South Korean job seekers face pressure to produce high scores on standardized English tests, which leads the prominence of test-oriented pedagogy. Though recent scholarship illustrates how materials reflect values society and these are negotiated in classrooms it has mainly analyzed preexisting published books, leaving potential student-generated (SGMs) underexplored. By using a new materialist...

introduction: india has the highest number of medical colleges in the world and subsequently the higher number of medical teachers. there is a dire need of adopting a systematic approach to faculty development to enhance quality education to meet health challenges for 21st century. this manuscript provides a landscape of faculty development programs in india, identifying gaps and opportunities ...

BACKGROUND Continuous training of teachers, in discipline and pedagogical topics, is a key step to improve the quality of educational processes. AIM To report the perception of Chilean teachers of undergraduate health care programs, about continuous training activities. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty teachers working at different undergraduate health care programs in Chile were interviewed. Ma...

This paper discusses the roles of intermodality and multilingualism in a genre pedagogy program aimed to improve students’ literacy Indonesia. It draws on data from an intervention which extended Reading Learn (R2L) genre-based embed English learning biology lessons for Indonesian junior high school students. bilingual R2L is innovative that it involves use written spoken Bahasa Indonesia both ...

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society....

Abstract This study explored multilingual students’ attitudes towards translanguaging after the practice was introduced in group activities aimed at improving their English language skills and classroom engagement. A cohort of students taking a pre-sessional course college technology Rwanda were initiated into translanguaging. They then observed while interviewed later focus groups to understan...

Four synthetic peptides (Peptidyl MIMs; Demeter Biotechnologies, Inc.) were evaluated for their in vitro activity against Acholeplasma laidlawii. Fifty percent effective concentration values ranged from 1 to 15 microM. Three of these compounds are more lethal than cecropin B against A. laidlawii.

A tandem solar cell device whose sub-cells are fabricated exclusively from small molecules (SMs) through both solution-processed and vacuum-processed deposition techniques is described. The front sub-cell's active layer consists of a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) DPP(TBFu)2:PC70BM device while the back cell has a typical bilayer structure employing a 2,4-bis[4-(N,N-diisobutylamino)-2,6-dihydroxyphe...

Willingness to Communicate (WTC) has become an important concept in second language (L2) classroom context. WTC is proven as a predictor of participation since students who tend have high participated more interaction and they are likely be ready get involved any interactions using their L2 both inside outside classroom. Given the central role teachers play pedagogy, shape curriculum within con...