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Frey, Nancy; Fisher, Douglas; Hattie, John – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
This article provides an organizational review of content literacy instructional strategies to forward a claim that some strategies work better for surface learning, whereas others are more effective for deep learning and still others for transfer learning. The authors argue that the failure to adopt content literacy strategies by disciplinary…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies
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Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; González Alonso, Jorge; Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2020
The present systematic review examines what factors determine when, how and to what extent previous linguistic experience (from the first language, second language or both languages) affects the initial stages and beyond of adult third language (L3) acquisition. In doing so, we address what a bird's eye view of the data tells us regarding…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Prior Learning, Native Language, Adults
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Rey, Günter Daniel; Beege, Maik; Nebel, Steve; Wirzberger, Maria; Schmitt, Tobias H.; Schneider, Sascha – Educational Psychology Review, 2019
The segmenting effect states that people learn better when multimedia instructions are presented in (meaningful and coherent) learner-paced segments, rather than as continuous units. This meta-analysis contains 56 investigations including 88 pairwise comparisons and reveals a significant segmenting effect with small to medium effects for retention…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, Recall (Psychology)
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Zhang, Zheng; Nagle, Joelle; McKishnie, Bethany; Lin, Zhen; Li, Wanjing – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2019
This systematic review is built on the seminal work by the New London Group in 1996. Few endeavours have synthesized findings of empirical studies pertaining to the effects and challenges of multiliteracies practices in various schooling and geographical contexts. Through a five-point Likert scale and a deductive and inductive thematic analysis,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Girardet, Céline – Review of Education, 2018
Considering the crucial goals dependent on classroom management, such as creating a classroom environment conducive to student learning and facilitating student engagement and motivation, it is an important skill for teachers to learn. Accordingly, this literature review aims at untangling the factors influencing the evolution of teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices
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Saxena, Anoop – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Teachers in many schools struggle to integrate Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as part of their teaching practice. Among the issues faced by teachers when attempting to integrate ICT into their classrooms are gaps in ICT knowledge and skills, lack of training and inadequate support and scaffolding. Other issues include inability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Planning, Technology Integration, Technological Literacy
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Guo, Jian-Peng; Pang, Ming Fai; Yang, Ling-Yan; Ding, Yi – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Although researchers have demonstrated that studying multiple examples is more effective than studying one example to facilitate learning, the principles found in the literature for designing multiple examples remain ambiguous. This paper reviews variation theory research on example design which sheds light on unclear issues regarding the effects…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Word Recognition, Generalization
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Sikkema, Seth E.; Sauerwein, Joshua A. – Journal of International Education in Business, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review whether culture affects accounting students' learning processes to identify practical guidance for accounting educators facing a culturally diverse classroom. In spite of a significant literature thread in accounting education on student learning, relatively, little emphasis has been placed on…
Descriptors: Accounting, Cognitive Style, Cultural Influences, Literature Reviews
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Colby S. Hall – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Skill in generating inferences predicts reading comprehension for students in the elementary and intermediate grades even after taking into account word reading, vocabulary knowledge, and cognitive ability (Cain et al., "Journal of Educational Psychology, 96," 671-81, 2004; Kendeou et al., "Journal of Research in Reading," 31,…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
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Ordonez, Bonnie – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2014
Higher education is going through a time of change. The United States federal government and its Department of Education are calling for reform as student debt has increased and the cost of college tuition has risen steadily to unattainable levels. In the next decade, the number of jobs requiring a college degree will increase to 70% of all new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Academic Degrees, Competency Based Education
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Tippett, Christine D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The move from learning science from representations to learning science with representations has many potential and undocumented complexities. This thematic analysis partially explores the trends of representational uses in science instruction, examining 80 research studies on diagram use in science. These studies, published during 2000-2014, were…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Science Education, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
Alamsyah, Aam – Online Submission, 2016
The use of native English story in EFL, which has so far been a source for heated debate among the scholars due to the possible intercultural conflict experienced by the learners and can possibly lead to the learners' confusion during the class, is basically driven by the long gone communicative competence theory, the paradigm which views that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Literary Devices, Second Language Instruction
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Neuenhaus, Nora; Artelt, Cordula; Schneider, Wolfgang – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This review begins by outlining the historical discussion about the relative importance of fostering cross-curricular competencies versus domain-specific prior knowledge as central goals of education. Metacognition and prior knowledge are then introduced as constructs representing these two goals; their development and effects on learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Competence, Metacognition
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Sanseau, Pierre-Yves; Ansart, Sandrine – Journal of International Education Research, 2013
In this paper, the researchers analyse how lifelong learning can be enriched and develop a different perspective based on the experiment involving the accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL) conducted in France at the university level. The French system for the accreditation of prior experiential learning, called Validation des Acquis…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Prior Learning
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Tian, Jing; Low, Graham David – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
Despite extensive discussion on critical thinking (CT) by Chinese students, there are still debates over the question of why Chinese higher education students, when studying abroad, lack (or rather do not demonstrate) CT skills. The main objective of this paper is to explore how far it can be established from the published research literature…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Holistic Approach, Prior Learning, Critical Thinking
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