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Chen, Kate Tzu-Ching – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
The academic success of non-native English speaker (NNES) graduate students greatly relies on their ability to read and comprehend English journal articles (EJA). The purpose of this study was to identify NNES graduate students' comprehension difficulties and reading strategies when reading EJA. In addition, the study explored how the relationship…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Wu, Jia-Fen – Multicultural Education Review, 2017
In a pluralistic society, learning about foreign cultures is an important goal in the kind of multi-cultural education that will lead to cultural competency. This study adopted a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to examine the effectiveness of the multi-cultural picture books on: (1) students' achieving awareness towards cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, College Students, Picture Books
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Wang, Shengmei – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
This study (n = 52) examined mobile assisted in-class course using collaborative learning theories over an 18-week semester in a college level course. A self-evaluation survey containing 50 closed-ended items with two open-ended questions about participants' collaboration experience through the mobile techs was conducted during the last week of…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Electronic Learning, Social Networks, Cooperative Learning
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Yang, Wenhsien – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
In 2011, Taiwan's Ministry of Education conducted a national-scale appraisal of 92 CLIL programmes. However, we lack an effective model for examining by precisely how much improvement in the quality of the CLIL programmes will rise as a consequence of the increased language proficiency and the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge. To gain greater…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Tsai, Pei-Ying; Chang, Wen-Hua; Chen, Sufen; Chang, Huey-Por – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2014
Profiling adolescent students' intentional use of science news reports can inform science news-infused instruction. This study reports on the development and validation of a Views of Science News Instruction Questionnaire (VSNIQ) designed to explore Grade 7 (12-13 years old) students' views of reasoning with respect to science news. Forty items…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Intention
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Chien, Chin-Wen – Education 3-13, 2014
Elementary school English activation curriculum, an additional two culture classes, has been implemented only in New Taipei City in Taiwan starting from 2010, so only a few studies focus on it. This is a case study of an English teacher's integration of a school's features into the activation curriculum in a rural elementary school. This study…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum, Integrated Activities, Case Studies
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Jang, Syh-Jong; Tsai, Meng-Fang; Chen, Ho-Yuan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
The current study assessed and compared university students' perceptions' of a novice and an experienced physics instructor's Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). Two college physics instructors and 116 students voluntarily participated in this study. The research model comprised three workshops, mid-term and final evaluations and instructor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Student Attitudes