These eminently practice-centred objectives require, of course, to be approached in the spirit of what we might call ‘‘interdisciplinary theory’’, that is, theoretical reflection on interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinarity is perhaps easier to claim than it is to demonstrate, and putatively interdisciplinary work frequently turns out to be merely multidisciplinary, in the sense of involving rel...

BACKGROUND A longitudinal study investigated the cognitive skills and scholastic attainments at 8 years of age of children selected on the basis of poor phonological loop skills at 5 years. METHODS Children with low and average performance at 5 years were tested three years later on measures of working memory, phonological awareness, vocabulary, language, reading, and number skill. RESULTS ...

Current pretest-posttest Classroom Action Research (CAR) attempted to examine the effect of in-class activities based on VLSs vocabulary achievement and their perspectives using them. The research sample consisted 43 female Saudi EFL students in Community College at Taibah University. Participants were assigned an experimental group (N=23) a control (N=20). Data collected via five instruments: ...

Abstract Self-esteem and bullying academic achievement measures are related in Western countries. However, evidence from other culture spaces is extremely sparse. To fill this gap, here, we analyze a wide range of relevant 8,381 8- to 12-year-old Latin American children enrolled the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey Chile. We considered relationship math achievement, receptive vocabulary, Gra...

this study used keyword method during encoding information in transferring information from short term memory to make the retrieval easier. for this purpose, 50 adult female elementary students were chosen to participate in this study. this study required two groups of learners (control and experimental groups). the experimental group enjoyed some special flashcards which each of them involved ...

The purpose of this study is to increase English vocabulary using visual mnemonic techniques for seventh graders junior high school. Several factors inhibited students from having difficulty memorizing vocabulary, lose motivation memorize and easily forgetting the they had learned. This inhibiting factor could be overcome by students' vocabulary. used Classroom Action Research with a sample 32 ...

Methodologically, vocabulary instruction has faced significant ups and downs during the history of language education; sometimes integrated with the other elements of language network, other times tackled as a separate component. Among many variables supposedly affecting vocabulary achievement, the role of teaching word history, as a schemata-building strategy, in developing reading comprehensi...

This chapter presents an ISD ontology, which aims to provide an integrated conceptualization of ISD through anchoring it upon a contextual approach. The ISD ontology is composed of concepts, relationships, and constraints referring to purposes, actors, actions, and objects of ISD. It is presented as a vocabulary with explicit definitions and in meta models in a UML-based ontology representation...