Month: October 2021
Shaping Self-awareness, Introspection and Resilience: Why Language Learners Need Training in Reflective Writing
Committing to language learning is an emotional endeavour (Dewaele, 2015) that requires individuals to make a staggering number of decisions …
The Impact of Maternal Parenting Style on Sibling Relationship: A Transnational Study on Two-child Families of China and the UK
This study, through a survey of 107 two-child families in China and the UK, aimed to explore the differences, similarities, …
L2 WTC and Relatedness in Social Online Classrooms: Findings from a Longitudinal Action Research Project in a Japanese University Classroom
Synchronous, video-mediated online classrooms offer a range of challenges that do not exist in traditional, face-to-face classrooms in terms of …
Enhancing ‘How to Learn’ Skills: Its Impacts on Academic Performance and Students’ Motivation
In the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, remote learning requires students to learn independently to find information and understand …
Teachers’ Perceptions to an Online Lexicon “Ġabra” as a Reference for Adults Learning Maltese as a Foreign Language
The employment of PCs and handheld devices for the access of information has become a standard social expectation. This behaviour …
Parent-Child Dialogic Reading: A Conversation Analytic Case Study
A large body of work has addressed the positive impact of parent-child interactive reading (also referred to as dialogic reading …
Parental Support, Cooperative Learning, and Peer Awareness in Students’ Exposure to School Bullying: Predicting Bullying in China
School bullying negatively affects adolescents at both cognitive and psychological levels. In China, a relatively high prevalence of school bullying …
How the Japanese Intelligentsia of the 19th Century Got Educated Based on Books in the Dutch Language (Rangaku)
This study aims to rectify the perception that the Shogunate (the Japanese government of the 19th century) mainly received know-how …
Reflection in Language Learning: An Institutional Integration Project
Reflection on language learning is when language learners become more aware of their abilities, strategy use, and task performance by …
Sociocultural Issues Experienced by Adults Learning Maltese as a Second Language
The pedagogy of language since time immemorial has majored on the use of pens and other printed materials. However, there …
Impressions of Democracy, Equality, and Justice Among Maltese Teachers in Multicultural Education
The perceptions and attitudes of educators towards multicultural education are strongly correlated to the manner in which multicultural education is …
Storytelling with Multi-media Technologies
Storytelling is considered one of the most effective ways for teaching a foreign language, and it enables learners to build …
Stakeholder Perceptions of Connecting ESP Courses With Graduation Seminar Topics
English as a global language and recent attention to the merits of the integration of language learning with knowledge/content construction …
Disentangling the Saving Puzzle in Aging Japan – Psychological Factors Matter
Lots of empirical studies have concluded that basic life-cycle hypothesis is not convincing and tried to add the supplementary explanation …
Mapping the Musical Resources in Ilocano Language Into the Grade 1 Curriculum for Ilocano Schools
Despite the available multimedia platforms, mother-tongue-based multilingual education teachers in Ilocos province suffer in implementing the subject because of the …
How Do Multilingual Children Feel About Family Language Policy at Home?
Parents of multilingual families often wish their children to acquire a heritage language (e.g., Guardado, 2002). However, would parental language …
The Mediating Role of Primary School Environmental Education in Promoting Children’s Pro-environmental Behavior: A Game Format Experiment
Enhancing children’s pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is crucial for a more sustainable future. To overcome environmental problems, the most effective and …
Encouraging Reflection on Speaking Performance in Class: Findings and Suggestions
This presentation will provide a recount from the beginning stages of a research project which began in September 2018 until …
Enhancing Online Post-secondary Learning Experiences Through Meaningful Interactions in FSL
Interaction and active participation are key elements in any second language classroom (Hiver, P., Al-Hoorie, A. H., & Mercer, S. …
Sophistry, the Language of Narcissism
Narcissism and sophistry appear to be distant areas of human phenomena - the first belongs to the area of clinical …
The Hidden Language Classroom: A Case Study of a Chinese Immigrant Mother’s Using Everyday Objects for Heritage Language Maintenance
Language input and language environment are key factors for immigrant children, who strive to acquire two languages both as their …
Novel Approaches to Developing Student Resilience and Wellbeing in School Settings: Martial Arts and Cooperative Electronic Gaming
Psychological wellbeing and mental health are increasingly recognised as essential for individual health and community productivity (World Health Organisation [WHO], …
Family Caregiving as a Spiritual Experience: Experience of Spirituality of Korean Family Caregivers in Elder Caregiving
This study explored the nature of spirituality of Korean family caregivers who cared for older adults at home and its …
A Model-Based Inquiry Activity Using LEGO to Promote System Thinking of Grade 11 Students on Buffer Solution Topic
System thinking in chemistry education aims to prepare future students who can relate the chemistry knowledge addressing real-world complex phenomenon …
An Appraisal of the Filipino Catholic Devotion to the Black Nazarene in the Light of New Evangelization
Popular devotions are reflections and expressions of the people's faith. They are expressions of how people recognize God in their …
Violence for Self-respect in the Indian Socio-political Context: The Psychological Intricacies Perpetuating Yellow Journalism in Siddhartha Deb’s Surface
This article will read Siddhartha Deb’s novel Surface (2005) to illuminate how an unsuspecting individual becomes prey to yellow journalism. …
Reimagining Support for Japanese Teachers of English
This presentation explicates a nascent research project that aims to understand and support the practical needs of pre-service English teachers …
The Elevation of Luxury: Art Infusion and Artification as Vehicles for Creating Shared Value
Luxury brands have historically benefitted from engagement with the artistic community. There is a robust academic literature on the specific …
Ways People Thrive During a Pandemic: Stories of Growth, Self-prioritization, and Resilience
This study addresses how the Covid-19 pandemic affects our lives, and how the situation may even contribute to well-being and …
Enhanced MELCs-based Curriculum in Reading and Writing Skills in a Blended Pedagogy
Due to COVID-19’s exponential spread, the world has coined the term "New Normal" as it continues to battle this pandemic. …
Liminality in Inclusivity: Faculty Perceptions Towards an Inclusive Educational Community
As Singapore lives with COVID-19, the notion of an inclusive educational community is imperative to enhance the engagement of persons …
Integrating Design Thinking and Community-based Participatory Research to Achieve Environmental Justice for Engineering Education
Communities struggle with dismantling mechanisms perpetuating environmental injustice, even while work to address challenges of injustice continues to receive growing …
An AI-Enable Knowledge Graph and Student’s Agency in Productive Struggle During Problem-Based Learning in Cybersecurity Education
Problem-based learning (PBL) is adapted to support students' learning in cybersecurity courses. However, students frequently lack learner agency and require …
The Effect of Praising and Mutual Trust on Student’s Learning
Research has proven that praising is always considered an effective strategic way to motivate students in the classroom, raise their …
No Bells and Whistles: Technologically Simplified Instruction in Scholarly Reading and Writing
The Scholarly Reading eWriting Intensive was developed by an English language program in a large public university as a rapid …
Language as the Foundation of “Dasein”
Metacognition, together with anthropolinguistics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy, have for years postulated a scientific consideration of the interrelationships between language …
Education and Training for Social Change: Analyzing a Social Welfare Model for Grassroots Development in Bangladesh
The shortage of skilled workers is the major barriers to economic prosperity in Bangladesh. A third of its population falls …
Feedback Practices of School-Based Mentors in the Work Integrated Learning Programme in South Africa
Research has demonstrated that feedback is an essential facet of assessment in the learning environment because it enhances learning. However, …
Relationship Between Self-Perception Towards Ageing and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults
The older adults of the 21st century are experiencing a longer lifespan. This trend is viewed as an achievement as …
From Virtual Space to “Third Space”: Mickey Mouse in Shanghai During the 1930s and 1940s
Mickey Mouse made his Chinese debut in the Shanghai illustrated magazine Liangyou in 1932. Since then, urban audiences in Shanghai …
The Impact of Mindfulness Traits of Elementary School Students on Resilience in Covid-19 Era
In an era of severe epidemic, the trait’s of mindfulness is vital to the performance of students' resilience. The general …
Schubert: The Strange and the Supernatural
This study aims to comprehend better the culture surrounding Romantic aesthetics of fantasy and the uncanny during the nineteenth century …
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Society, Education, and Work: Global Society in the Age of Autonomous Systems
This study compares and contrasts major trends in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and examines the changes that AI …
Teaching and Learning Resilience Through School Gardens
Resilience for children (as well as adults) is the capacity to endure adversity with equanimity, i.e. with the confidence to …
Concept Mapping Strategy to Improve Non-computer Science Students’ Learning Achievements in Logical Database Design
This study aims to investigate the effects of using concept mapping on student’s performance on logical database modeling and to …
Indian Classical Dance Education and its Impact on the Spiritual Intelligence of the Students – An Empirical Research
The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the impact that the period of learning of Indian Classical art …
NipponEthics Stakeholder Model – Understanding How Japanese Companies Manage Key Stakeholders
Business concept is gradually changing on a global level, shifting from a chiefly profit focused viewpoint to a more stakeholder …
Classification and Effective Utilization of Feedback
The research aims to establish a system by which students can provide and receive feedback and utilize it effectively. As …
Early Constructions of the English Dative Alternation: A Corpus-Based Study
This study aims to investigate the early constructions of the dative alternation produced by four L1 English-speaking children and focuses …
Lessons Learned From Teaching Japanese for Medical Purposes to International Students
This work shows the lessons learned from the online course on Basic Medical Japanese for international students conducted between May …