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Hu, Pingying; Zhang, Jiaxiu – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
Concepts of learner autonomy and the self-determination theory provided a theoretical rationale for the action program for learner autonomy. The action program incorporated satisfying learners' basic psychological needs into English Foreign Language (EFL) course education. The action program was implemented for one academic year. Both qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Hao, Ning; Ku, Yixuan; Liu, Meigui; Hu, Yi; Grabner, Roland H.; Fink, Andreas – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
Previous studies revealed inconsistent findings about the effects of cognitively low or high demanding interpolated tasks during incubation period on post-incubation creative performance. To explain this contradiction, two intervention tasks were administered (Reflecting on the generated ideas [RF] and the Word puzzle task [WP]), which are…
Descriptors: Intervention, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
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Liu, Qing; Zhou, Xiaodi; Fu, Danling – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
This article presents two separate but related studies on native-English speaking (NES) instructors' teaching writing practice in Chinese universities. One study is a case study that explores the teaching practice of three NES instructors' writing instruction in a southern Chinese university as well as students' responses to their practice.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Instruction, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Lee, Yeung Chung; Grace, Marcus – Science Education, 2012
It has been argued that decision making about socioscientific issue (SSIs) necessitates informal reasoning, which involves multiperspective thinking and moral judgment. This study extends the scope of the literature concerning students' reasoning on SSIs to a cross-contextual study by comparing decisions made on avian flu by 12-13-year-old Chinese…
Descriptors: Evidence, Value Judgment, Decision Making, Comparative Analysis