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Now–a-days teaching in classroom through traditional techniques like lecture and discussion makes the students as passive learners. To activate the minds of the students of various categories (slow, medium and fast learners) effective learning techniques are used in most of corporate educational institutions. The effective teaching and learning techniques in classroom transforms the students from...
This study aimed to examine how student teachers evaluated the effectiveness of their commentaries and formulated effective commentaries through Computer Supported Community of Inquiry (CSCI). An online system was developed in this study to create a CSCI environment, providing a virtual practicum for student teachers to serve as facilitators in scaffolding their students' text revisions by offering...
The research that we conducted seeks to ascertain the contribution of the use of multimedia interactive whiteboard (MIW) in the introduction to reading and writing to students of the 1st grade of the 1st cycle of basic education. The sample was composed by all the students in a class of Basic School, located in Castelo Branco. The objectives that guided our study were to introduce the MIW in an educational...
Dyslexia is a specific reading disability in word recognition, spelling and decoding. Students with Dyslexia require special adjustments to the text and text environment to be able to read better. Current studies have shown that many assistive technologies such as software application and other tools are available in aiding Dyslexia's student in reading. However, websites that support Dyslexia's student...
This paper summarizes techniques, methodologies, and processes used to teach soft skills to electrical and computer engineering students at Lafayette College. A quarter of the curriculum is devoted to broad education, and a substantial portion of the engineering courses including senior design devote adequate time to teaching, assessing, and improving non-technical skills of our graduates. The common...
With development of information technology, it is much easier for people to see wide use of modern information technology in nearly every field. As for linguistic teaching field, multimedia aided instruction(MAI) has been applied frequently in recent years. The author has investigated real condition of its application in some universities, and thus she finds out some advantages and disadvantages of...
This qualitative study explored the socialization process of doctoral students aspiring faculty careers. Using qualitative methods, 20 engineering doctoral students from four Predominately White Research Institutions were interviewed to understand what knowledge and skills students learned about research while working collaboratively with faculty mentors. Findings suggest that by conducting ??problem...
It is widely acknowledged that employers tend to be dissatisfied with the communication skills of new engineering graduates, yet research into employers' expectations has not provided a sufficient foundation for incorporating workplace communication skills into the engineering curriculum. This study seeks to bridge that communication gap. Through focus groups and interviews with software engineers...
Active learning, also known as cooperative learning, is a teaching strategy which can be used to help engineering students learn concepts in typical junior-level communication courses. Students are placed in randomly chosen, mixed ability teams at the start of the course. To encourage group process and team-building skills, students adopt team roles like scribe, timekeeper, leader, & participant...
This dissertation is devoted to discovering the possibilities of utilizing computer mediated communication (CMC) as an instructional tool in English writing and the practical ways to address affective factors in non-English major students' writing with the help of CMC tool - Weblog applied in this study. The specific research questions addressed in this study were: 1. To what extent does Weblog address...
Through the popularity of technology, technology has revolutionized the way of teaching English writing. Research has shown that Web-based programs are beneficial for language learning. Thus, in order to find effective ways to facilitate English writing instruction, the researcher intends to seek supports from Web-based writing program. In the current research, three English writing classes (49 students...
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