Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one of the most important academic tasks encountered by students. In higher education, students are exposed to a number of texts and textbooks that require independent reading. At thi...

Despite John B. Watson's considerable importance in the history of psychology and his celebrity status during the first part of the twentieth century, substantive discussions of his life, work, and views are now relatively rare. Passing references to Watson still appear in scholarly and popular works (e.g., Koch & Leary, 1985; M. Levin, 1987), but in-depth analyses, when they can be found, are ...

Research into the adoption and satisfaction level of academic electronic textbooks (etextbooks) by students continues to proliferate as e-textbooks become more commonplace. To date this research has indicated that either students prefer print textbooks to e-textbooks or the results are inconclusive. Prior research on the overall acceptance of technology suggested that females are significantly ...

Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission academic often relies, especially in early stages learning. Adopting a corpus-based approach, this study evaluates text difficulty science textbooks used secondary English-medium instruction schools Hong Kong, with focus their lexical coverage and readability. It compares English language that as foreign textbooks. T...

This paper reviews the potential role of writing textbooks in increasing our understanding of academic writing. It argues that this role is underappreciated for several reasons. These include the dampening effects of existing discoursal and social-constructionist accounts of introductory college textbooks, a reluctance to look beyond the ostensible student audience, and a diffidence in recogniz...

martin kirschner (1879-1942), versatile german surgeon who had his scientific research and academic interests addressed topics which are covered by several specialities such as general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and plastic surgery. he also was the editor of five medical journals and autjor of 249 articles and eight textbooks. his greatest and lasting contributio...