autonomy plays a crucial role in the enhancement of important learning qualities in the learners. in that line of thinking, this study was launched to discover how english language learners exposed to an autonomously managed versus teacher controlled conditions would respond to the learning determinants. two classes of english language learners at isfahan university of technology, iran were thu...

The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between perceived teacher autonomy support (PAS) and student engagement (SE), as well mediating role learning motivation (LM) moderating class climate (CC) among 1517 college students in Chinese universities. Survey questionnaires were used gathering data, findings revealed that: (1) PAS had a significant positive impact on SE (B=0.966, p...

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...

The problem of learning a policy, a task representation mapping from world states to actions, lies at the heart of many robotic applications. One approach to acquiring a task policy is learning from demonstration, an interactive technique in which a robot learns a policy based on example state to action mappings provided by a human teacher. This thesis introduces Confidence-Based Autonomy, a mi...

The aim of this study is to examine the advantages of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), especially vocabulary learning of English as a foreign or second language (L2) in terms of the two strands: automatization and learner autonomy. Previous studies articulate that technology-enhanced L2 learning could bring about some positive effects. The use of technological functions in a mobile dev...