This study was mainly aimed at assessing English language teachers’ awareness, perceptions, and practices of implementing active learning methods at Kambata Tembaro zone, Ethiopia. A descriptive survey method in a mixed approach was used to collect, analyze, and interpr More
This study was mainly aimed at assessing English language teachers’ awareness, perceptions, and practices of implementing active learning methods at Kambata Tembaro zone, Ethiopia. A descriptive survey method in a mixed approach was used to collect, analyze, and interpret data for the study. Instruments such as classroom observation, questionnaires, and focus group discussions were employed to collect valid data for the study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to analyze and present the data. Thus, data gathered via classroom observation and questionnaire were quantitatively analyzed by using SPSS, and data gathered via focus group discussion were qualitatively analyzed through narrations. The findings of the study revealed that teachers are not adequately aware of active learning methods. The findings of the study also revealed that teachers view/perceive active learning methods negatively. Likewise, the study ensured that the implementation of active learning methods in the zone was almost nonexistent. The researchers suggested that the teachers should take capacity-building pieces of training on a short and long-term basis.
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This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social skills training through teaching - learning strategy of concept mapping on social anxiety of high school female students in the city of Ahvaz. The research method is experimental with pretest posttest study des More
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social skills training through teaching - learning strategy of concept mapping on social anxiety of high school female students in the city of Ahvaz. The research method is experimental with pretest posttest study design and follow-up. The study population consisted of all the high School Female Students, to choose them by multistage cluster sampling method 40 patients were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups respectively. The instrument used in this research is the Watson and Friend Social anxiety questionnaire (1969). In this research after the pretest intervention began, and during 10 training sessions on social skills through teaching - learning strategy of concept mapping was carried out for this participants and then follow-up was performed after one month. For analyzing data, the analysis method of covariance (MANCOVA) was used. The results of data analysis showed that social skills training can reduce social anxiety in adolescent girls in the experimental group compared with the control ..
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این مطالعه سعی بر آن داشت تا تأثیرات احتمالی نقشه های ذهنی الکترونیکی بر گزینه های راهبردی یادگیری زبان را میان فراگیران نوجوان وبزرگسال ایرانی زبان انگلیسی بررسی کند. علاوه بر این، استراتژیهای فرعی ترجیحی آنها در هر یک از گزینه های راهبردی یادگیری زبان برای برخی از شر More
این مطالعه سعی بر آن داشت تا تأثیرات احتمالی نقشه های ذهنی الکترونیکی بر گزینه های راهبردی یادگیری زبان را میان فراگیران نوجوان وبزرگسال ایرانی زبان انگلیسی بررسی کند. علاوه بر این، استراتژیهای فرعی ترجیحی آنها در هر یک از گزینه های راهبردی یادگیری زبان برای برخی از شرکتکنندگان داوطلب از طریق برخی مصاحبههای ساختاریافته ی الکترونیکی مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. بر اساس طرحی شبه تجربی، 76 نفر از فراگیران نوجوان وبزرگسال مرد وزن ایرانی زبان انگلیسی در دسترس به طور تصادفی به چهار گروه مساوی آزمایش و کنترل تقسیم شدند. پرسشنامه ی استراتژی غالب در یادگیری زبان برای همه ی شرکتکنندگان در مراحل قبل و بعد از مداخله و به دنبال آن یک مصاحبه الکترونیکی ساختاریافته فقط در مرحله بعد از مداخله برگزار شد. مداخله، ارائه محتوای آموزش از طریق نقشه های ذهنی الکترونیکی در مقابل روش متعارف تدریس به مدت 20 جلسه بود. برای تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها از آمار توصیفی و تطبیقی استفاده شد. نتایج نشان داد که استفاده از نقشه های ذهنی الکترونیکی گزینه های راهبردی یادگیری زبان فراگیران نوجوان وبزرگسال ایرانی زبان انگلیسی را به سمت راهبردهای حافظه و شناختی سوق داد. علاوه بر این، استراتژیهای فرعی ترجیحی آنها در هر یک از گزینه های راهبردی یادگیری زبان به تفصیل برای هر دو گروه مورد بحث قرار گرفت. نتایج این مطالعه میتواند مفاهیم مهمی را برای زمینههای آموزش و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی و فناوری آموزشی در استفاده از نقشه های ذهنی الکترونیکی به عنوان ابزاری مؤثر در کلاسهای آموزش زبان انگلیسی ارائه دهد.
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مقاله حاضر در پی شناسایی راهبردهای فراگیری واژه توسط زبان آموزان ایرانی و رابطه احتمالی تفاوتهای سنی افراد در این زمینه است.برای رسیدن به این هدف، 60 دانشجوی زبان شامل 25 پسر و 35 دختر در یک موسسه زبان بر اساس آزمون سطح بندی آکسفورد انتخاب شدند. سپس بر اساس سن یه More
مقاله حاضر در پی شناسایی راهبردهای فراگیری واژه توسط زبان آموزان ایرانی و رابطه احتمالی تفاوتهای سنی افراد در این زمینه است.برای رسیدن به این هدف، 60 دانشجوی زبان شامل 25 پسر و 35 دختر در یک موسسه زبان بر اساس آزمون سطح بندی آکسفورد انتخاب شدند. سپس بر اساس سن یه دو گروه زیر 20 سال و بزرگسال تقسیم شدند. 4 ابزار شامل آزمون آکسفورد، پرسشنامه راهبرد فراگیری واژه، آزمون واژه، ویک مصاحبه برای جمع آوری اطلاعات بکار گرفته شد.نتایج نشان دهنده آنست که هردو گروه از راهبرد حفظ واژه بیش از دیگر راهبردها استفاده می کنند اما در مورد دیگر راهبردها تفاوت هایی وجود دارد.در حالیکه میان سن افراد گروه زیر 20 سال و نتیجه آزمون واژه زابطه منفی وجود دارد، ارتباط معنی داری میان سن بزرگسالان و نتیجه آزمون واژه نیست. یافته ها نشان دهنده لزوم آموزش راهبردها برای گروههای سنی و سطوح زبانی مختلف است.
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The purpose of the current research is to identify learning strategies from a metacognitive perspective and to investigate its effect on academic self-efficacy, procrastination and academic burnout of male students of the second year of high school in the period of Coro More
The purpose of the current research is to identify learning strategies from a metacognitive perspective and to investigate its effect on academic self-efficacy, procrastination and academic burnout of male students of the second year of high school in the period of Corona virus. The method of research was mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and of the type of multi-group pre-test and post-test (extended experiment). In the qualitative stage, the statistical population included teachers and principals of junior high schools of Rasht, and in the quantitative stage, the population included all male students of junior high schools in the second district of Rasht in the academic year of 1401-1400 (N=500). Two schools were selected from the mentioned population via multi-stage cluster sampling (after checking the homogeneity of the classes). Fifty individuals from two homogeneous classes were selected randomly selected and were randomly assigned as the experimental and control groups (each containing 25 people). It can be stated that according to the covariance value in the academic self-efficacy variable (sig=0.00, F=36.97), this variable is significant. Also, it can be stated that the experimental group had a significant change in academic procrastination compared to the control group under the influence of the intervention (analysis of covariance in the variable of academic procrastination (sig=0.00, F=25.71)) that is, the development of learning strategies from a meta-cognitive perspective is effective on the academic procrastination of male students. Also, according to the results obtained from the analysis of covariance in the variable of academic burnout, which is (sig=0.00, F=30.42), it can be claimed that the experimental group had a significant change in academic burnout compared to the control group under the influence of the intervention. Thus, formulating learning strategies from a metacognitive perspective is effective on the academic burnout of students.
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The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of learning strategies on the development of new products in the Pharmaceutical Companies in Iran. Furthermore, the study examines the role of strategic orientation and cognitive capabilities in strengthening or More
The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of learning strategies on the development of new products in the Pharmaceutical Companies in Iran. Furthermore, the study examines the role of strategic orientation and cognitive capabilities in strengthening or weakening the relationship. The paradigm of the research is positivism, the approach is deductive and the strategy is surveying. Therefore, after reviewing the literature and designing concept model, a questionnaire consisting of 23 questions were distributed to 131 company. At least two of the senior or middle managers responded to each question, and the average of their opinions analyzed. Face and content validity of the questionnaire were verified according to experts, using standard questionnaires and relying on confirmatory factor analysis. As well as, reliability was approved by the Cronbach's alpha test, composite reliability and average variance. Then, the data were analyzed and tested using Smart PLS software through the correlation matrix, the structural equation model and the fitness analysis. The results show that exploratory and exploitative learning strategies effect on new products development. In addition, it was found that the cognitive capabilities can adjust this relationship. Strategic orientations, have a moderating role in relation between exploitative learning strategies and product development, but, their role in the relationship between exploratory and product development strategies are not significant.
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This study mainly aims at investigating the relationship between learners’ use of learning strategies in the process of English language learning and their command of English among English students in university. Out of 368 freshmen English language stud More
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This study mainly aims at investigating the relationship between learners’ use of learning strategies in the process of English language learning and their command of English among English students in university. Out of 368 freshmen English language students, 189 students studying English Language at Islamic Azad University - Roudehen Branch were selected applying cluster random sampling. Oxford's Strategy Inventory of Language Learning (SILL) and an ETS version of TOEFL examination (2003) were administered. The findings indicated that participants’ use of learning strategies in their study had correlation with their English proficiency level. Moreover, there is no significant difference between male and female students regarding the use of learning strategies in relation with their proficiency level.
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