Modern approaches to teaching ESP at University

Teaching Programming Fundamentals to Modern University Students

In this paper we investigate how teaching programming to the modern generation of students, “digital natives” who grew up with Google and Facebook and do not know the world before the Internet, can be improved through a highly visual game-like approach. Many programming teachers report that modern programming students have short attention span, lack concentration and have poor motivation to lea...

Modern approaches to teaching and learning anatomy.

Challenges in Teaching ESP at Medical Universities of Iran from ESP Stakeholders' Perspectives

The status of teaching ESP has been studied both internationally and locally. However, it seems that the challenges of teaching ESP in medical universities of Iran have not been studiedappropriately. The main objective of the present study was to explore the main challenges of teaching ESP in medical universities of Iran. Due to the nature of the study, a qualitative res earch design (Phenomeno...

Modern University Teaching Meaningful Reconstruction: Combining Teaching with Research

For universities, teaching is the prerequisite and basis of research, and it promotes the increasing improvement of scientific research level; the scientific research is a source and power of teaching, research promotes the deepening of teaching content. The effectively integration of teaching and research gives a new meaning to the modern university teaching. The modern university teaching sho...

E-Teaching in Undergraduate University Education and Its Relationship to Approaches to Teaching

While researchers working within the Student Learning Research framework have developed or adapted questionnaires to gather information on students’ experiences of blended learning, no questionnaire has been developed to enquire about teachers’ experiences in such learning environments. The present article reports the development and testing of a novel questionnaire on ‘approaches to e-teaching...