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Catie Nielson; Emma Pitt; Michal Fux; Kristin de Nesnera; Nicole Betz; Jessica S. Leffers; Kimberly D. Tanner; John D. Coley – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Previous research has shown that students employ intuitive thinking when understanding scientific concepts. Three types of intuitive thinking--essentialist, teleological, and anthropic thinking--are used in biology learning and can lead to misconceptions. However, it is unknown how commonly these types of intuitive thinking, or cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Usage, College Students, Biology, Scientific Concepts
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Ellen B. Rubinstein; Hannah Rayel; Elizabeth C. Crawford; Mary Larson – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This exploratory study examined campus attitudes toward vaccines to guide subsequent development of context-relevant interventions for increasing vaccine acceptance and uptake. Participants: We gathered ethnographic data on a convenience sample of campus community members (students, faculty, staff) at a public university over six weeks…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, College Students, College Faculty, School Personnel
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Joseph B. Quinto – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
Pinoylish (Philippine English) has made a mark in the literature, although research on the perspectives of university students on Pinoylish is still scarce. As a result, a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was undertaken to investigate the awareness and notions of 761 university students in Northern Luzon, Philippines. The results…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Chengyuan Yu – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: While higher education has been encouraging interdisciplinary research, few studies have been conducted to understand how interdisciplinarity shapes the identity construction of scholars, especially doctoral students who may already strive to socialize into academia. Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, this study adopts the approach…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Students, Self Concept, Foreign Students
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Jing Lan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
Writing ability is an essential skill for college students to improve their school performance and complete their academic writing tasks. Proficient English writing skills are also highly advantageous for their future career prospects and personal growth. However, many English learners face difficulties in various aspects of English writing. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Difficulties, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
Chrissy Monteleone; Monica Wong – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
In this study, the authors investigate the written feedback provided to primary and secondary pre-service teachers studying a specialisation in mathematics. The analysis focuses on 16 written reports completed by mentor teachers during the penultimate year placement of pre-service teachers. The evaluation employs a framework informed by the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Written Language, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ismo T. Koponen; Karoliina Vuola; Maija Nousiainen – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2024
We analyze here how pre-service teachers explicate their views about the wave-particle duality of photons and what role it plays in their arguments supporting the quantum nature of light. The data for the analysis is provided by 12 written reports about the double-slit experiment with feeble light. The analysis is based on constructing semantic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Physics, Knowledge Level
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Ikuya Aizawa; Heath Rose; Jim McKinley; Gene Thompson – Language and Education, 2024
In the growing body of English medium instruction (EMI) research, few studies have directly compared the effects of medium of instruction on subject learning. This study compares direct measures of content knowledge and perceptions of knowledge acquisition for students studying Chemistry via English (n = 27) and Japanese Medium Instruction (JMI)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction
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Ulmer, Nico; Divine, Ntiokam; Wydra, Kerstin – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Less than eight years remain to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Numerous authors underlined the importance of language in achieving the SDGs; however, its role in the process remains overlooked. This paper aims to investigate the sustainability understanding among Tanzanian students and graduates, their translation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Language Usage, College Students
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Jennifer Burton; Wales Wong; Shakina Rajendram – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
This study brings together translanguaging and critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) (García, 2015, 2017) to examine how teacher candidates (TCs) prepare to support multilingual learners in elementary classrooms. Data was drawn from four TCs in a teacher education course on supporting multilingual learners in Ontario, Canada. Research…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Knowledge Level, Preservice Teachers
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Bozbiyik, Merve; Morton, Tom – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Recent studies in applied linguistics research have focused on how teachers draw on 'outside' knowledge relating to students' everyday life for the purpose of teaching subject matter content. This study focuses on such practices in the context of English-medium instruction (EMI) higher education in an online undergraduate chemistry module.…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Language of Instruction, English, Semiotics
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Karatas, Faik Özgür; Cengiz, Canan; Çelik, Suat – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
Investigating the integration of learning journals into a pre-service teacher education course to promote reflection was the overall goal of this study. Studies about evaluating students' journals have generally analyzed them using a holistic and general approach without examining their content and levels of reflection. This study focuses on both…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Reflection, Journal Writing
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Salah M. Ali; Kamariah Yunus; Turky Alshaikhi; Abdussalam Marie Aliia – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2025
The aim of the study is to investigate the use of digital technology in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom using various digital tools through computers and cell phones. These tools and their effect on self-perceived knowledge, learning, and English use were analyzed at the University of Tabuk. The study was conducted on a sample of 605…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Yulia Muchnik-Rozanov; Orna Levin – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Teacher-parent communication is one of the domains in teacher education where the gap between theory and practice is evident. Although teacher-education programmes are responsible for developing preservice teachers' (PSTs') effective parent-teacher communication skills, such interactions are rarely practiced during the training. Simulation-Based…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Simulation, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Trang, Nguyen Huynh; Nguyen, Duyen Thi Bich; Ha, Hung Tan – SAGE Open, 2023
The article shines light upon the differences in the vocabulary demands of academic spoken discourse between three broad scientific disciplines: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. By employing the Academic Word List (AWL) and British National Corpus/Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) wordlist, the present study…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences
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