This paper investigates the role of a goal parameter in semantics. On the one hand, goals are necessary for a semantics of questions and answers. On the other hand, the eeect of underlying perlocutionary goals on information in context can be modelled as an issue or question-under-discussion. A logic, update semantics with questions (USQ), is presented that combines update semantics with a part...

This paper gives brief idea about new approach towards E learning in Micro-blogging supported classroom. Micro-blogging is a technology used in social networking applications which can be used in classroom for the communication between student and teacher. Nowadays from research it is observed that it has numerous benefits. Its major advantage is that the number of questions asked is much more ...

Bystanders in a real world's social setting have the ability to influence people's beliefs and behavior. This study examines whether this effect can be recreated in a virtual environment, by exposing people to virtual bystanders in a classroom setting. Participants (n = 26) first witnessed virtual students answering questions from an English teacher, after which they were also asked to answer q...

from paper presented at BAAL IC SIG Annual Seminar:Language Teaching and Language Learning, University of Edinburgh, March 2014. The main aim of the talk is to explore the role of (critical) cultural awareness in teachertraining pedagogies. Based on the assumption that language teachers want to develop theirstudents’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC), it behoves the teach...

In this article we present a comparative study in which analyzed teacher questions two different languages of instruction, namely, English-medium instruction (EMI) and Basque-medium (BMI) classes at university. For purpose, videotaped teachers who delivered 29 lessons forming corpus 39 h recording. The tool used for classroom observations the analysis was Communicative Orientation Language Teac...

the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...