Abstract The study investigated the perceptions among non-English major students of autonomous language learning (ALL) their responsibilities, ability to act autonomously, motivation learn English, and activities within outside class. data were collected using questionnaires follow-up interviews. Nearly 300 at a university in Hanoi, Vietnam, participated, 11 whom later interviewed. analysis sug...

Learning is no longer confined to the four walls of classroom but can happen at any time and place as learners wish. Thus, promoting learner autonomy – ability navigate their own learning - has been regarded focus education because it promises successful lifelong learning. However, students' level autonomy, difficulties when regulating learning, solutions for those problems are factors that edu...

In this article, researchers set out to discover the metadiscourse markers in research articles written by both native and non-native English speakers. To this end, a total number of twenty research articles published by Iranian and native English speakers in highly reputed journals on Arts and Humanities domains were randomly selected from major databases including Science Direct, Noormagz, an...

BACKGROUND Scientific Initiation Programmes (SIP) are now considered increasingly important in medical courses, and are now being introduced in many medical courses. The School of Medicine at Universidade Federal Fluminense pioneered on optional SIP in 1995. This study aims to compare scientific output of professors who engaged in SIP disciplines (SIP group) with that of professors who did not ...

Executive Overview Despite suggestions that business school professors do not understand what actually accounts for the performance of business organizations, the evidence is anecdotal at best. We review past work, develop expectations, and provide large-scale evidence for examining the validity of such suggestions. We accessed extensive data provided by Dun & Bradstreet and procured detailed i...

Undergraduate and graduate students come to the writing center for consultations with peer tutors in order to improve their communication skills. During peer tutoring sessions (over the course of one semester) it became clear that these students were meeting with the tutors that I supervised, for more than just help with their writing. I observed six male and seven female students that needed h...