Month: April 2021
Photography: A Potential Tool for Self-actualization of International Students during Pandemic
The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic since 2020 has resulted in drastic changes on the campus life and limiting social activities. …
Exploring the Intersections of Cultural Performance Practices and Wearable Technology
Humans have gone to great lengths in recent years to augment their bodies with wearable technology using commercial devices such …
University Students’ Perceptions of Social Experiences in Online Learning: A Post-COVID-19 Perspective
Since the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, online learning has become increasingly important as an alternative to face-to-face higher education …
Predictors, Sources of Test Anxiety and Coping Strategies: A Comparative Study of Postgraduate Taught Students in the UK and Saudi Arabia
Test anxiety (TA) is pervasive across cultural boundaries and is related to impaired academic performance and psychological wellbeing. This study …
Competencies of Preschool Teachers in Educating Children With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Along with the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a wave of social distancing, and the activities of many educational institutions became …
“Blended” in the Online Classroom! Technology Acceptance of EFL Students
In the digital era, blended learning (BL) has become a new normal in language education. Students who fail to learn …
A Philosophical and Epistemological Foundation for Social Justice Pedagogy via the Work of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Pierre Bourdieu
Social justice pedagogy has become a fixture in higher education. More and more disciplines in the academy are incorporating the …
Evaluation of Face-to-face and Online Learning for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Courses
Having moved predominantly online with the UK national lockdown of 2020, a comparison was made of two entrepreneurship courses at …
From Compassion Fatigue to Compassion Satisfaction: A Research Among Physicians Specialising in Oncology at the University of Padua
Context: The quality of health workers' professional life includes some expressed or latent metacognition skills related to psycho-emotional stress management, …
Transformational Leadership in Changing Education Systems: Evolving Management Roles and Responsibilities in Educational Institutions
This paper examines the effectiveness of transformational leadership in changing education systems and the rapidly evolving and expanding roles of …
Assessment of Attitude Towards Research
This paper discusses about the attitude of the final year undergraduate students and the post graduate students towards research. The …
The Processes of Educational Communication in Primary Schools Determined by the State of Emergency in the Czech Republic
The paper focuses on the current methods of educational communication in primary schools in the Czech Republic. As a result …
EasyTalk: A Digital Writer’s Workshop for Leichte Sprache (Easy-to-read German)
Leichte Sprache (LS; Easy-to-Read German) is a simplified variety of German characterized by simplified syntactic constructions and a small vocabulary …
Inclusive Foreign Language Assessment in Trying Times: Pre-service Teachers’ Attribution Mechanisms and Their Implications for Inclusive Emergency Remote Teaching
The main goal of foreign language education (FLE) to foster intercultural communicative competence implies the need to include and connect …
Playing through the Pandemic: The Social and Emotional Gratifications of Gaming during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan
While most industries were hit hard during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the global game industry was not …
Transmission of Distress and Urgency Calls – Aeronautical English in Use
With ongoing challenges to the accuracy of aeronautical communications, distress and urgency calls need to be brought into sharper focus. …
Teenpods: Production of Educational Videos as First Step in a Transmedia Educational Project About Positive Youth Development
Teenpods is the name of a Transmedia-Educational-Project (TEP) performed by the Chair Education and adolescence from University of Lleida. This …
A Study of Students’ Engagement on the Zoom-based Synchronous Online Teaching
The outbreak of the COVID-19 created a chaos of global health crisis and campus health. In the Wollongong College Hong …
Implications of Trilingual Education on Pre-service Training in Wales
This paper will focus on innovations in the Welsh education system in light of the introduction of a new curriculum …
Factors Pulling International Students to Japan: A Situation Analysis
Japan has 312,214 international students in May 2019, successfully achieving the 300,000 international students target. This study investigates the factors …
Teaching Practices of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers for Developing the 21st Century Skills and Its Relationship to the Academic Achievement
With the advent of the new century, educators and learners have finally understood and manifested that reasoning is required to …
Hong Kong-based Educators’ Views on Existing Hong Kong Education System: Multicultural or Not?
Hong Kong (a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China) is promoted as Asia's international city. However, it …
Family Language Policy and Immigrant Chinese Children’s Bilingual Development in New Zealand Context
The concept of Family Language Policy (FLP) and the studies on how immigrant families transmit their heritage language to the …
Nursing, Health Technician and Midwifery Students’ Perceptions of Their First Fully Online Learning Experience During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study
This paper examines undergraduate nursing, health technician and midwifery students’ perceptions of their first fully online learning experiences during the …
“Middle American Miserabilism”: Charting the Feel Bad Genre in Recent HBO Mini-series
Miserabilism was originally a term that was used to describe a pessimistic philosophy or a consistently miserable outlook. This pessimistic …
The Consequences of Chaos/Complexity Theory in Adults Learning Maltese as a Second Language
Despite extensive research in second language acquisition (SLA), we are still a long way from understanding what exactly happens in …
The Attitude of Resistance Press Towards Greek Women Who Were Involved With the Enemy
The position of women in Greece as other countries, changed significantly as a result of WW2. The absence of men …
Macro Factors Determining Transition of Vietnamese International Students Mobility
With constant increasing in numbers of students studying abroad, Vietnam is on the way to become one of the largest …
Financial Autonomy of Schools in Kazakhstan: International Comparison and a National Perspective
This paper has relevance for any nation seeking to reform its model of funding through decentralization and a neoliberal agenda …
Letting Students Explore What It Takes to Become a Good Communicator – A Metacognitive Approach to Promote Language Learning
When it comes to teaching speaking skills in a foreign language classroom, instructing grammatical knowledge, building up vocabulary and formulated …
Developing Descriptive Writing Ability by an Online Video Project
Writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) is often regarded as an unpleasant experience by students due to the …
Change Readiness: Preparing for Change in the Age of Disruption
Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) are in a period of immense disruption due to student demographic changes, economic pressures, and …
Assessing Pragmatic Abilities in School-Age Children
This study aims at developing a measure for assessing pragmatic language abilities related to Theory of Mind (ToM) in Greek, …
Fude Master: Japanese Writing Practice M-learning Application Based on Gamification Theory and Its Evaluation With ARCS Model
Foreign students have difficulty in learning Japanese, especially in kanji acquisition. This is caused by the difference in the writing …
Filipino American Identity Development in Something in Between
Identity development is essential in all human lives. Adolescents who are members of ethnic minority groups are seemingly more confused …
Effects of Capstone Design Achievement on Employment: A Case of Industrial & Management Engineering
This study is to analyze the performance of the Capstone Design course and the impact of multiple factors on the …
Teachers as a Source of Support: Perceptions of Parents of Children With ADHD During COVID-19 Distance Learning
This qualitative research, conducted during the COVID-19 distance-learning days, was designed to understand the perceptions of parents of primary-school-age children …
Research on the Learning Experience and Effectiveness of Digital Action Learning on Design Education
Nowadays, learners use digital mobile devices to learn online resources and content at flexible times to obtain the convenience, expediency …
“Fraternal and Sisterly Love”: Observing Disintegration and Resilience in the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Shirley
The Brontës in 1845 were a tight-knit community in Haworth of three grown-up sisters and a brother – Charlotte, Emily, …
Using a Collaborative Modern Board Game to Characterise Problem-solving Experiences in Physiotherapy Students
New paradigms for curriculums designing in health professions defend the inclusion of structured methodologies to train comprehensive skills for problem-solving. …