Month: February 2020
Attitudinal Evaluation of Accents from the Expanding Circle: A Saudi Perspective
This study quantitively examines attitudes held by Saudis towards three accents from the Expanding Circle (Kachru 1985, 1992) varieties of …
(Re)thinking English Teacher Education in Brazil: Undergraduate Students and Teacher Educators’ Perspectives on Multiliteracies and English as a Lingua Franca
Globalization has challenged distribution and understanding of knowledge causing instability and uncertainty for teacher education. This paper presents the results …
Human Resource Policy in Leading Russian Universities: An Assembly Model
The presentation discusses the development of human resources management in leading Russian universities during the last 5 years. It demonstrates …
Investigation of the Learning Effects of Presentation-style Lessons and the Basic Social Skills of Students With Spontaneous Beat Gestures
The purpose of this study is outlined in the following two points. First, an investigation into the effects of presentation …
A Comparative Study of Chinese and Japanese Female Characters Portrayed in Hirokazu Koreeda’s and Ang Lee’s Family Films
China and Japan are both in the circle of Confucian culture. Under the influence of Confucian culture, the basic unit …
Spaced Repetition (SR) for Long-term Vocabulary Retention: When Exactly to Repeat?
One of the most recurrent topics in education is the fact that learners tend to forget what they have learned …
The Role of Voluntary Communities in Tackling Environmental Problem in Samarinda, Indonesia
The emergence of voluntary communities unavoidably influences the government’s work of way to solve problems. They mostly afford funds by …
Tectonics and Technical Language | Development of and Research on a Language-sensitive Learning Design on Plate Tectonics
State of research & aims| Results of international studies such as PISA and PIRLS show that there is a significant …
The Republic of Heaven: A Return to Mother Earth and Ancient Pagan Religions in ‘His Dark Materials’
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is primarily regarded as an attack on religion and is thought to specifically discredit …
Development of an Automated Drinking System Using Microcontroller for Broiler Production
Although the broiler industry is one of the fastest growing industry in the Philippines, it still lacks the process of …
The Habitat Differentiation for the Fairness
I am a developmentally disabled person. In this paper, we challenge considering formalizing the relationship between the fairness in econometric …
Development of a STEM Curriculum and Evaluating Its Effects on Promoting the Technology Literacy and Self-determination of Students With Disabilities
The purpose of this study was to develop a STEM curriculum integrated with educational robotics and the concept of self-determination …
Relationship Between Factors and Graduation Rates for Student Success in the U.S. Colleges
Graduation rates are essential indicators of students' success and the indicators defined as the percentage of a school's first-time, first-year …
Success in an English Language Learning Class: Students’ Beliefs, Emotions and Experiences in a Communicative Language Teaching Context
The aim of this paper is to analyse the beliefs, emotions and experiences of English language learners in order to …
The Birth of Smart Teachers: A Genealogical Examination of the Newest Teacher Subjectivity on the Matter of Technology Use
This study employs Foucauldian concept of “genealogy” to explore rules, norms and knowledge of popular educational discourses about ‘SMART education’ …
Classroom Diversity and Thoughtful Engagement
This presentation will discuss the Theory of Japanese Uniqueness 「Nihonjinron」which explores peculiarities of Japanese culture, psyche and behavior in the …
Gathering the Story: Documentary Film Research and Data Collection
The documentary film genre is a powerful and influential information and communication medium that educates, “embraces difference,” inspires, and motivates …
Telling Our Own Stories: A Phenomenological Study of Sub-Saharan African Immigrants
Many immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa consider emigration towards the West as an opportunity for educational and economic self-fulfillment. Their needs …
The Guidelines for Development of Agricultural Areas Based on Concepts from Participatory Ecological Agriculture to Solve Environmental Problems
This project is to design and develop agricultural areas in accordance with the concept of participatory agriculture ecology to solve …
Sustainable Development Goals at the Heart of Portuguese as a Foreign Language University Classes: Study Cases in Portugal and Spain
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are today a transnational attempt to face a world full of …
Experts and Students Advocate Andragogical Insights in Learning Beyond Pedagogy
Past research indicates that experts with more specialized knowledge criticized educational implementations and curriculum content sharply. Whether the intensity of …
International Tandem Learning: Technological Challenges of Inter-Institutional Projects
It is difficult to dispute that most significant changes in education over the past hundred years have resulted from the …
“The Human Condition” in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
In his essay about two brother-painters, the van Velde brothers, Samuel Beckett presents a view that both of them share …
Pictograms and Japanese Construal in Cognitive Linguistics
Recent scholarship in cognitive linguistics reveals that Japanese speakers prefer subjective construal, while English speakers prefer objective construal. Japanese speakers …
Invention of “Self-Mummified Buddhas” in Japan and Its Historical Significance
Self-mummification is an aesthetic practice in which a monk goes into a hole underground and remains there without food, a …
Japan and Ukraine: Strengthening Friendship and Partnership Ties in the Era of Reiwa
Notwithstanding the fact that Japan and Ukraine are separated by a great geographic distance, the two countries have many things …
Annotation and Practice of Reading: The Tale of Genji and Kakaisho
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, is the most famous Japanese classic novel and the world’s oldest existing novel …
Representation of Spirituality in Elizabeth Gilbert’s (2006) Eat Pray Love and its Reception in a Chinese Context
Elizabeth Gilbert’s (2006) memoir Eat, Pray, Love depicts her journey of self-discovery following a difficult divorce. Her travels consist of …
Family Caregiving, Work-Family Conflicts, and Well-being in Contemporary Japan: Working Men and Women in Middle to Late Adulthood
The rapid aging of the population over the past decades has had several consequences in the lives of Japanese men …
Vietnamese Tertiary EFL Teachers’ Perception Towards Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Critical thinking has been emphasized as one of the paramount thinking skills in the 21st academic curriculum in the world. …
Higher Education and Intercultural Relations: Empowering Indigenous Brazilian Students through Internationalization Programs
Understanding of both good practices and structural barriers that influence the academic experiences of indigenous students in higher education facilitates …
Using Attendance Analytics as a Motivational Tool for First-Year University Students: The Live Engagement and Attendance Project (LEAP)
The process of transitioning into a third-level learning environment can present cognitive, behavioural and emotional challenges for first-year students (Chipchase …
Teaching At-Risk Students Using UDL: Cure or Curse?
At-risk students exist in every college classroom. As of 2019, at-risk college student categories in the United States included indigenous …
A Visual System for Grammar Instruction in Foreign Language Learning
Complementary to verbal explanations, visual techniques are often implemented in grammar instruction to help learners process information. Highlighting using typograhic …
Academic Staff Personal Variables and Utilization of ICT Resources for Research, Teaching and Records Management in Higher Education
There is currently an academic debate among researchers regarding the influence of age and gender as factors influencing ICT utilisation …
Application of Adult Learning Principles to High Risk Equipment Operations Training
This paper considers the application of adult learning principles in training learners to operate high-risk equipment such that they develop …
System Innovations in Design for Aging – A Research-driven Multi-stakeholder Approach for Transforming Health Systems
In many cases design approaches use a systemic point of view in order to gain insights that inform the process …
Advantages and Limitations of Older-adult Volunteers in Conducting a Well-being Course as ‘Facilitators’ in the Provision of a University’s Open Studies in Japan
As the proportion of those aged 65 and over has sharply risen in recent years, how to make use of …
Being Unreasonable – How to Teach Clinical Reasoning Amongst Medical Students
A poster examining the challenges and common themes across teaching clinical reasoning as well as the difficulties of engaging students …