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Yiling Hu; Yanjun Chen; Bian Wu – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
As a key professional competence of teachers, empathy involves whether teachers can stand in the student's position to pay attention, understand their behavior, and make reasonable judgment and explanation of it. Researchers have discovered that 360° virtual reality (360° VR), a relatively recent form of media, can be particularly powerful in…
Descriptors: Empathy, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Video Technology
Yan Lin; Hongjian Liao; Suxian Weng; Wanqi Dong – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Children's preschool years are crucial for the development of computational thinking (CT) skills. However, debate continues regarding whether CT should be developed through plugged-in or unplugged activities. This study investigated the similarities and differences between plugged-in and unplugged activities with similar learning content and…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
Cheng Yao; Supawadee Kanjanakate; Nirat Jantharajit – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
The study explores the effects of a hybrid instructional approach combining Situated Learning (SL) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on the executive functions and cognitive abilities of fourth-grade students learning English as a second language (ESL). Method: An experimental design was employed, with students divided into control and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Situated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xi Yu; Frank Boers; Paul Tremblay – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article reports a quasi-experimental study which compared the effectiveness for multiword item learning of three listening-based activities: dictation, dictogloss, and answering text comprehension questions. In a dictation, students write down segments of text immediately after listening to them, whereas in dictogloss students try to…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shadiev, Rustam; Wang, Xueying; Liu, Taoying; Yang, Mengke – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Fifty-one learning strategies were developed and validated in this study to make language learners more knowledgeable about unfamiliar environments. The study tested the effectiveness of the strategies in improving the creativity of students. 75 university students participated in the study and they were divided into three groups: (1) students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, English (Second Language), Educational Environment
Zhang, Le-Xuan; Leung, Bo-Wah; Yang, Yang – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
Demonstration lessons are used in China to provide models of quality music instruction. However, to date, no research has been done on the quality of demonstration lessons and how this relates to the improvement of school music education in China. This content analysis provides an insight into China's music demonstration lesson implementation and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
Huang, Zilin; Benati, Alessandro – Applied Language Learning, 2023
This study investigates the effects of motivation and structured input on the acquisition of English past tense regular forms. The role of motivation in the positive effects generated by processing instruction has been investigated in one previous study (Farhat & Benati, 2018). However, more research is needed to generalize the initial…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input
Xiong, Tao; Peng, Yue – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This paper presents a comparative analysis investigating how cultural values are represented in two sets of widely used Chinese as a second language (CSL) textbooks published in mainland China (New Practical Chinese Reader, NPCR) and the US (Integrated Chinese, IC) respectively. Using an integrated critical social semiotic approach, we examined…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xiaoji Wang; Wenying Jiang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Affordance refers to the opportunity available to a learning activity. Taking affordance as a theoretical and analytical construct, this exploratory study investigates learners' attitudes and the opportunities WeChat may provide for Chinese cultural knowledge (CCK) learning. The aim is to find out the potential new affordances and compare learners…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Awareness, Learning Activities
Xu, Jinfen; Li, Changying – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study investigates how different form-focused instruction (FFI) timing impacts English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' grammar development. A total of 169 Chinese middle school learners were assigned to four conditions randomly: control, before-isolated FFI, integrated FFI, and after-isolated FFI. The three experimental groups received…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Instructional Design for EFL Reading at Senior High Schools from the Perspective of Thinking Quality
Shao, Yanhong; Kang, Shumin – English Language Teaching, 2021
Thinking quality is one of the important parts of the core competencies of English courses at senior high schools in China, indicating the cognitive ability and level of thinking in logical, critical, and innovative aspects. This study attempts to integrate the development of cognitive skills into reading instruction, showing how to immerse…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, High School Students, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Fung, Chak Him; Poon, Kin Keung – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
This study consisted of two stages. In stage A, 38 students were divided randomly into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group received lectures assisted by dynamic geometry software (DGS) and the control group received lectures using chalk and blackboard. The effects of DGS on metacognition and its components were…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Cai, Liman; Wu, Dandan; Chen, Xi; Zhu, Jie; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research findings This study aimed to explore whether the fusion of constructivism and instructivism could be observed in the teaching dialogs during the Engineer Block Building (EBB) activities in Chinese kindergartens. Altogether 20 block building activities about the theme of architecture were videotaped and coded with the "Engineer Design…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Engineering Education
Chen, Feng – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Previous studies in genre-based pedagogy mainly concerned with its teaching effects, few studies involved with students' perceptions and attitudes which is actually playing a role in teaching and learning activities. The present study intends to make some explorations in this aspect. A quasi-experimental study to designed to answer the research…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Zhang, Yi; Chen, Bei-Lei; Ge, Jun; Hung, Cheng-Yu; Mei, Lin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Rubrics can guide teachers to provide effective feedback and students' peer- and self-assessment. This paper examines the effect of rubric use in flipped learning activities on students' learning achievement, metacognitive awareness, and cognitive load through a quasi-experiment. A total of 83 university students were randomly assigned to an…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, Metacognition, Scoring Rubrics