Based on the previous study on the framework of cultivating cross-cultural awareness, this study focuses on strategies in practice for Secondary School English teaching. It aims at explaining how to effectively promote the target culture teaching and learning and develop key competencies of cross-cultural awareness in the context of Chinese learners of English. The author proposes different met...

This paper discusses learning style theories with a focus on the VARK model and Honey-Mumford questionnaires. The traditional views are described and a restatement in terms of abilities or skills is proposed. Then the learning style methodology is applied to teaching computer science. A hypothesis is made that most of computer science students share kinaesthetic/activist preference and teaching...

The objective of the courses which this syllabus describes is to expose developmental biologists to embryo culture and embryo manipulation techniques and applications in quantitative analyses. The laboratory program complements classroom teaching by exposure to both inductive and deductive methodologies. Developmental biology teaching requires good background in cell biology, molecular biology ...

As the role of a phlebotomist in a clinical setting involves patient interactions, correct patient identification, and blood specimen accessioning, it is essential that the phlebotomy education pay attention to these procedural tasks to inculcate a culture of patient safety. Using the Gagne's nine events of instruction as the basis of teaching model, this paper describes the lesson plan for tea...

An understanding of language as ‘open, dynamic, constantly evolving and personal encompasses the rich complexities of communication (Shohamy, 2007, p.5). Knowing about the important role of culture as well as psychological aspects of language can give us a broader view of languageteaching and learning. In order to obtain a better understanding of different aspects of language teaching, the pres...

An increasing number of international students, whose teaching and learning practices are very different from that of the UK, is studying in the U.K. This study poses the question of whether Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the most optimum language teaching approach in today’s multicultural society regardless of cultural differences. The Japanese teaching method (Japanisation) was pres...

Patient education is essential in assisting patients to live with illness and to have improved health outcomes. Patient education is also one of the most satisfying aspects of care provided by professional nurses. Additionally, patient education is a qualifier in professional and accreditation standards. The teaching-learning process, how culture influences learning and teaching strategies, and...

Because teaching hospitals face increasing pressure to justify their higher charges for clinical care, the quality of care in teaching and nonteaching hospitals is an important policy question. The most rigorous peer-reviewed studies published between 1985 and 2001 that assessed quality of care by hospital-teaching status in the United States provide moderately strong evidence of better quality...

Teaching is a form of high-fidelity social learning that promotes human cumulative culture. Although recently documented in several nonhuman animals, teaching is rare among primates. In this study, we show that wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Goualougo Triangle teach tool skills by providing learners with termite fishing probes. Tool donors experienced significant reductio...