Month: January 2022
The Effects of Mindfulness on Adolescents With Special Needs’ Readiness for Learning
Special needs educators, anecdotally, feedback that students demonstrated adverse learning behaviours and attitudes towards academic learning by adolescent age, compared …
Documentary Made in China: Introduction to Censorship and Media Policies
Censorship in the Chinese film and TV industry implemented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is fairly straightforward. Its main …
A Case for the Bicycle: How Cycling Can Promote Equality
The purpose of this paper is to explore how cycling enhances health and quality among minority groups. We see examples …
Creating Brand Identity in Museums, the Troy Museum
The Troy Museum was founded in the ancient city of Troy, which is included on the UNESCO world heritage list. …
Preparing Students for Taking the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE): The Design of an Online Self-paced Courseware and Evaluation
Preparing Students for Taking the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE): The Design of an Online Self-paced Courseware and Evaluation After years …
The Use of Technology to Overcome Transitional Challenges of First Year Students From Face-to-Face to Online
Universities around the world and South Africa in particular have been involuntary forced to transit from face-to-face to online learning …
Online Learning Perceptions and Online Learning Self-efficacy: Do Students’ Characteristics and Access to Technology Matter?
While online learning has become the delivery mode of choice to facilitate flexible or distance learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, …
Practical Teaching in Times of a Pandemic
This communication seeks to reflect on teaching, particularly graphic design in a time of pandemic (covid-19). The challenges that were …
Fundamentals of Arnis Self-learning Module: Experts’ Validation and Learners’ Feedback
Arnis is a national sport, and learning about it is an excellent way to foster patriotism among students and teachers. …
Developing Language and 21st C Skills Through Problem-Based Learning
Students at the American University in Cairo are expected to be able to work on group projects and produce high …
Gender, Race & Identity: An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Representation in the Movie Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
The aim of this thesis is to deploy key identity structures that are mainly gender and race. These constructs intersect …
Content Value Analysis of Taiwan Social Issues Advertising Design Which Using AR
In the past, most of the methods to publicize social issues were Graphic Poster Design or TV advertisements. However, with …
The Emergence and Nature of Student-generated Questions in Virtual and Face-to-Face Secondary Science Classes
Questioning is a crucial part of scientific inquiry and meaningful learning of science. Questions asked by students help them to …
The Role of Design: A Humanitarian Approach and an Opportunity to Prepare Students for the Real Working World
This study aims to contextualise and describe a pedagogical practice developed in the Academic curriculum at Lusófona University of Porto …
Teacher-Targeted Bullying by Secondary School Students
The aim of our study was to gain insights into the teachers ́ targeted bullying from the perspective of teacher …
Higher Education and Graduates’ Unemployability in Nigeria: The Policy Implication
The deficient possession of relevant employability skills that have rendered many graduates unemployable in Nigeria has been a subject of …
Musical Composition: Nora Overture for Big Band Ensemble
This article is part of the creative project name “Musical Composition: Nora Overture for Big Band Ensemble”. The objective of …
Indonesia’s Elimination of Sexual Violence Bill: A Framing Analysis of Coverage by Foreign Online Media
Indonesia has been experiencing an increase in the number of sexual violence cases and this number has spiked even more …
Interrelation Between Working Memory & Consciousness Consequent SLA
It has been agreed about the general consensus regarding working memory that it is extensively involved in goal-directed behaviors retained …
Coping Up With Online Learning During the Pandemic: Challenges for Rural Students in Bangladesh
Around 38 million students were affected due to the COVID 19 related closure in Bangladesh. Students from rural areas have …
Assessment of Self-Directed Learning Readiness Among Undergraduates of Teacher Education in Vietnam
This study aimed to evaluate levels of self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) among preservice teacher education undergraduates in Vietnam. The study …
New Revolutions in the Arts, Humanities and Education; Past, Paris 2022 and Future
The Covid-19 pandemic is one of those humongous events that places the whole of humanity into uncharted waters, paralysing and …
Delivery Formats, Course Persistence, and Completion Rate: A Comparison of Online, Face to Face (F2F), and Blended Developmental Courses
The mixed results on the relationship between delivery methods and students; final grades in English, math, and reading developmental courses …
A Corpus-based Study of Evaluative Language in Leading Articles in British Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers
In the UK, newspapers do more than just spread the news; they influence readers by entertaining and exasperating them. To …
Prevalence of Associated Factors of Disability Among Older Adults With Hypertension in Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review
Background: The prevalence of chronic disease and disability is expected to increase when age increases. This study aims to investigate …
The Rising Importance of Soft Skills for IT-Students: Working Online in Agile Globally Distributed Teams During the Pandemic
During the current pandemic, globally distributed software development teams have had to adapt their communication strategies. IT-students will need to …
The Effects of the Concept-mapping Method on International Students’ Learning and Perceptions
There is concern over international students’ low academic achievement at the college level. Due to language challenges and cultural differences, …
Preparedness of Health Facilities to Provide Ischemic Heart Disease and Stroke Management to the Growing Elderly Population Living in Bangladesh
Global populations are ageing, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are growing fast. In Bangladesh, Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) especially, Ischaemic Heart Disease …
An Exploration of Middle School Students’ Experiences of Mindfulness Training in an International School Environment
The following study explores middle school students' experiences of mindfulness training within an international school environment in The Netherlands. A …
Parenting Self-Perception During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Are There the Differences Between the Full-Time Working Mothers, Flexible-Time Working Mothers, and Housewives on It?
Covid-19 Pandemic had brought various changes in human life, including in education and work. During the pandemic, students underwent a …
Towards Successful Aging and Well-being in Later Life: Lay Perspectives From Chinese Elders
The notion of successful aging (SA) indicates elders could sustain physical health and socially active during the aging process, and …
Effectiveness of School-based Education in Improving Cervical Cancer Prevention Among Female Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Background
Cervical cancer education in schools can reach a significant number of adolescents. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined whether …
Can Virtual Tours be Really Experienced? Meaningful Experience and Perceived Authenticity in Online Tours
COVID-19 crises have transformed our society, and a new normal standard has been required in every aspect, including the tourism …
Hospital to Home and Community Experiences of Discharged Adult Psychiatric Patients: A Phenomenological Study
Transition experiences of psychiatric patients are crucial in their recovery, and may or may not lead to psychiatric re-hospitalization. In …
Reliving the Memory: The Disenfranchised Grief, Guilt, and Meaning-making of Filipino Bereaved Pet Owners
Companion animals have become a source of social and emotional support, thereby fulfilling some unmet attachment needs of their owners. …
Inside the Criminal’s Mind: An Investigation of the Factors that Lead to Criminal Behavior and the Motives of Convicted Criminals
With the prevalence of crimes in the society, various researches about the origins of criminal behavior were already conducted. Yet, …
We Love to Hate ‘Emily in Paris’ Because We Love to Hate Ourselves: American Female Viewer’s Ambivalence to “Emily”
The Netflix show "Emily in Paris", has generated tremendous media buzz over the fact that viewers supposedly love to watch …
Japanese Students’ Personal Requirements for Interaction in English With Foreign Students, Examined by Free Description
The aim of this study is to determine which factors (such as motivation, interest, language ability or context) lead Japanese …
Music Therapy Clinical Trials in Asia and Around the Globe
Music therapy has become more common globally as nonpharmacological treatment options for memory loss, pain management, reduction of behavioral and …
Lexical and Non-lexical Processing Among Arabic-English Speaking Children
This study investigated the strength of lexical and non-lexical processing among Arabic-English speaking children, in two writing systems that vary …
The Nautical Significance of India-Japan Relationship
With the Indo-Pacific region gaining traction in the geopolitical dimension of the current global political theatre, India and Japan with …
Online Learning Design and Policies on Education in Indonesia During COVID-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic impacts each sector of life around the world, including the education sector, namely changes in the implementation …
Professional Peer Review and Value in Academic Writing: Implications for EAP Course Design
For academics and professional researchers, peer review is an accepted element of their working practice. Regular submission to journals (predominantly …
Sociocultural Differences in Email-Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Metadiscourse in Chinese and English Request Emails
This study examines how metadiscourse is manipulated to build rhetorical structures and emphasize interpersonal connections in emails written by native …
Understanding the Lived Experiences Towards Online Learning During the Pandemic
Since the COVID-19 outbreak has come leading the face-to-face classes to be suspended, online learning has started to become a …
Decoding Everyday Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia
A central problem in examining multiple insecurities in Southeast Asia is at what level of analysis. Besides the more obvious …
Resistance in the Transnational Sinophone Mediascape: A Textual Analysis of Namewee’s YouTube Music Video Fragile and its Fan Discourse
With China’s pervasive internet censorship within its borders, the global Sinophone mediascape outside of China has constructed an important site …
Change in Attitudes Toward English by Japanese Learners of English: Through ELF Interactions in a Distance Learning Course With a Taiwanese University
The purpose of this study is to examine how effectively Japanese learners of English (JLEs), as ELF users, engaged in …
Personality Traits, Motivation and Performance of Employees in a Pharmaceutical Company in the Philippines: Basis for Performance Improvement Plan
This descriptive correlational design study examined the relationship between employees' personality traits, motivation, and performance of employees in a pharmaceutical …
Blaan Lingen: Folk Music as a Depiction of Culture and Expression of Traditional Values
Oral traditions such as myths, legends, folktales, riddles, and folk music embody significant information about the culture from which they …
Mental Stress in The Streaming World: Decision Fatigue in Leisure Time Among Young Adults in Dubai
The phenomenon of decision fatigue has been long explored in workplace and other taskrelated domains of human life. However, the …
Understanding Wabi and Sabi in the Context of Japanese Aesthetics
Whether consciously or not, aesthetics in Japan often takes precedence over other cultural elements. In fact, the whole idea of …
The Differences of Online Dating Profiles Between Gay Adults of Younger and Older Age Ranges
Recently, the use of online dating appears to be an increasingly common and effective means for single gay adults to …
Shindo Jujo’s Island of Treasures: A Rebel Myth for Okinawa
In his novel Island of Treasures (Takarajima) (2017), Shindo Junjo creates a mythical world of youthful Robin-Hood heroes, the "senka …
Education During and After the Pandemic: Students’ Integrity Issues in Online Tests and Exams
Even though normal schooling has resumed after long restrictions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the new norm of online …
Faceless Blogging and Gatewatching on Social Media: A Study of Selected Ghanaian Blog Pages on Instagram
The advent of the internet and social media has brought about a change in news production and dissemination. There has …
Revealing Test Answer Behavior Patterns Through Quartile Analysis
Characterizing a dataset by the mean value homogenizes the data to lose the integrity of the highs and lows, however, …
Resilience Embodied in Conversations and Creativity During a Covid Context
Many working-class, disabled, mature women face great adversity in the academy in their (in)ability to play the game. Lacking the …
Unveiling the Pragmatics of Maguindanaon Greetings
This study examines the pragmatics of Maguindanaon greetings using the S.P.E.A.K.I.N.G. tools of situation, participants, ends, speech acts, key, instrumentality, …
Dealing with Mathematics Anxiety in This Time of COVID-19
Mathematics anxiety is a problem that continues to plague students. As the pandemic has forced us all to the online …
Science Graduate Employability and English Language Proficiency: Findings from a Malaysian Public University
This study investigated the relationship between the employability of science graduates of a public university in Malaysia and their English …
Leveraging Malleable Intrapersonal Competencies to Close Achievement Gaps
While institutions have been investing in efforts to close achievement gaps, they remain. With a growing emphasis on data analytics …
Learning and Teaching TESOL Online During the Pandemic – Experiences From Chinese International Students and Their Lecturer in New Zealand
This study focuses on challenges for students and lecturers adapting to online teaching and learning during the pandemic. The project …
Facilitating Students’ Transition to Higher Education: Interlinking Engagement Analytics and Digital Mediation
Higher Education Institutions’ approach to monitoring, managing and maintaining student engagement is evolving, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic and aligned …
The Chinese Interior during the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.)
This article explores and examines the Chinese interior during the Han dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.), that is, the depiction of …
Will the Bow-Pulling Model Be Repeated? – Analysis of Cases of Reverse Culture Shock During Two Overseas Stays
The bow-pulling model assumes selective adaptation of culture, and assumes a reactionary psychological reaction that causes reverse culture shock after …
Language Immersion in the USA: Characteristics, Challenges, and Recommendations Related to Teacher Education
Language immersion is a unique form of education as it combines content-based academic instruction, inter-cultural communication, and second language education. …
Is Precarious Work for Middle-aged and Elderly People Divided by Gender in Korea?
Typical retirement age in Korea is 51 for men and 48 for women, but this age is still too young …
Creative Learning Environment: A Collaborative Study Defining the Characteristics and the Adaptable Prototype
In teaching-oriented academic institutions, the focus is often mainly on teaching requirements rather than research components. Frequently, faculty have limited …
Diversified Career Path of Legislators in New Democracies: South Korea’s Case
This study asks how the legislators’ occupational backgrounds have been changed in post-democratization South Korea. While previous studies on legislators’ …
Between Law and Justice: Self-Defense Principle in Late Qing China Penal Cases
This article, through the analysis of selected judicial cases of the late Qing dynasty, explores the existence of the self-defense …
Best Practices for Teaching a Course on Culture for EFL Undergraduate Students in Japan and Abroad: Based on Literature Review From 2016 to 2021
This literature review examined academic papers written in Japanese and English on how courses on culture for EFL (i.e., English …
Best Practices for Graduation Thesis Instruction for Undergraduate Students: Comparing and Contrasting Experiences of Thesis Writing in Japan and Abroad
The purpose of this paper is to provide readers best practices for undergraduate thesis instruction in Japan and abroad through …
A Study of Electroencephalography (EEG) and Lego Wedo 2.0 on the Attention of First Grade Special Needs Students
The purpose of the study was to assess the Attention of first-grade special needs students by using EEG and Lego …
A Case Study of Caregivers’ Social Skills Use in Practice: Interviews and an Observation About Interactions With Care Recipients
This research is a qualitative psychological study of caregivers. To gain knowledge about social skills caregivers use to form good …
Who Let the Dogs in’? Exploring the Potential for Developing Dog Projects With Older Prisoners
This original and ground-breaking interdisciplinary paper explores the potential for developing dog-based projects for older prisoners, drawing on perspectives from …
A Computer-based Interactive Program for Teaching the Psychological Theory of Lev Vygotsky
The idea of "intelligent machines" helping in teaching humans is not new. In 1954, B.F. Skinner proposed the first modern …
The Role of Resilience as a Protective Factor in COVID-19 Lockdown Fatigue
Introduction: The effect of COVID-19 across the globe has been colossal. Though critical physical symptoms are experienced by patients, the …
The Psychological Role of Orientation Sessions in the Learning Activity of Students Taking Distance Online Courses
In modern distance programs, orientation sessions (OS) are usually aimed at providing students with technical assistance in mastering new information …
The Impact of Cultural Development of Disabled Identity on Special Education Systems in the US and Japan: A Comparative Analysis
This paper presents a comparative case study of the history of special education in the United States and Japan along …
Teacher’s Twitter Levels of Participation and Depth of Reflection on Pedagogical Practices
Teachers need to be connected to other teachers for their professional development and some do this through social media sharing …
State-of-the-art of CLIL Research Using Bibliometric Approach: 2005-2021
The increasing globalization and internationalization has had major impact in elevating the importance of English language education. Notably, amongst the …
Scientific Production in Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis
Language education is a key component in international education. However, language instructors faced numerous challenges in moving classes online during …
Remote Experiment for Electrical Engineering
Handson experience is mandatory for engineering courses such as electrical power system, and power electronics. However, the laboratory is not …
Music Composition: Nora Suite for Saxophone Quartet
This research article aims to create musical works that combine concepts techniques and methods between western and eastern music. The …
Marriage Equality: Social Movement for Same-Sex Marriage in Thailand
This research attempts to answer how Anjaree and other social movement groups can mobilize resource in pushing the law and …
Cultivating Kindness among Preschoolers: Student-Centered Instructional Modules for Teachers
The preschool period is a significant stage of self-construction in a child’s life. This is the time when they make …