Bringing Classroom-Based Assessment into the EFL classroom

Bringing Reality into the Classroom

Technology offers ample opportunities to bring reality into the classroom. Students and teachers nowadays have many tools to work in an authentic way with real data in mathematics and science education. However, much research and development is still needed to create a consistent learning trajectory out of the many exciting single activities. Some examples are presented, in particular with rega...

Bringing Research Tools Into the Classroom

the advancement of computer technology used for research is creating the need to change the way classes are taught in higher education. “bringing research tools into the Classroom” has become a major focus for the software tools for academics and researchers (star) team at MIt. the star developers collaborate with faculty researchers to help solve the problems of moving computational tools used...

Vocabulary in an EFL classroom

Despite our increasing knowledge on vocabulary and its learning and teaching, the reality in a classroom may still be somewhat more traditional. This paper looks at how lexical knowledge is portrayed in an EFL classroom and in pupils’ ideas of words. The data derives from a longitudinal study that investigated the development of children’s metalinguistic awareness during their first six years a...

Bringing Games into the Classroom in Teaching Quality Control*

The increasing pressures from students, industry, government, and accreditation organizations demand a paradigm shift in engineering education to turn the focus of education from instruction to learning. In the course of Quality Control at the University of Manitoba, the concepts and principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) are usually taught through a series of lectures. Given the fact tha...

The Effect of Teacher’s Questioning Behavior on EFL Classroom Interaction: a classroom-based research

Smart Classroom: Bringing Pervasive Computing into Distance Learning

In recent years, distance learning has increasingly become one of the most important applications on the internet and is being discussed and studied by various universities, institutes and companies. The Web/Internet provides relatively easy ways to publish hyper-linked multimedia content for more audiences. Yet, we find that most of the courseware are simply shifted from textbook to HTML files...