extended abstract 1. introduction there is a consensus among listening researchers that listening comprehension includes a variety of subskills; though there is not yet a general agreement on their precise nature or exact number (buck & tatsuoka, 1998). thus, it should be possible to define listening as complex skill operations which involve a number of subskills or constituent elements (goh & ...

83 T he less than adequate characteristics of traditional lecture-based educational methods are well established. Research indicates that lecture alone leads to student passivity, does little to promote retention of learned material, discourages interaction between students and instructors, and makes it difficult for instructors to obtain timely feedback about student understanding. Research on...

This two-group, pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental study compared secondary students’ learning of Algebra II materials over a 4-week period when identical instruction by the same teacher was delivered through either embedded blended learning (treatment group; n = 32) or a live-lecture classroom (control group; n = 24). For both groups, instruction was delivered in a normal classroom setting. ...