Learning About Ourselves While Learning About Each Other:

Learning about learning rather than about teaching

This paper draws on the experiences of the author during the past fifteen years of working primarily with school, college, university and health librarians, but with occasional forays into the public and special library domains. It is written by an educationalist and teacher trainer with an interest in library development; someone who has never run a library but who has researched into them and...

Learning to reason about other people’s minds

To investigate to what extent people use and acquire complex skills and strategies in the domains of reasoning about others and natural language use, we conducted an experiment in which it was beneficial for participants to have a mental model of their opponent, and to be aware of pragmatic inferences. We found that, although participants did not seem to acquire complex skills during the experi...

Learning with, from and about each other: Outcomes from an interprofessional training unit

The roles of punctuation marks while learning about written numbers

Twenty-three kindergarten and first grade children were asked to articulate the meaning and the need for punctuation marks in a list of numerals showing prices for a list of items. Despite not having been schooled yet formally on the use and roles of numerical punctuation, many children gave similar explanations regarding the purpose of punctuation marks in numerals, including: to separate, to ...

the relationship between iranian efl learners beliefs about rote learning, their use of vocabulary learning strategies and their success in vocabulary learning: a think-aloud protocol study

the purpose of this study was to investigate iranian efl learners’ beliefs about the role of rote learning (rl) in vocabulary learning strategies; besides, the study examined if english proficiency would influence learners’ vocabulary learning strategy use. this study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of rl in efl vocabulary learning by looking at iranian efl learners’ ow...