This study presents a contrastive analysis of gerundial and infinitival complementation produced by Spanish and German ESL learners and English native speakers. An analysis of more than 1,100 attestations of the target constructions obtained from the International Corpus of Learner English reveals that (i) advanced learners’ construction choices are not necessarily ungrammatical, yet often non-...

Accurately assessing the quality of one’s work is a crucial skill for professional designers and design students alike. This paper describes teaching materials that help students self-assess their work in a design course at a large university in the US. Using these materials, students have been successful in evaluating themselves—in 69% of all weekly student submissions, self-assessed scores ma...

The spread of infectious diseases is inherently a stochastic process and the materials posted at this website1 heavily rely on probability theory. Here we review some basic concepts of probability theory for easy reference. The material is restricted to notions that are used in teaching materials posted here or in our book chapters [1, 2]. While this posting cannot replace a regular textbook on...

As a preliminary step towards conducting a teacher survey on pronunciation teaching in order to design a phonetics course for current and prospective English teachers in Japan, this paper analyses six governmentapproved English textbooks used in junior high schools. The purposes are to examine the types of pronunciation activities in the textbooks and to discuss the knowledge of phonetics requi...

Th is research explores why academics in Hong Kong embed learning technologies into their teaching despite competing demands at work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. In embedding learning technologies, some academics reported that they could support learners who were not active in learning better, extend learning opportunities and engage in alternative learning experiences. Others re...

Educational attainment is inversely related to socio-economic status. The achievement gap widens as children progress through the system. Take up of science options is particularly poor and difficulties are compounded by lack of relevant science-based work experience in deprived areas. The interaction of these factors is examined in some detail in an area of socio-economic deprivation. High att...

Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima Japan, †† Keio University, Kanagawa Japan Summary This paper proposes a new training method for instructing newcomers in the field of microprocessor design. By using this method, which is an extension of the method known as legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) proposed by Lave and Wenger, the newcomers can obtain creativity beyond the teaching materials...

The present thesis investigates to what extent contemporary ELT textbooks include reading materials as well as what types of texts are being used and what reading strategies they seemingly promote. Additionally, the study analyzes whether there is a noticeable discrepancy in teaching materials designed for the vocational and university preparatory and considers whether the design of the current...

The use of multimedia applications in schools is quite common. However, according to Alfonso Gutiérrez (2003: 42), these are often attributed educational advantages, which perhaps they do not have and just like that, it is assumed it favors learning. From a creative design perspective, how can we make educational multimedia resources really contribute to an effective teaching-learning process? ...

This paper describes the development of an electronic portfolio retrieval system “PRIUM” (Portfolio Retrieval for Investigating Useful Material) which reflects keyword similarity, and assessment of its retrieving efficiency. 40 elementary school students used PRIUM, and 40 elementary school students used a full text retrieval system during their Information Communication Technology (ICT) educat...