Self-regulation of learning has been extensively investigated in second language (L2) learning. Many studies have focused on the strategies that language learners employ to regulate their own learning processes. However, motivational self-regulation is considerably less explored. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies (MSRSs) an...

In particular in STEM education, disciplines, which require students to understand difficult conceptual concepts such as physical phenomena, different learning strategies have evolved to enhance the students’ learning success and engagement. Many of these strategies include interactive activities such as hands-on experiences, game-based learning, or cooperative assignments. It is challenging to...

This paper presents the middleware developed under the EUME project to integrate the EUME environment, an Intelligent Learning Management System aimed to support classroom activities, with the BSCW, a 'shared workspace' system that enables collaboration over the Web. This middleware allows the EUME multi-agent system to send information to, and get feedback from, the BSCW client-server system b...

Advances in the multimedia technology provide an opportunity to enhance learning in the university education. The paper presents a sample of multimedia learning objects and cooperative activities based on Macromedia Flash, Questionmark Perception, and Mathworks Matlab, used to teach the theoretical concepts in a senior level course, Digital Signal Processing in Communication Systems (DSP/CS). A...

Web-based learning environments provide an attractive method for information dissemination, but in many instances they can be just electronic equivalents of printed course materials. Appropriate learning objectives and pedgagogical strategies are minimal or non-existent. Too often web-based learning environments lack cooperative and collaborative activities with the unintended consequence of fe...

The results of two experiments performed over a period of four semesters demonstrate the benefits of active and cooperative classroom activities. The insights and methods provided by Project LEA/RN (Learning Enhancement Action/Resource Network) discussion groups at Iowa State University have demonstrably improved student learning in engineering classrooms. Reversing the typical roles of lecture...

This article demonstrates an ESP lesson plan to teach English listening and speaking for 49 EFL college students in hospitality fields, i.e. Western Culinary Arts and Bakery Technology and Management in Taiwan. This ESP class is content-based, featuring a combination of language-oriented, skills-oriented and learning-oriented approaches to ESP syllabus design. The syllabus aims at reaching sati...

The present study compared the effect of cooperative group feedback and cooperative group writing techniques in writing classes. Accordingly, 90 male and female intermediate English language learners sat for a sample piloted Preliminary English Test and 60 who scored one standard deviation above and below the mean were selected as the main participants. Both groups were taught the same course b...

Cooperative and collaborative learning – learning in small groups – is generally considered an effective learning approach with benefits including learning gains and personal enhancement. Successful group activities, however, assume competence in a number of skills. Identification of the particular skills that students need to successfully negotiate collaborative learning is imperative in prepa...