Month: December 2020
The Landscape of One Breast: Empowering Breast Cancer Survivors through Developing a Transdisciplinary Intervention Framework in a Jiangmen Breast Cancer Hospital in China
Women with Breast Cancer (WBC) in China need to pay much effort into resisting stigma, they suffer from bodily disfigurement …
Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among European Children and Young People
Scholars have perceived the COVID-19 pandemic as a generational experience that shapes children and young people’s lives in individually experienced …
Designing Online Language Courses: Lessons Learned from Teaching Vietnamese Language and Culture for Japanese Learners
This presentation shows the lessons learned after several courses on "Basic Vietnamese language and culture" targeting Japanese university students and …
Improved Fluency through the Timed-Pair-Practice Framework
Determining proficiency of students by speed measures alone is insufficient. By using a triad of composite measures, two cohorts of …
Psychometric Properties of Chinese Translated Body Compassion Scale
According to the structure of self-concept, physical is considered as one of the elements affecting a person’s evolvement of self. …
The Creative Writing Workshop as a Space
Creative writing workshops have proliferated in writing classrooms and in organised activities usually by academic institutions. The first of its …
Solo Female Thai Backpackers Crossing Borders and Transgressing Boundaries: Myths, Stereotypes and Their Fluid and Multiple Identities
"Solo-backpacking" has gained its momentum and popularity among (urban) Thai women nowadays. A gendered nature of this solo-travel has attracted …
Media Diplomacy: Zeng Jize’s Strategic Engagement of Western Newspapers
For decades, scholarship on late 19th century Sino-west interaction has been greatly influenced by the impact-response paradigm while little is …
Academic Performance and Attitude of the 21st-Century Learners on Mathematics in the Modern World
Attitude towards mathematics has played an important role in the mathematics teaching and learning processes and its effect on the …
The Role of Software in Computer Science Majors’ Career Choice
The shortage of highly-skilled ICT (information and communications technology) workers remains a serious and global concern. This paper reports on …
Analysing Politeness Changes when Speaking Indonesian and English: A Case Study of Indonesian-English Multilingual
Being fluent in English as a foreign language in Indonesia is not as easy as learning the language itself since …
To Explore the Relationship Between Socio-demographic Factors and Online Social Capital Among Undergraduate Students in Hong Kong
Along with the development of information technology, the concept of social capital has been extended to the online perspective. Major …
Traveling Cultural Heritage in the Age of TikTok
The case of Hongyadong from China shows that TikTok as a digitally mediated form of judging, not only differentiates itself …
The Hispanic Heritage in the Cebuano Harana
A study of the harana, a genre of Cebuano folk music, involves reflection on the complexity of cultural phenomenon which …
Literature Reviewed: Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program in China
The two literature I have reviewed are both studies of the methadone maintenance treatment program in China, with significant differences …
The Contradictions in Zarathustra’s Character
Thus Spoke Zarathustra' is a controversial philosophical novel due to its many original concepts such as "will to power" and …
Retracing Positive Images of the Black: The Racial Reading of The Walking Dead Through its Adaptations
In contemporary culture, video games, like other media, have played an impactful role towards players’ societal perceptions and influenced their …
New Technologies, Boundless Interactivity in the Digital Era and the Transformation of Newsgathering in Nigeria: Evaluation of Fake News Theory
The emergence of new technologies and associated techniques in the communication industry has led to boundless interactivity across the globe …
Exploration of Self-regulation and Impulsiveness Between Problematic Online Gamers and Non-gamers
Self-regulation refers to the basic skills of attention, which is an advanced level process on conscience and effortful inhibitory control …
The Impact of Digital Interventions with Students at-Risk for Math Difficulty: A Meta-Analysis
Children in the United States continue to underperform in mathematics from the earliest grades and at alarming rates. Furthermore, the …
A Within-Asia Comparison of Anxiety in English Language Classrooms
Anxiety in English language classrooms is often considered as one of the major sources of students’ reticence and shyness, frequently …
Would Longevity Make Us Happier? Examining the U-shape in Happiness
Longevity issues have become an important social concern, since recent studies show that there is no upper limit for human …
Connected Curriculum in Practice: The Experience of Embedding Research Oriented Assessments
This research presents the process and results of embedding the UCL Connected Curriculum into three modules at the UCL School …
Students’ Perspective on Intercultural Service-Learning as Non-medical Volunteers for Foreigners: A Case in Taiwan
In Taiwan’s hospitals, language barriers often create challenges for foreign patients, many of whom come from Southeast Asia. To solve …
Critical Thinking Disposition Among Students of Kasetsart University
This research study aims to investigate the university student’s critical thinking disposition of university students in Thailand. The sample consisted …
Technology Integration: Implication for Teachers’ Professional Development
The technology of today shortly becomes the technology of yesterday in education. The demand for Technology Integration is increasing as …
New Practices in Research: The Effects of the Pandemic in Research Practices of Higher Education
Higher education institutions in Mexico are complex organisms that have encouraged a series of academic practices that, until this date, …
The Influence of Soft & Hard Skills on the Graduates Competence Vocational High School Students
Statistics Indonesia (BPS) released about unemployment in Indonesia in February 2020. The highest open unemployment rate (TPT) occurred in residents …
Personal Branding on Instagram: The Challenges Encountered by Saudi Female Fitness Trainers
In Saudi Arabia, significant investments in fitness field reinforcements were started since the announcement of the 2030 vision. Instagram is …
Enhancing Sociocultural Competence of Second Language Acquisition: Through Multimedia and Films
Multimedia and films are a rich source of cultural references and a perfect avenue to engage students in the current …
First Language Influence and Its Effect on Language Fluency Among HS Students: An Analysis
Linguistic competence constitutes direct knowledge of the target language, hence, this knowledge is tacit and implicit especially among the second …
Investigate the Difficulties of Indonesian Learner During Electronic Portfolio
Normal learning stopped, project delayed, school shut down. The universe seemed to have a halt because of the Novel Coronavirus. …
Improving Adult Lifelong Learning and Distance Learning
The term ‘lifelong learning’ is widely used in education but what does it really mean? Most adults have been busy …
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Mathematics Education
The right knowledge about sustainability must be passed on to raise students' awareness of today's real-world problems by means of …
Mediating Language Learning in Virtual Exchanges: The Role of the Teacher in Institutional Integrated Teletandem
Virtual exchange is an approach to teaching and learning in which groups of learners from different countries work virtually and …
Towards an Extended Mobile Social Network Acceptance Model for the Social Entrepreneurs’ Skill Enhancement
Since Davis (1989) developed the theory of technology acceptance model (TAM) and explained the factors influence users to accept and …