INTERACTIVE LECTURE – COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF TEACHER AND STUDENT

Development of Communicative Competence 1 Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Development of Communicative Competence Through Private and Inner Speech

Teacher Training, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement

We study the effects of various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measure...

Communicative Competence1 Communicative Competence: A Comparison of Two Approaches

This article is a comparison of the Natural Approach and Communicative Language Teaching. Using the Richards and Rodgers’ model for conceptualizing approaches and methods described in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 1986, Cambridge University Press, I compare and contrast these two approaches carefully at the level of approach, design and procedure. At the level of approach, I look...

Studio vs Interactive Lecture Demonstration – Effects on Student Learning

Two delivery methods for a course in Genetics and Evolution were compared using preand post-testing of basic concepts to evaluate the effectiveness of each method. The metric , the gain in learning, was calculated as the ratio of the difference between the post-test and pre-test score divided by the difference between the highest possible score and the pre-test score. The first or studio tea...

The Prosocial Classroom: Teacher Social and Emotional Competence in Relation to Student and Classroom Outcomes