Month: October 2020
Long-term Home Care Communication With Dementia Elders in Taiwan: A Focus on Nonverbal Communication Strategies
The population of older people living with dementia in Taiwan is growing dramatically. To enable dementia elders to age at …
Plan-Do-Review-Share-Happy (Plandoresh) as a Development Strategy for Critical Thinking of Vocational School Students
The learning process and traditional teaching materials include activities that require memory and memorization. Most students are trained to follow …
The Impact of the Art Educational System in China
This session will focus on the pedagogy of the effects of the 2018 Chinese Art education System and compares it …
Gap Design as a New Tool for Learning and Assessment
The attempt was to stimulate positive provocation in learners to think and create alternative approaches to effectively deal with real-life …
Old Age Homes in India: An Insider and Outsider Perspective
Initially, Old Age Homes (OAHs) emerged in India as a form of shelter for the destitute older people. However, drastic …
Trilingual Preschool Children’s Cognitive Understanding of Mouth Action Verbs in Chinese, English and Malay
This paper explores how Malaysian Chinese children acquire word concepts in the Chinese language with the “interference” from the English …
Who Will Heal the Wounded Soul of Modernity? Is It Spirituality or the Spiritual Modernity?
The ancient sages of the world had been the real practisers to obtaining the optimal quantum of spirituality for rhythmic …
Sankhya, Theosophy and Wholistic Approach to Reality
The Sankhya doctrine envisages the deepest insight into the working of the human psyche and spirit in the evolutionary Human …
When the Religion Meets the Internet: Focusing on Naga Images Used by Visual Art in Thailand
Naga, the guardian of Triratna, dominates the waters, and is an important cultural image of Thailand, as well as an …
Emergency Remote Teaching a New Curriculum During a Pandemic
The COVID-19 outbreaks worldwide led the academic institutions to entirely cancel face-to-face teaching including laboratories and other learning experiences as …
Why Does Choice Matter? The School and Course Preference of Select High School Students, SY 2007-2008 and SY 2018-2019
This study focused on the course and school preference of select high school students, SY 2007-2008 and SY 2018-2019 and …
A Preliminary Analysis of the Factors Related to Negative Attitudes Toward Elderly People
People generally have negative attitudes toward elderly people that adversely impact their mental health. In this study, we focus on …
Contribution of General and Academic Vocabulary Size to Chinese L2 Learners Academic Speaking Ability
An emerging number of empirical studies have found vocabulary size is closely related to L2 learner’s general speaking ability. However, …
BioTRIZ: Subsidies for Projects in Biomimicry and Design
Biomimicry combines multiple perspectives from the biological sciences to generate creative productions through emulations of nature. In this sense, the …
Sounds and Sippy Cups: New Approaches to Pre-Literacy in Adaptive Game-Based Learning for Young Children
Decades of research from interdisciplinary fields (e.g. developmental psychology/linguistics, cognitive psychology/neuroscience, educational research) have yielded tremendous insights into the process …
The Influence of Immersion Education in China on Students’ English Learning Motivation
This study investigated the motivation of English learning among high school students in China. Half of the 40 participants received …
Communities’ Cultural Capital for Sustainable Community Tourism Development: A Case Study of Charoen Krung Road
This research aims to study the knowledge factors and sustainable community tourism development in the area along the Chao Phraya …
Healthy Lifestyle Education in the CLIL Classroom
Research has shown that poor health can be associated with lower academic achievement and poor class attendance. Teachers report improvements …
An Exploratory Study of Safe Space in the Arts-Integrated Classroom in India
This study investigates the challenges to implementing the Arts-Integrated Learning approach into existing curricula in India, and the degree and …
Intelligibility of Korean-accented English: Effects of Listener’s Familiarity
The current research examines the Korean-accented English (KoE) intelligibility to give an account of the listener familiarity benefits (Interlanguage speech …
The Wand of Mnemosyne: Sparkles Created on Vocabulary Learning
Language learners are constantly looking for a magic wand to wipe off all the learning pains on memorizing vocabulary. Fortunately, …
Assessment of Thermal Comfort and Microclimate in Urban Street Canyons – A Review of Recent Research
Streets are among the major components of Cities where walkability and livability can be enhanced by creating comfortable environments. But, …
Fostering Learner Autonomy through Personalized Project-Based Learning
Learner autonomy is crucial to the success of foreign language teaching and learning. Although it is defined differently, the essence …
A Study of Student’s Learning Outcomes of the Educational Program Integrating Fashion and SDGs by the U.N. Affiliated Student-driven Organization
This research aims to define the learning outcomes of the educational program, “Cherish, Enjoy, and Develop oneself”, in higher education. …
The Role of Social Media in Health Communication: Implications for Coronavirus Disease
As the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic around the world, which have highlighted the power of social media. The media has …
The Efficacy of Life and Career Skills in the Workplace Preparedness of the Students of Engineering
The astute transformation of employment opportunities in the innovative and digital era pursue employees with updated professional and self-determination skills …
Rethinking Research: Bridging Theory and Practice in Adult Literacy
Low literacy rates in the US are explained in research based on several factors: from literacy programs’ inability to support …
Computer Science Integration With Traditional Science Disciplines
An alarming trend was identified at the presenter’s school (grades 9-12). Few female students and students of color were enrolled …
Development and Integration of Freely Available Technology into Online STEM Courses to Create a Proctored Environment During Exams
The current coronavirus pandemic has left many universities and their instructors in a sudden requirement of online education. For small …
The RESET Framework: Examining Critical Factors in Parent-Child Math Participation
Research has shown that parent-child engagement in math activities has a significant positive impact on children’s mathematics achievement, and that …
Problem-Based Learning Increases STEM Interest for High School Students and Instructors
The goal of Project STEMulate, a National Science Foundation ITEST study (# 1657625), is to develop, implement, and evaluate a …
Action Research on Note-taking Instruction
The importance of note-taking skills for English for academic purposes (EAP) students and teachers is growing due to a rapid …
English for Graduation: The Development of an Innovative Japanese University Program Connecting ESP Courses With Graduation Seminar Topics
The increasing importance of English as a global language as well as the recent attention to the merits of the …
Health Risk Assessment of Heavy-Metal Containing Soil Near Some Auto Service Centers of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The municipal solid waste of coal combustion is one of the main environmental problems in Ulaanbaatar, especially in the area …
Improving Grade 3 Students’ Poetry Writing Skills Through Flipped Model of Instruction
The flipped model of instruction has been the focus of many researchers through the years due to its impact on …
Effective e-Learning for a Global Workforce: Designing with Cultural Competency
Digital transformation has introduced multinational corporations to innovative technologies that provide accessibility to a global workforce. One area of business …
Awareness, Perception and Readiness of Faculty and Staff Towards Remote Educational and Operational Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The sudden transition of face-to-face instruction to remote teaching in the early days of March 2020 created a new prototype …
Dementia Patients as Discursively Constructed in Taiwanese Newspapers: Taking United Daily News Samples as Examples
As the prevalence of dementia continues to rise, improving public awareness of this disease is of growing importance. Newspapers are …
A Review on the Technological Innovation in Traditional Musical Instruments: Methodology, Challenges and Public Acceptance
The rapid development of modern technology has to some extent affected the interest of public toward traditional musical instruments and …
A Review on Information Retrieval in the Historical and Digital Humanities Domain
Digital humanities entail applying computational tools and methods to traditional humanities research. In this paper, we focus on the domain …
Simulation & Apprehension with Digital Dentistry: Is Active Learning Really Needed?
Students’ perspectives on teaching from a small size of fourth year dental students and Internationally Trained Dentists II candidates was …
Environmental and Social Engagement Best Practice to Face Pandemic Circumstance: A Sharing From Vale Indonesia, Sorowako Site
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has broken the normal bonds of human interaction, whether in the personal sphere or in …
Culture and Identity in the Learning of Pragmatics during Study Abroad: A Longitudinal Case Study
This presentation will introduce an on-going PhD research: a longitudinal case study investigating how five Chinese students sojourning in the …
Actual Conditions of Elderly Patients With Neurosurgical Diseases Hospitalized in Saitama Prefecture, Japan-comparison of Length of Stay
Purpose:
To clarify the characteristics of elderly patients with neurosurgical diseases through comparison between long-term hospitalization group and short-term hospitalization …
Online Teaching Readiness of High School Teachers in Special Education
The advent of technology in the 21st century transformed the educational landscape initiating a shift from traditional face-to-face teaching to …
Indigenous Students’ Storywork: Local-to-Global Transformative Learning and Growth
Storywork by 5 Indigenous Canadian post-secondary students/mentees highlights their transformative learning experiences through a local-to-global service learning field school. This …