All posts by James Alexander Gordon

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Resilience Throughout Books for Young Learners

The global pandemic changed the lives of many adults and children across the globe. As students return to school and …

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Metacognitive Awareness, Motivational Beliefs and Mathematics Performance of Junior High School Students: An Investigation of Mediating Effects

Metacognition and motivational beliefs are crucial components of self-regulated learning. Effective learners are expected to exhibit the ability to plan, …

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A Corpus-based Study of Sexist Language in the Hashtag #everydaysexism on Twitter

This paper examines the Twitter hashtag #everydaysexism as the discourse of sexist language about the digital feminist movement, focusing on …

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Understanding How Experiential Media Are Utilized in the Making of ‘Russia 2018’ and the Upcoming ‘Qatar 2022’ FIFA World Cup

In this qualitative study, we examine how and to what extent Experiential Media (EM) are utilized in pre-game EM contents …

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Goal Setting in the Classroom to Promote Academic and Social-Emotional Growth

Academic growth is a common goal for educators, administrators, and parents. When educators provide opportunities for students to determine appropriate …

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Performative Drawing: Concepts, Processes and Artworks

Abstract: Performative drawing is a contemporary art movement that seems to be gaining worldwide importance over the last decades. An …

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Teacher-Learner Engagement in Online Learning Modality in a Private Catholic School: Towards the Development of Teacher Upskilling Matrix

The CoViD-19 pandemic has put an end to the prevailing ideology underlying the educational system in the Philippines. The use …

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Using Analytics to Select and Track At-Risk Students for Targeted Interventions

The provision of academic support is an institution’s responsibility to ensure students’ chance of attaining academic success. Data is used …

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Mental Health Promoting Communities of Learning

The number of students enrolled in higher education with diverse learning needs is increasing, alongside growing numbers of students taking …

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Cultural Identity and Home in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home

As an estranged Egyptian, Palestinian, and Kuwaiti, Randa Jarrar had a tough upbringing. In her novel, the protagonist ‘Nidali’ somewhat …

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The Development of an Inquiry-based Field Trip Activity to Promote Students’ Positive Perceptions of the Educational Curriculum Course

An inquiry-based field trip activity was designed for graduate students in the science education program to enhance their understandings of …

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Successes and Challenges of a Business Process Redesign and Centralization of Faculty Management Systems and Process into a Faculty Portal

University of Arizona Global Campus’s (UAGC) Academic Operations teams have spearheaded a complete Business Process Redesign (BPR) of the institution’s …

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Revisiting External Stakeholders’ Role in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosure: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

An increasing number of countries have implemented mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure to encourage listed companies in apprising …

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Analyzing the Eco-Compensation for Ecosystem Services in Fisheries and Solar Power Symbiosis Areas

To achieve the objective of building a "nonnuclear home" by 2025, the government of Taiwan has been actively developing the …

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Redesigning Outcomes-Based Mechanical Engineering Course Syllabus Using the Constructive Alignment Approach

This study is part of a continuing effort to improve Mechanical Engineering education by examining the existing course syllabus in …

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A Collaborative Online International Learning Case Study Between the University of Hawai’i Hilo and Hong Kong Baptist University

With continuous globalization and technological improvements, today’s marketers need to effectively design marketing strategies for global markets that companies of …

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Meeting Generation Z Learning Expectations in Quest International University

Students currently studying in higher learning institutions are part of Generation Z known as the Gen Zers. Available literature on …

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Technology Adoption in Graduate Education: Basis for Faculty Development Plan

With the rapid growth of the technological environment and the current COVID-19 epidemic, the way we interact and conduct business …

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Course Design for Tunnel Engineering with Complexity under Consideration

In the recent years, Chinese infrastructure and civil buildings are of increasing features in type, quantity and dimension. The high …

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The Impact of an Increase in Minimum Wage in Vietnam

There are few studies on the implementation and effects of a minimum wage increase on low- wage workers in Vietnam. …

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Thinking Outside the Zoom Box: Discovering Resilience, Innovation, and Creating Valuable Experiences for Ensembles During the Pandemic

This article provides readers with insights and strategies to tackle challenges of various remote and in-person large ensemble rehearsal situations, …

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When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be Learning Online: Emic Reflections of Teacher – Student Resilience within an Australian Tertiary Pathways Landscape

COVID-19 signalled an end to the free movement of international students to Australian tertiary institutions necessitating a paradigm shift away …

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Mapping the Research Field of Moodle: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Bibliographic Coupling

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the shift from conventional education online. In supporting this new norm, learning management …

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Psychometric Properties – The Construction of Pancasila Value Questionnaire

Indonesia has five core values - Spirituality, Humanity, Nationality, Democracy, and Social Justice - that root in moral values and …

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Enhancing the Efficacy of Identifying Visual Patterns and Novel ‎Anomalies of Cyber-Defenders With 3D Immersive VR

The mission of a Cyber Security Officer (CSO) during a cyberattack is to identify anomalies in visual signals and to …

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Why Don’t You Play the Game? Evaluating the Use of Gamification in an Undergraduate Finance Course

The board game Monopoly is used as a gamification tool in an undergraduate finance course in a private business school …

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Roars and Recuts: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and American Versions of Godzilla 1954-1962

This presentation explains how various American distribution companies rebranded the first three Japanese films about Godzilla. I propose these examples …

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Readiness Towards Online Learning of Filipino Healthcare Students in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

The present pandemic crisis poses a challenge to Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) compelling stakeholders such as school administration, faculty members, …

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On Adjusting the Order of Teaching Units in Elementary School Mathematics Textbooks With LSA Results

In our country, many elementary school children go to tuition classes after school. Mathematics is one of the most frequently …

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The Development and Preliminary Evaluation of Learners’ Flow State of an Online Decision-making Detective Game

Information integration and decisions-making competence have gained much attention not only many fields. Assisting learners to have efficient logical reasoning …

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Bridging Social and Environmental Sustainability: Instigating Solidarity through An Eco-friendly Public Art

Although there is a plethora of what sustainability is, approaches tend to address its dimensions separately. The concept of sustainable …

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An Investigation to Examine Factors Influencing University Students’ Behavioral Intention Towards the Acceptance of Brightspace LMS: Using SEM Approach

Students' perceived usefulness (PU) and ease of use (PEOU) of Brightspace by D2L Learning Management System were evaluated (LMS). Brightspace, …

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Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Using Digital Games for Teaching and Learning

Digital game-based learning has evolved into a novel mode of instruction that increases both students' and teachers' motivation to acquire …

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Re-considering History and Narrative Through the Short Factual Film The Archive (UK 2018)

In this paper I will consider tensions and dialogues between historical enquiry and narrative story-telling, using the case study of …

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An Outreach Program Transforming Lives in Africa and Preparing Future African Business Leaders

The African Scholarship Cohort (ASC) program was launched in 2016. This program is a joint venture with the University of …

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Keeping Small Changes Faculty made During COVID that had a Big Impact on Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person classes at our campus. Over 4,000 courses were transitioned online in 4 days. Faculty …

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400 Million Students in Asia Looking for Quality Online Degree Programs

There are an estimated 400 million early and mid-career professionals in China that are interested in getting a graduate degree. …

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English Language Learning Anxiety in East Asian Classrooms

Second language anxiety is a known barrier to English language learning for tertiary students in East Asia. This study compares …

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Charitable Giving and Educational Possibilities: An Examination of Student Presentations on Charitable Giving Experiences in Japan

This paper examines Japanese student participation in charitable giving and how students reflect their giving experiences regarding social and civic …

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Designing A Multiple Submission Policy Supporting Mastery Learning for a Design Thinking Class in a Purely Online Learning Environment

Mastery learning is defined as an approach where students are equipped with complex skills required in the VUCA world instead …

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Measuring Environmental Consciousness and Green Consumerism of College Students in the Philippines

This study intends to find out and describe the measure consumer attitudes regarding environmental consciousness and green consumerism of college …

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Recruiting and Managing Volunteers for Academic Libraries: Tips and Suggestions for Running Successful Programs

Unlike public libraries, academic libraries are not normally seen as organizations that make utilization of volunteers to help. Yet, many …

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Strides in Mathematics and Science: An Introspective Look on the First SHS Graduates’ Perceived Self-efficacy

Abstract: The K to 12 Curriculum has changed the landscape of the Philippine Education System. Before and after its initial …

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Remote Teaching and Learning: Resilience and Academic Voices

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been driven to rethink, redesign, and respond overnight in the COVID-19 pandemic. The instantaneous closure …

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An Assessment of Mothers’ Perception of Fathers’ Involvement in Digital Teaching and Learning During the Lockdown

Lockdown measures due to COVID-19 did not only foster digital teaching and learning but also influence family bonding. Hence, while …

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Integrated Culture in Language Teaching

For years, scholars have searched remedies to the inadequate treatment of the role of Culture in Foreign Language Education. On …

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A Tool to Assess the Quality of Self-learning Modules (SLMS) for the ‘New Normal’ in Education Using the Best-worst Method

In this paper, a tool to assess the quality of self-learning modules (SLMs) was developed using the Best Worst Method …

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Reconstruction of Colonial Experience of Cinema Culture under Indigenous Governance Policy in Taiwan of the Japanese Colonial Period

In early times of the Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwan, in order to effectively control the Indigenous peoples and develop …

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Transdisciplinary Development of a Framework for Co-Creation With People Living With Dementia

When aiming for built environments and systems that foster resiliency and resources, one of the most crucial aspects of design …

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Sexual Communication in Heterosexual and Non-Heterosexual Young Adults: Seeking the Importance of Perceived Social Support

Many people still feel uneasy to talk about sex and sexuality as they are sensitive and still much stigmatized topics. …

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Representation of Korean Cultural Flow in the West During COVID-19: The Case of BTS

Amidst the closing of national borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Korean pop culture flow continues to transcend boundaries with …

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(En)Gendering Colonial Masculinities in Rabindranath Tagore’s Novels

Colonial India of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period of monumental changes. The nation’s tryst with …

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Constructing a Learning-oriented Self-assessment Model of C-E Translation

The Overall Plan for Deepening the Reform of Education Evaluation in the New Era (hereinafter referred to as The Overall …

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Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Taiwan’s Art Education

COVID-19 has caused a global pandemic crisis. The pandemic presented society with numerous changes and issues due to the shift …

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Building Cultural Wealth Through Natural Mentorships: Five Latinx Gang-Affiliated Youth Share Their Stories of Resilience

This presentation explores the tensions and conflicting perspectives of 20 community leaders, five youth mentees, and three mentors living in …

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The Many Faces of Affect: A Multimodal Analysis of Boys Love (BL) Manga Covers

The unconventional complexity of Boys Love (BL) manga as a social practice in which women create and consume homoerotic fiction …

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The Prevalence and Impact of the Maltreatment of Child Laborers in Developing Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol

Background: Children working in the rural agricultural and domestic workforce are more prone to maltreatment than children in any other …

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Performing Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the Global Indian: Analysis of How the Celebrity Memoir ‘Fits In’

Memoirs are narratives presenting the lives, emotions, and experiences of authors from their own perspective. Celebrity memoirs, while promising disclosure …

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Using the Apos Perspective in Analyzing Students’ Responses to Talk-Aloud Test on the Definite Integral

The study was primarily undertaken to describe the nature of the students’ conceptual understanding of the definite integral and related …

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Maltese as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Intercultural Competence

This study sought to understand how teachers of Maltese as a foreign language (MFL) develop intercultural competence by exploring the …

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Parents and Their Voices Outside the Classroom: Perceiving Freedom in Education

Education is perceived in different ways depending on various factors. Many parents and students alike go through the process in …

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Exploring the Effects of a YouTube-Style Video Making Task in Online English Communication Courses

This study investigated the effects of a YouTube-style video making task in an English communication course with a soft CLIL …

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Research on Intensive Development Mechanism of Land Use in Small and Medium-sized Cities in Western China Based on “the Yangtze River Conservation” Strategy

As a crucial national strategy of Chinese national ecological civilization construction, “the Yangtze-River Conservation” aims to achieve the overall planning …

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A Practical Framework Towards Open Government “Moving Beyond Openness and the Forward-looking Walkways to Open Collaborations”

Open Government is nowadays a popular concept for public administrators and policymakers. Nevertheless, the applications on this are still varied …

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Adult Learners’ Perspectives on Distance Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has demanded distance learning as an alternative to conventional classroom learning methods. The study’s aim was to …

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The Rise in Television Production Incentives in the United States and Worldwide

There was a time when most scripted television production in the United States was confined to a small radius around …

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Exploring the Projected Identities of Officers in the New Zealand “New Cops” Police Recruitment Campaign

Over the years, research into the New Zealand (NZ) police force has uncovered that there is an underrepresentation of women …

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A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Chinese Empty Nest Couples on Their Role Change

Purpose In family life cycle theory, each developmental stage means a crucial transition to individual, marriage, and family. However, when …

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The Background and Influence of Gender Inequity in Music Textbooks, and the Direction of Future Music Textbooks

Textbooks are fundamental resources for students in schools regardless of the level of education since students tend to learn countless …

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An Innovative Method for Water Resources Carrying Capacity Evaluation: A Case Study of Qingjiang River Basin

The protection of water resources ecological environment is one of the most important task in watershed in China. The evaluation …

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Rural Culture Preservation in Rural Tourism Development in Suburban Villages of Large Cities in China: Case Studies of Nanjing

In the context of rapid urbanization, many suburban villages in China have started the tourism-orient transformation by virtue of supporting …

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Understanding ESG: Its Increasing Awareness, Financial and Sectoral Importance, and Its Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The paper reviewed the existing literature on the financial and sectoral importance of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). Given …

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Kissing Scenes in the Representation of Family in Post-war Japanese Films

Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse are well-known Japanese filmmakers who depict the “everyday life” (nichijo in Japanese) of family in …

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Concept of Satogaeri Shussan in Japanese Childbirth Rituals: From the Perspective of Contemporary Japanese Women

This paper will study the current trend of Satogaeri-Shussan, a traditional Japanese childbirth custom, when the pregnant woman customarily returns …

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Project Strand and the Level of Performance of Grade 10 Students in the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

This study aimed to improve the level of mastery of the Grade 10 students of Santiago City National High School …

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Applying a Book Read Aloud and Leveraging It with Storyline Online: A Case Study of Indonesian Preservice Teachers

This study departed from an understanding that one aspect in literacy teacher preparation is to make explicit personal beliefs of …

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Legal Protection of the Millennial Generation Against the Issue of Junk Food During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The millennial generation as the nation's next generation needs safe food consumption and does not endanger their health and soul, …

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The Educational Values of E-Commerce Information Technology for the Law Protection of Citizens

In Indonesia, the development of e-commerce is increasing along with the increasing number of internet and social media users. The …

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Conceptual Metaphor in Koike Yuriko’s Election Rhetoric

The present study, as a case study, is analyzing conceptual metaphors in 21 (twenty-one) speeches/interviews from Ms. Koike Yuriko, a …

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Learning Effectiveness of Primary School Children in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

COVID-19 has an impact on the unpreparedness of the community and the government, especially in improving the quality of children's …

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Analysis of the Feeling Image of Internet Media Advertising

The study explores people’s feeling image of internet media advertising. Nowadays, YouTube is the most popular online video platform and …

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Determinants of Emergency Remote Online Learning Satisfaction During a Pandemic

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caused a major disruption to tertiary education around the world. With very little warning, university faculty …

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In Pursuit of Latvian-Lithuanian Federation: Jonas Šliūpas in Hawaii

The collapse of the tsarist regime in the Russian Empire was a window of opportunity to seize independence for the …

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The Exchange of Men in Mary Chin’s ‘The Woman in Kenzo’

The Woman in Kenzo is a Hong Kong popular fiction written by Mary Chin. It was first serialized in City …

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Managing the Barriers to Online Learning: Towards a Framework for a Resilient and Inclusive Virtual Classroom

This paper identifies the barriers to online learning face by the students and explores the strategies they employ to manage …

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A Blended and Interactive Online Learning Courseware Enhances Bioethics Learning in Medical Education

We will discuss an interactive, multifunctional e-learning Courseware that we developed, which strongly bridges the gap between art, bioethics and …

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Resilience in the Face of an Epidemic: W. S. Maugham’s the Painted Veil and Its Film Adaptations

William Somerset Maugham’s classical novel The Painted Veil (1924) and its three Hollywood adaptations (1934, 1957, 2006) explore a marital …

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Droids and Peasants: Akira Kurosawa’s Thematic Influence on the Star Wars Saga

Following the international success of Rashomon (1950) and Seven Samurai (1954), Akira Kurosawa’s films came to exemplify Japanese cinema to …

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Japanese Kawaii Culture and Hello Kitty as an Identity Marker for Asian-American Women

This thesis examines the character of Hello Kitty, from its creation, to its enduring cultural presence in Japan. In particular, …

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The Use of Different Strategies by Writers in Integrated Writing Assessment

In recent years, there has been an accelerating trend towards using integrated writing tasks (IWT) in second language (L2) writing …

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The Accessibility of Web-based Lessons During the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this age of content digitalization, equal access to web-based learning resources is important as it contributes to offering all …

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Art and Self-expression on Social Media: The Recreation of the Historical Value During the Pandemic State in 2020

In this paper I discuss from an ethical and aesthetical perspective how a specific account on Instagram has changed the …

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Literary Reception and Translation of Cantonese Opera From the Pedagogical Perspective

Cantonese opera has been a treasurable art in Hong Kong. Several attempts were made to translate the opera scripts into …

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Nepalese EFL Teachers’ Perception and Practices of Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction (DI) is a pedagogical premise that provides benefits, such as meeting diverse learner needs, accommodating students with varying …

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Website Advertisement: Examining the Effect of Interactivity and Curiosity on Consumers’ Cognitive Absorption and Knowledge Acquisition

One of the goals of effective advertising is to ensure not only attracting the target consumers’ attention, but also engenders …

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Bridging Global and Local Education During the COVID-19 Era

Over the last several decades rapid globalization has strongly influenced most nation’s economies, cultures, and societies. Educational institutions, and especially …

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Disease Selects its Victims: Inequality in Falling Ill to Infectious Disease in Bleak House

Though unnamed, the infectious disease in Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53) is definitely smallpox. The fever, delirium, blindness, and scars that …

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Investigating the Impact of Acquiring Collocation and Lexical Bundles on Improving Language Proficiency of First Year College Students

This presentation introduces the outcome of a study that investigated the impact of teaching collocation & lexical bundles on increasing …

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Blended Learning is the Future of Education

Online Learning is part of Blended learning and is a learning technique in which use of both ordinary teaching and …

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Differences as a Source of Creativity: Friendship Between Wang Hui and Yun Shouping

The biography of Wang Hui (1632-1717), a famous seventeenth-century landscapist in China, has been written many times over. While the …

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Feedback: What It Is and How to Use It Effectively in a Digital World

The COVID-19 pandemic presented us the challenge of simultaneously moving towards hybrid and blended teaching provision, and designing assessments that, …

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Synoptic and Authentic Assessments: Moving Away From Traditional Assessments to Integrate the Development of Transferable Skills

Using traditional forms of assessment (e.g. exams and essays) does not fit with a programme that aims to have a …

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Do You Trust Me? A Systematic Literature Review on Student-teacher Trust Relationships and School Identification

Trust between a student and a teacher and school identification are described in scientific research as focal points of learning, …

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Culture and Human Resource Management: Understanding Communication in the Ages of Globalization

This paper will examine the international management of culture and human resources communication. The various movements of human resources and …

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A Critical Review of Environmental Education for Sustainable Development Goals, UNCRC and Child-Friendly Schools

Global warming and other acts of environmental destruction have significant consequences for both the social and economic sectors. The protection …

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Levelling the Playing Field: A Case Study on the Benefits of Integrating Student Feedback Through Fluid Course Development

A challenge in teaching and course planning is striking the balance between the skills and knowledge students need to learn …

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No City for Fatal Women: Gender, Power, and Noir Convention in Marvel’s Jessica Jones

This paper aims to analyze both the employment and subversion of traditional noir convention in the web television series Jessica …

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Ethno-cinematographic Rhizomes: Examples From the Independent Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Anocha Suwichakornpong

We propose a conceptual framework of filmic analysis, the "ethno-cinematographic rhizome", as a parallel and convergent vehicle of audiovisual artistic …

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The Impacts of the Anti-COVID Measures Introduced in the Czech Republic and Spain in the Context of Preschool Education

The text presents a part of a broader research study carried out at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc …

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Learning through Teaching: Reciprocal Peer Teaching in Language Education

This study discusses pedagogical effectiveness of reciprocal peer teaching in language education by putting students at the centre of the …

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Developing High School Students’ STEM Competencies Through a Sports-based Educational Program

Sports is one of the significant drivers capable of fostering cognitive and scholastic skills in the young generation. Its' potential …

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Exploring Blockchain Technology and its Usefulness in Education

Blockchain Technology has been known to most People pertaining to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Blockchain has been now around for …

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A Comparative Study of Motivations in the Learning of East Asian Languages

Understanding learner motivations for studying a foreign language has long been recognized as an important factor in providing effective language …

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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. …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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“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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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“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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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“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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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Masked Intimacy as New Dating Culture: The Cultural Identity and Gaze in Masked Dating During Post-COVID-19 in Hong Kong and Taiwan

While the world is getting into the post-COVID19 era, the social structure has been reconstructed in many forms, particularly shifting …

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How to Create a Supportive Learning Environment in Mathematics Classes – An Example from a Norwegian Lower Secondary School Class

Mathematics is an important subject in school, however, many students find this subject very challenging. Some even dread mathematics as …

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Making Students Engaged in Improving Their English Writing Skills – A Case-Study from a Norwegian Upper Secondary School

Research has shown that Norwegian upper secondary school students struggle with various aspects of writing English texts as required in …

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Developing Socially Inclusive Practices in Chilean Higher Education Classrooms Through Participatory Action Research

Using a Participatory Action Research approach, my research will attempt to create inclusive classroom practices within a higher education classroom …

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Investigating the Impact of Factors Associated With Student Academic Achievement and Expectations Through the Ecosystemic Perspective in the Greek Context

In this proposal, Bronfenbrenner's theory (Brofenbrenner,1970; 1979; Brofenbrenner & Crouter, 1983; Brofenbrenner & Morris, 1998; Brofenbrenner & Evans, 2000) will …

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Serious Game Design and Integration in English Phonology and Pronunciation Teaching

Interest in using games to impart knowledge has grown tremendously over the past few years. Following a pedagogical shift toward …

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Perceived Tasks of Quality Assurance and Its Impact on the Teaching-Learning Process among Deans and Faculty

Quality assurance systems of schools are put in place to ensure that optimum education are provided by institutions responsible for …

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News Sharing via Social Media in UAE: An Explanatory Study

Digital media lower the threshold for sharing news since anyone can post links, comment on stories and even create their …

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Secondary ESL Teachers’ Beliefs, Strategies, and Experiences in Teaching Vocabulary

The importance of vocabulary in language learning cannot be ignored, due to the significance that it brings into the core …

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ASEAN Regionalism and Cross-Border Research of Philippine Higher Education: The Case of the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus

Applying the New Regionalism Approach evinces the exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the processes underlying the Association of Southeast Asian …

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The Role of Soft Power Along the Current Silk Road

The Silk Routes have long been a passage for exchange of goods and commodities as well as the exchange of …

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Exploring the Effect of Pull Factors on Recreational Needs in Heritage Tourism

Attracting travelers and preserving heritage are important issues in heritage tourism because several heritage sites have failed to attract travelers. …

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Gender differences in language about Feminism: Results from Sentiment Analysis and Use of Emojis on Twitter

Social networks, such as Twitter with its around 192 million active users per day, are increasingly changing the way how …

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The Observation of Gender Stereotyping in Music Instruments in 2021, and the Process of Musical Instrument Selections of Children

In 2021, a research team in the music and music education department at Teachers College at Columbia University conducted an …

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“There Is Always the Other Side, Always”: Women’s Voice and Identity in Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Kanafani’s Umm Saad

Published in the 1960s, Ghassan Kanafani’s Umm Saad and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea portray a gendered image of women …

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Teaching Aptitude of the Teachers

This paper discusses about the teaching aptitude of teachers teaching at different levels from primary school to graduate level. This …

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Assessing College Students’ Readiness for Online Learning

Advancements in technology and pedagogy with respect to distance education have highlighted the need for higher education institutions to adapt …

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The Changing Stakeholder Roles, Responsibilities and Expectations in Sustainable Modern Education

Most of the stakeholders of education, teachers, students, parents, governments, regulators, policymakers, parliamentarians are puzzled about the way out, of …

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Imitation and Self-imitation Practice on L2 Pronunciation Progress

The major aim of the current study is to investigate the outcomes of computer-assisted L2 pronunciation training to verify if …

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A Blended and Interactive Online Learning Courseware for Bridging Art, Bioethics, and Medicine

We will discuss an interactive, multifunctional e-learning Courseware that we developed, which strongly bridges the gap between art, bioethics and …

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Effective Revising Instruction for Struggling Writers

Revising is a critical part of the writing process (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1986). Expert writers tend to make global text …

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Retranslating Shakespeare in Romeo X Juliet

The reproduction of renowned western literary works in the artistic forms typical of Eastern cultures has always provided a basis …

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Facts, Fiction, Propaganda? An Analysis of Chinese Belt and Road Discourses

At the Second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing, Xi Jinping described the “new silk road” as a …

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Forest Shamans: The Sacred Tree and Narratives of the Folk History

This paper examines the oral narratives of female shamans and people involved in their religious practices in modern Japan. Narratives …

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Reading Kenji Miyazawa after 3.11: Region, Utopia, and Resilience

Interpretations of Miyazawa Kenji's work have gone through several iterations since his death: from virtual obscurity he was recovered as …

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Reading Habits, Feminism and Views About Feminism in India

Culture changes from time to time, both men and women are affected by the cultural change in many ways, women …

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Reflective Practice and Teaching Postgraduate Counselling Students

In the fields of counselling and psychology, reflective practice is a process where we critically analyse our actions with the …

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BRANEN and BRANES Corpora

This paper presents two learner corpora built to investigate anaphora: the Brazilian Learners of Anaphora in English (BRANEN) and the …

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An Investigation into Student Writers’ Improvements on English Article Usages Across Different Learning Modes

Most digital educational games have been developed to facilitate second/foreign language learners’ vocabulary acquisition (Hung, Yang, Hwang, Chu, & Wang, …

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At the Intersection of Technology and Teaching: The Critical Role of Educators in Implementing Technology Solutions

Educators are critical for the successful implementation of any technology. Acrobatiq by VitalSource can use data to demonstrate the dramatic …

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Design Thinking in AI Systems Design for Engineering Courses

Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes one of the essential courses that all students should learn regardless their disciplines. In this work, …

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Parental Perspectives on Distance Learning during Class Suspension: A Study from the Hong Kong Early Childhood Education Sector

Since the first class suspension, announced in Feb 2020 due to the prevalence of Covid-19, many schools, including all kindergartens, …

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A Maid in the U.S. House: Architecture, Occupied Japan, and Tokyo Joe

This paper aims to shed light on the hitherto understudied relations between Japanese women and architecture in the postwar Hollywood …

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Existential Mobility, Nostalgia and Narration: Unwrapping a family journal’s account on escape from Japanese air raids in Burma in the years 1941-1942

"The 20th century even more than any age before is the age of the refugee" and simultaneously works on migration …

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Gendered Robots: The Impact of Visual Design on Robots’ Gender Perception

With the rise of gendered innovations, the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has begun to pay more attention to gender …

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Strategies of Integration: Challenges and Possibilities in the Online Teaching of Music During the Pandemic

The pandemic crisis has ushered a new era in the teaching of music. The suddenness of the crisis and the …

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The Topsy-Turvy World of the University Classroom

This paper will review how the Global Pandemic starting in 2020 has affected classes at a typical Japanese university. Initially, …

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The Silk Roads, 300 BCE to 1700 CE: Connecting the World for Two Millennia

The trade networks of the Silk Roads offered an astonishing array of intellectual and cultural influences, which, through the exchange …

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International Circulation of Newspaper Novels: British Empire, Japan, and the Yubin Hochi Shimbun

Japanese newspaper novels emerged as a genre in the latter half of the 19th century. In 1886, the Yubin Hochi …

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Cultural Formation of the Expo in Japan: The Case of Producer Shinya Izumi

The Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970 was the first Expo to be held in Japan and in Asia. The planners …

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Do You Believe In Magic? Exploring the Cultural Boundaries of Magical Thinking

Magical thinking has been a topic of interest in the social sciences (Muchow, 1928; Piaget, 1969; Berenbaum, Boden, and Baker, …

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Resilience of La Rose En Vie: Recovering from Upheaval through a Transphenomenology of Spirit on the Basis of the Arts and Humanities’

During the pandemic the arts and humanities have often been underestimated, usually considered marginal to other more pressing matters, or …

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Application of Comparative Law Methods in Teaching Legal English to Law Students in Russia

A major challenge inherent in a course of legal English taught to students outside the common law tradition lies in …

‘Climate Fiction Narratives’: A Study of Maja Lunde’s Novels – The History of Bees and The End of the Ocean

Climate fiction (Cli-fi) is a genre that is gaining momentum over the last decade due to the proclivity in the …

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Children’s Motivation for Digital Media Use

This paper aims to explore motivations for digital media use among Croatian children aged 4 to 14 years, from the …