This paper reports on an experimental research study that aimed at investigating the effectiveness of employing a virtual task-based situated language learning (TBSLL) environment mediated by Second Life (SL) in developing EFL student teachers’ pragmatic writing skills and their technological self-efficacy. To reach this goal, a control-only experimental research design was employed to compare ...

BACKGROUND Electronic health records (EHRs) are structured, distributed documentation systems that differ from paper charts. These systems require skills not traditionally used to navigate a paper chart and to produce a written clinic note. Despite these differences, little attention has been given to physicians' electronic health record (EHR)-writing and -reading competence. PURPOSES This st...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

Due to the potential of literature to expresses both cultural values and universal human values, its study can promote internal as well as international communication. The literary reader’s creative (or rather, ‘co-creative’) role and the imaginative involvement engendered by this role encourage a dynamic interaction between reader, text and external world. Today, with the interdisciplinary out...

In this one-year longitudinal study, we examined the central component processes of reading fluency, spelling accuracy, reading comprehension, and narrative text writing skills of 103 Turkish Cypriot children. Two cohorts of children from second and fourth grades were followed into third and fifth grades, respectively. The testing battery included the measures of phonological awareness, rapid a...