Initiation of student-TA interactions in tutorials

Student initiation of academic interaction and language background: A comparison of NESB and ESB students in tutorials

Student perceptions of participation opportunities in online synchronous tutorials

From a sociocultural constructivist perspective of learning, dialogic interactions between students and tutors support meaning negotiation that leads to knowledge construction. In online educational contexts, interaction between learning parties is largely facilitated by CMC technologies. Most research has focused on asynchronous CMC modes which are held to offer learners an ever-present window...

Student perceptions of tutor skills in problem-based learning tutorials.

OBJECTIVE The problem-based learning (PBL) tutor plays a role that is different from the role of a teacher in a conventional teaching format. In the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates, all students are Arab nationals and tutors are expatriates with different sociocultural backgrounds from the students. This study was designed to investigate how students evaluate tutor...

investigating the translation expectancy norms of iranian college student readership in terms of english fiction in persian

مفهوم هنجار برای اولین بار توسط دانشمندی به نام گیدون توری در اواخر دهه 70 مطرح شد. هنجارها توسط محققان مختلفی طبقه بندی شده اند؛ نوع هنجاری که در این تحقیق مورد بحث است "هنجار انتظارات" است. مطالعات ترجمه یک رشته ی نوپا و مستقل است که هنوز به رشد کامل خود نرسیده و بسیاری از شاخه های آن نیاز به پژوهش دارند. یکی ازاین حوزه ها که نیاز به پژوهش دارند، هنجارهای ترجمه هستند به ویژه هنجارهای انتظارات...

Teachers’ Strategies Used to Foster Teacher-Student and Student-Student Interactions in EFL Conversation Classrooms: A Conversation Analysis Approach

Despite the fact that there are a wide range of strategies used to foster interactions in EFL conversation classrooms, many novice teachers are not aware of them. In view of this problem, the current study aimed to identify such strategies commonly used by EFL teachers in conversation classrooms. To this end, fifty sessions of college level conversation classrooms were observed andtheir teacher...