Teachers need to know new applications for developing online materials and then they should become aware of different ways to present them to online audience. This study tries to help ELT teachers to overcome challenges and difficulties of vodcasting by recognizing their social and biological motives (Activity Theory), and using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). It can alter teachers’ negative ...

abstractthe present study aimed to explore the impact of teaching critical thinking skills through applying debate on the use of communicative strategies. at first 60 intermediate students were selected and placed in two homogenous groups of control and experimental through passing nelson test. then, a critical thinking appraisal was run to the two groups both before and after the treatment. th...

Twenty-first century learners live in a highly visual world, being constantly surrounded by visual, technologized stimuli and the educational system, be it general or specialized—as case of higher education—needs to creatively meet answer these learning requirements. Among plethora new updated approaches, concept Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) designed Philip Yenawine Abigail Housen has gaine...

We argue that the acquisition of chemistry expertise requires considerable conceptual changes, which among other things involve a change from reliance on visual-spatial thinking to the employment of analytic strategies. We also argue that this shift in chemistry and specifically in knowledge about molecular structure is related to the acquisition of expertise and not to individual differences i...