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Mambrey, Sophia; Schreiber, Nico; Schmiemann, Philipp – Research in Science Education, 2022
Regarding future ecological challenges, it is highly relevant for students to understand the processes within ecosystems and the effects of external influences on their conservation. Since ecosystems are complex, difficulties in learning are often examined from a systems thinking perspective. However, challenges also arise in other areas,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Ecology, Student Attitudes
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Lee, Sungeun; Choi, Bokgiu; Maia, Camilla Cavalcante; Park, Jaewan; Youm, Sang Hoon; Lee, Sangwon – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
With the growing complexity of design technology and the emergence of intelligent design assistance, architectural studio classes are facing a new pedagogical paradigm. The digital literacy of younger generations and availability of scientific simulation have the potential to transform the traditional master-apprentice model. In our experiment, we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Design, Architectural Education, Technological Literacy
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Kristen Michelson; James F. Lee; Mourad Abdennebi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Recent scholarship in multiliteracies-oriented pedagogies has advocated for greater attention to fostering 'textual thinking', understood as forms of literacy that consider the complexities of semiotic choices made by authors, and their underlying meanings, rhetorical purposes, and cultural contexts. This kind of engagement with texts calls upon…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Semiotics
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Fujita, Ryoko – International Journal of Listening, 2022
This study aims to investigate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' use of context information under various noise conditions. The participants were seven Japanese undergraduate students. A noise test adopted from the Speech-Perception-in-Noise (SPIN) test (Kalikow et al., 1977) was used. Four signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions (SNR =…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zayed, Jihan – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2021
In response to the pandemic spread of COVID-19, universities all over the world have shifted to e-teaching. The Department of English, Mustaqbal University, College of Administration and Humanities, Saudi Arabia, used the Microsoft Teams App for teaching all courses in virtual classrooms. However, reading as a receptive skill, was difficult to…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Web Based Instruction, COVID-19
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I, Ji Yeong; Martinez, Ricardo; Dougherty, Barbara – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2020
This study focuses on proportional division, a specific problem type of proportions and proportional relationships, which embeds a part-part-whole relationship. We investigated how students in grades 6 to 9 solved and perceived three proportional division problems. Analysis of the students' performance on the tasks revealed three types of…
Descriptors: Division, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Misconceptions
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Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – rEFLections, 2021
This research investigated what reading strategies Thai college EFL students who were identified as nonproficient readers are aware of and what reading strategies they use. Data were gathered from a questionnaire, think-aloud and interviews. The analysis identified 3 broad categories of 16 reading strategies employed by the nonproficient readers:…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Syntax, Protocol Analysis
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Burkholder, E. W.; Miles, J. K.; Layden, T. J.; Wang, K. D.; Fritz, A. V.; Wieman, C. E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We introduce a template to (i) scaffold the problem solving process for students in the physics 1 course, and (ii) serve as a generic rubric for measuring how expertlike students are in their problem solving. This template is based on empirical studies of the problem solving practices of expert scientists and engineers, unlike most existing…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Rets, Irina; Ilya, Ali – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
Given that the term 'plagiarism' is open to multiple interpretations, resulting in confusion among students and teachers alike, research that investigates the current state of empirical evidence and sheds light on students' ability to define and detect this notion has important pedagogical implications. This study examines undergraduate English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers
Tonks, Stephen M.; Magliano, Joseph P.; Schwartz, John; Kopatich, Ryan D. – Grantee Submission, 2021
In two studies, we explored the associations among situational reading-related competence beliefs and task value, inference strategies, comprehension during reading, and foundational skills in college age students. In Study 1, 93 participants from a community college completed assessments of comprehension and two types of inference strategies…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies, Community Colleges
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Al Qahtani, Abdulkhaleq A. – TESOL International Journal, 2020
The present study reports reading strategies of Arabic L1 EFL college-level learners at three reading ability levels: high, medium, and low. Thirty students were asked to take the reading section of the TOFEL to determine their reading abilities. Then two participants from each level were selected randomly to go through the think-aloud protocol…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Li, Yanjie; Brantmeier, Cindy; Gao, Yanming; Hogrebe, Mark – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
In second language (L2) reading strategy research, two concerns need addressing: (1) the discrepancy in assessing strategy use between written surveys and verbal reports, and (2) the effect of using strategies on readers' comprehension outcomes when different types of comprehension tasks are utilized. The present study addressed these concerns by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Peng, Xiaojuan – English Language Teaching, 2021
In view of the complicated translation cognitive process, the study investigated and compared students' translation process of Chinese Classics through translation thinking path schema. Seventy-six participants learning translation courses based on parallel level in two classes of one Chinese university, some of them trained for four months…
Descriptors: Translation, Protocol Analysis, Video Technology, Poetry
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Mohammed, Peshawa – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate the mental processes university students followed while reading short stories. It also sought to find the common problems in reading and understanding short stories and how linguistic and extralinguistic factors formed those challenges. The total number of the participants was 15 (seven males and eight…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Liu, Shiyu; Lawrenz, Frances – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
This research aimed to investigate the nature of cognitive processes when college students reason about evidence on global climate change (GCC). Twenty-six undergraduate students participated in this qualitative study, where they were interviewed to evaluate competing arguments on key issues related to GCC and discuss their own perspectives.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Climate, Cognitive Processes
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