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Hu, Chunyu – English Language Teaching, 2015
Growth is a concept of particular interest for economic discourse. This paper sets out to explore a small corpus of economic growth, which consists of articles from "The Economist". The corpus software used in this study is a web-based tool Wmatrix, an automatic tagging software able to assign semantic field (domain) tags, and to permit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Economic Development
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Ponnuswamy, Indra; Manohar, Hansa Lysander – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In this paper, an adapted version of the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) was employed to investigate the perception of academic staff on learning organization culture in Indian higher education institutions. The questionnaire was sent to 700 faculty members of different universities using a non-probability purposive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, College Faculty
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Eranki, Kiran L. N.; Moudgalya, Kannan M. – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
In this work, we study the effectiveness of a method called Spoken Tutorial, which is a candidate technique for self-learning. The performance of college students who self-learned Java through the Spoken Tutorial method is found to be better than that of conventional learners. Although the method evaluated in this work helps both genders, females…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Blended Learning, Independent Study
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Ahmed, Tamim; Hanif, Maria – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study is intended to investigate student's achievement capability among two families i.e. Low and High income families and designed for primary level learners. A Reading, Arithmetic and Writing (RAW) Achievement test that was developed as a part of another research study (Tamim Ahmed Khan, 2015) was adopted for this study. Both English medium…
Descriptors: Low Income, Performance Based Assessment, Elementary School Students, Achievement Tests
Sivaram, R. T.; Ramar, R. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2014
The present experimental study was undertaken with three objectives in view, (i) to identify students with language learning disabilities (ii) to develop CAI software to teach LD students through computer-assisted instruction and (iii) to measure the effectiveness of CAI with special reference to LD students. Two matched groups of LD students were…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Courseware
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Singaravelu, G. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2013
The present study enlightens the impact of Learner- Oriented-Virtual Learning in enriching knowledge in Environmental Education at primary level.To achieve the expected competency in Biodiversity, various approaches were adopted in the class room transaction which were not fruitful. Hence the researcher practiced the Learner-Oriented-Virtual…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Biodiversity
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Gokuladas, V. K. – Career Development International, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify how undergraduate engineering students differ in their perception about software services companies in India based on variables like gender, locations of the college and branches of engineering. Design/methodology/approach: Data obtained from 560 undergraduate engineering students who had the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Industry, Form Classes (Languages), Career Choice
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Patel, K. K.; Vij, S. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2012
The inability to navigate independently and interact with the wider world is one of the most significant handicaps that can be caused by blindness, second only to the inability to communicate through reading and writing. Many difficulties are encountered when visually impaired people (VIP) need to visit new and unknown places. Current speech or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Simulated Environment
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Ramesh, R.; Sumathi, B. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2010
English is a language, which is spoken by numerous people across the world. It has acquired a prominent place in meeting the communicational needs of the people. Grammar is a set of rules that helps the people to use the language better. In schools, the teachers of English are considered as the most important factor in making the study of English…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bhavana, A. R. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2010
The National Council for Social studies defines Social sciences as the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence". At the elementary school level, social studies generally focuses on the local community and family. By middle and high school level, the social studies curriculum becomes more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Social Sciences, Pretests Posttests