The present study set out to determine the effect of implementing exploratory-cumulative talk in comparison to disputational talk on cognitive (meaning development and organization of thought as well as problem solving ability) dependency of intermediate level students in translation studies. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a quasi-experimental-pretest-posttest-statistical stud...

Classroom management is an essential element of the teaching and learning process which determines quality instruction. This research aims to investigate elements classroom can be effectively applied in EFL classrooms. study a review study, where data were collected from 43 previously published materials, restricted books, dissertations, articles academic journal. The analysed using condensatio...

Preparing future professionals for highly dynamic settings require self-directed learning in authentic situations. Authentic situations imply teamwork. Therefore, designing education requires an understanding of how develops teams. We followed (bio-)medical sciences students (n = 15) during 8-month period which they worked on innovation project teams 4–6 students. Template analysis 39 transcrip...

The learning sciences of today recognize the tri-dimensional nature of learning as involving cognitive, social and emotional phenomena. However, many computer-supported argumentation systems still fail in addressing the socioemotional aspects of group reasoning, perhaps due to a lack of an integrated theoretical vision of how these three dimensions interrelate to each other. This paper presents...

This study explores the theory that individual reasoning ability, as measured using standard reasoning tests, has part of its origin in dialogue with others. In the study 64 eight and nine year old children were taught the use of 'Exploratory talk', a type of talk in which joint reasoning is made explicit. The relationship between the talk of the children and the solving of Raven's test problem...

This explorative study contributes to research on relevance assessment by specifying criteria that are used in the judgment of information quality and credibility in internet discussion forums. To this end, 4739 messages posted to 160 Finnish discussion threads were analyzed. Of the messages, 20.5% contained explicit judgments of the quality of information and credibility in other messages. In ...

one of the factors influencing the athletes’ performance in critical situations is their awareness of the strategies entailing mental skills. one such skill is self-talk that has been identified as an effective mental training tool in controlling human beings’ behaviors. this study aims to examine the perceived positive and negative effects of self-talk on the athletes’ performance. data were c...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of overt and covert motivationalself-talk on perceived exertion and performance in a progressive exercise untilexhaustion in wrestlers. the population consisted of wrestlers in urmia and 15volunteer subjects were selected. this study was performed in three sessions with aone-week interval. the first session was held without self–talk while the sec...

the aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the effects of twokinds of motivational and instructional self–talk on the performance of static anddynamic balance tasks in the elderly. for this purpose, 45 old subjects agedbetween 60 and 70 from qom province participated in this study. static balancetask (stand on one leg) and dynamic balance task (sebt test) were instructed withno...