have recently been of key interest in the field of language education. This article tries to relate these LLS with the contemporary eclectic trend in language education and aims to discover the LLS that individual learners use to facilitate their own learning. And based on a survey, it also...

We present an interactive paradigm for the construction of pixel classifiers. The user selects training pixels incrementally, based on real-time feedback from the classifier running in the background. Experiments show that this facilitates the construction of very small yet accurate decision tree classifiers. The framework is extensible in many ways. For example, we show how classifiers can be ...

In this paper, we present selected findings from our usage analysis of an online English Language Teaching (ELT) workbook. We focus on how teachers assign activities and how learners complete them.