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Download full textYee, Yoon Lai; Karpudewan, Mageswary – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
The study using quasi experimental design involving 160 pre-university students, randomly assigned into experimental (n=80) and control groups (n=80), revealed science writing heuristics approach improved pre-university students' understanding of energy transfer in ecosystems and ability to produce quality arguments. After controlling the pretest…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Energy
Direct linkWanYusof, Wan Roslina; Kimi, Melody; Wan Zullkiplee, Wan SharifatunHandayani; Zailani, Mohd Alhafiizh; Shahabudin, Mardhiah; Ismail, Abdul Al-Hafiz; Abd. Aziz Abdullah, Sharifah Mona; Ismail, Iswan Nur Ariff; Raja Gopal, Dhana Jay – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Chemistry is one of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects that has been perceived as an unattractive subject among students due to its scientific theories and practices in a laboratory. Practical and scientific writing skills are two crucial components in chemistry courses, including at the Pre-University level,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Content Area Writing, Writing Skills
Balasundram, Nilavathi; Karpudewan, Mageswary – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
A study of transition metals includes studying the physical and chemical properties of first-row d block metals in the Periodic Table. The curriculum on transition metals emphasizes learning the physical and chemical properties and is a lecture-based strategy that is predominately employed by teachers to transfer the knowledge on properties of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Learning Activities, Educational Technology, Brainstorming
Saffari, Narges; Noordin, Shahrina Md; Sivapalan, Subarna; Zahedpisheh, Nahid – International Education Studies, 2017
Mother tongue rhetoric transfer is unavoidable in ESL writings, especially for Iranian ESL learners, since Persian and English language is quite different. The paper discusses the negative transfer of mother tongue rhetoric in Iranian undergraduate ESL learners' writings from the perspectives of choosing rhetorical structure in English and Persian…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Native Language, Rhetoric, Second Language Learning
Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar – Journal of International Students, 2019
Focusing on the perspective of lecturers, this qualitative research investigated the academic reading and writing challenges faced by international English-as-a-foreign language master's students at a Malaysian university. Data was collected through semi-structured, in-depth, one-on-one interviews with 16 lecturers who taught international…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tan, May – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents data from a study examining secondary mathematics teachers' and science teachers' implementation of a language of instruction policy in Malaysia, which made English the medium for mathematics and science instruction. It explores the beliefs of math, science and language teachers, and how these beliefs influence their…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
