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Jensen, Lasse X.; Bearman, Margaret; Boud, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
There is growing agreement that feedback should be understood as a contextual and social process, rather than as receipt of teacher comments on students' work. This reframing brings with it new complexities, and it can be challenging for researchers and practitioners to adopt a process perspective when making sense of feedback practices in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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Mustafa Yildiz – rEFLections, 2023
The current research investigates the lexical coverage of reading passages required for achieving the minimal and optimal levels of reading comprehension in a foreign language. More specifically, the aim of the study is to identify the word frequency bands within the reading passages in the English tests of The Higher Education Institutions…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Gramatakos, Anastasia Luise; Lavau, Stephanie – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: Many higher education institutions are committed to developing students as skilled professionals and responsible citizens for a more sustainable future. In addition to the formal curriculum for sustainability education, there is an increasing interest in informal learning within universities. This paper aims to extend the current…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Higher Education
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Hsu, Wenhua – Journal of English Teaching, 2021
English-medium instruction (EMI) has become a nationwide trend in Taiwan's higher education institutions. Behind this rapid growth is the widespread belief that EMI provides English immersion, which facilitates incidental learning of the target language. However, not all EMI programs in EFL contexts provide the same immersion as those in the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Becnel, Kim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The emergent phenomena of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality is having an impact on ways people communicate with technology and with each other. Schools and higher education institutions are embracing these emerging technologies and implementing them at a rapid pace. The challenge, however, is to identify well-defined problems…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
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Chen, Wen-Chun; Eslami, Zohreh – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
This study investigated the effectiveness of incidental focus on form in promoting second language development in text-based live chats. Sixteen college-level Taiwanese English language learners were partnered with American college students to complete two communicative tasks via synchronous chats on Instant Messenger. Language-related episodes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning
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Williams, Kent – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2013
This paper will provide a review of research--regarding explicit grammar instruction--that groups recent studies into three main categories and then sub-categorizes these studies under key terms in second language acquisition (SLA) research. The overall purpose of this paper is to argue that in light of these issues, recent studies have shown that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Grammar, Second Language Instruction
Knippelmeyer, Sheri A.; Torraco, Richard J. – Online Submission, 2007
Higher education, a setting devoted to the enhancement of learning, inquiry, and development, continues to lack effective development for faculty. Mentoring relationships seek to provide enhancement, yet few mentoring programs exist. This literature review examines forms of mentoring, its benefits, barriers to implementation, means for successful…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mentors, Incidental Learning, Faculty Development
Sánchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Madrid, Spain, February 28-March 2, 2014. The Mobile Learning 2014 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education