Learning a foreign language takes time and effort. In the last few years, too much emphasis has been placed on oral communication skills and English teachers make their students speak English without paying enough attention to grammatical accuracy. As a result, while students’ ability in terms of fluency has improved, they often cannot communicate appropriately in English due to a lack of gramm...

In 1983, when I attended my first linguistics course, taught by one Professor Rüdiger Zimmermann, Joan Bybee and Carol Moder published an article on „Morphological classes as natural categories“ in Language. In this article they argued that prototype theory can be applied to morphological classes, in particular ablaut classes in English verb morphology. Their experimental results indicated that...

Elevated rates of failure in Engineering courses at the university level, in addition to the difficulty in attracting new students to courses in this area have made it necessary to implement new and innovative measures to invert this trend. ‘EDBI’ (Ensino à Distância Baseado na Internet) is a project conceived with the purpose of increasing school success and capturing the interest of the stude...

Assessment of environmental impact is one of the main courses of environmental science and engineering subject, according to its features of comprehensiveness and practicalness, combine the requirements of engineers of environmental impact assessment, teachers should renew the teaching content, strengthen the case teaching, so to keep the classroom teaching and practical teaching synchronous. T...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies have been proven useful in assisting western classical singing training. Jingju (also known as Beijing or Peking opera) singing is different from western singing in terms of most of the perceptual dimensions, and the trainees are taught by using mouth/heart method. In this paper, we first present the training method used in the professional jingju ...

The present paper attempted to evaluate the improving trends of teaching methods by examining their impact on the learning concepts and perception of students of the Concept Schools located in the Baldia Town, Karachi Pakistan. For this purpose, three research questions were formulated; 1) what sorts of teaching methods have been used for the students during the period of 2008 to 2012?; 2) What...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of multimedia computer assisted instruction (MCAI), traditional instruction (TI), and combined instruction (CI) methods on learning the long jump event. Forty-eight middle school students of seventh and eighth grade were randomly assigned into three teaching method groups: MCAI, TI and CI. Each group received ten 45-min periods of instructio...

1 Vicente Colomer Romero, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Department, Polytechnic School of Alcoy, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Paseo del Viaducto, 1 CP.38001 Alcoy, SPAIN , [email protected] 2 Samuel Sánchez Caballero, Polytechnic School of Alcoy, Polytechnic University of Valencia, [email protected] 3 T. Vicente Esquerdo Lloret, Polytechnic School of Alcoy, Polytechnic Universit...

In the educational scenario, Project-Based Learning appears as the main teaching method addressed to develop active learners by developing symbolic learning and critical thinking by adapting students to the current challenges of society. This adaptation supposes to develop many cognitive processes that influence on the development of language and thinking which are considering 21st century skil...