Integrating natural resources management in the secondary school curriculum in Kenya has received a lot of talk without adequate practical activities. The Farmers of the Future Programme under the World Agroforestry Centre, formally the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), initiated a practical approach to integration of natural resources management in the secondary school...

Collaborative Learning (CL), where students work together to develop shared understanding, is effective within the classroom. By co-constructing knowledge, learners benefit from the collective experience of others to supplement their learning. However, the extent to which students engage in collaborative activity outside of formal learning, and the basis of perceptions of the value of CL, is la...

recent interaction studies havefocused on the relationship between interactional feedback and l2 development.despite the large body of knowledge in this regard, few studies have examinedlearners’ preferences for interactional feedback. besides, different findingshave been reported concerning learners’ preferences for feedback and none hasexamined the factors accounting for the variation in the ...

the study was conducted with the aim of examining the rate of foreign language anxiety in male and female language learners. flcas (foreign language classroom anxiety scale) was administered to two groups of male and female learners. the mean scores of flcas indicated a significant difference with females having considerably higher levels of anxiety than males. from 38 female learners, 22 were ...

This paper investigated perceptions of self-instructional radio (SIR) materials by learners of English in the Japanese context and factors affecting completion and non-completion of the materials. The study found that the major advantage of the materials is that the fixed on-air schedule helps learners maintain a regular learning schedule. However, the same characteristic was perceived by other...

In this study, the wiki, a 2.0 Web learning tool, was used with 17 university learners of intermediate Spanish, whose first language was English. Learners were divided into small groups, and were instructed to create an electronic children’s book in which the reader actively participated in the story plotline. Learners worked collaboratively in the creation and electronic publication of the sto...

Understanding learners’ characteristics and behaviour using hypermedia systems in education is still a challenge for most developers and educators. This study seeks to understand the influence of learning style on learners’ use and preference of a Computer Based Learning (CBL) program which was developed using two navigational structures (linear and non-linear). The study presents the findings ...

Research informing adult education teachers’ didactic practices in distance is scarce. Approaching the learner’s perspectives on how perceived key to future initiatives. This study explores learners’ perception of education, concentrating aspects such as, social presence, course structure, and learning satisfaction. A survey was distributed teachers ( n = 78) five schools organising education. ...