The present study is an attempt to shed light on the effect of Dynamic Assessment (DA) on diagnosing and developing the receptive vocabulary abilities of upper-intermediate learners learning English as a foreign language. Fifty L2 leaners participated in the First Certificate in English test and completed Vocabulary Knowledge Scale. Out of 50 students, ten learners who were identified as being ...

This study explored learners’ satisfaction toward a mobile learning system designed to enhance novices’ reflective thinking and problem-solving. Instructional multimedia were provided via mobile devices to facilitate novices’ learning of the Fedora system. Learners’ reflective thinking was enhanced by responding to the reflection prompts and summarizing what they had learned from the instructio...

Iterative learning (It-learning) is a Gold-style learning model in which each of a learner’s output conjectures may depend only upon the learner’s current conjecture and the current input element. Two extensions of the It-learning model are considered, each of which involves parallelism. The first is to run, in parallel, distinct instantiations of a single learner on each input element. The sec...

This research investigated the viability of learning by self-managing split-attention worked examples as an alternative to learning by studying instructor-managed integrated worked examples. Secondary school students learning properties of angles on parallel lines were taught to integrate spatially separated text and diagrammatic information by using online tools to physically move text to asso...

This paper describes the English-learning experiences of two students from a low-ranking college on the Chinese mainland. Using a biographical method, the paper explores a group of English learners’ English-learning experiences prior to and after their arrival at the college. By focusing on two learners, the paper illustrates the profound impact that a competitive educational context can have o...

given the fact that developing an intimate relationship between teacher and students creates a safe learning environment (harran, 2006), and because teacher immediacy is proved to increase students’ motivation for learning (velez & cano, 2008), this study was an attempt to explore the relationship between iranian efl learners’ perceived teacher immediacy and their willingness to communicate...

In this paper, a Highly Efficient e-Learning System based on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Agents, KMIA-HELS, is proposed. The design concept is to use knowledge management and intelligent agent community to help the learners finding out the adapting courses and learning path. The system analyzes the causes of ineffective learning by portfolio and test-portfolio, and then provides person...

this study aimed at providing learners with an opportunity not only to bring together their core and disciplinary knowledge to acquire major skills of learning english as a foreign language (efl), and the intellectual challenge of these issues at the interface of media, language and religion, but also help the materials generators to produce suitable types of content to be delivered through the...

Despite their advantages, blended approaches have been met with mixed results by learners. There is a general view that learners who are known as Digital Natives or Millennials, are technologically savvy. Research, however, suggests rather that they possess poor levels of digital literacy and have demonstrated some degree of avoidance towards e-learning tools (Boyd, 2014; Chigeza and Halbert, 2...

Online learning has grown exponentially in recent years; however, dropout problem remains challenging for some online programmes. The dropout problem can be attributed to a number of reasons, with a lack of interaction between learners and the instructor constituting one of the main reasons. The lack of interaction also leads to learners’ feeling of isolation. Learning communities can provide l...