scholarly journals A Case Study of Teacher Feedback on Thai University Students’ Essay Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Loan Thi Thuy Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Thai University

scholarly journals A Mixed-Method Case Study: Is there Only the Pictorial Input that Affects Word Retention?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Watcharee Paisart ◽  
Watjana Suriyatham
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
T Test ◽  
Recall Protocol ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Word Retention ◽  
Metacognitive Processing ◽  
Thai University

This mixed-method case study was conducted to probe how a set of pictures had an influence on a group of EFL university students’ retention of English words. Seven Thai university participants, enrolling in the course of English for Service Industry, were voluntarily engaged in the study. They took a pretest of 45 words they learned in class through the use of pictorial input for one semester, and right after the posttest, they recalled how they could remember the words in an individually stimulated recall protocol session. The result of T-test from Wilcoxon sign-ranked test showed that the pretest and posttest scores were significantly different at the 0.05 level. Interestingly, the qualitative accounts from the stimulated recall revealed that apart from the pictorial input the participants learned in class, they also employed other strategies to help them memorize the vocabulary. The findings from the study; therefore, shed lights on cognitive-metacognitive processing and strategies an individual EFL learner adopted, and most importantly, on how teachers can encourage their learners to orchestrate them and make the best use of pictures in order to learn ESP vocabulary effectively.

scholarly journals Promoting Intercultural Competence of Thai University Students through Role-Play

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanoknate Worawong ◽  
Kanjana Charttrakul ◽  
Anamai Damnet
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
English Education ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Thai University

The current situation of international communication in globalization context requires intercultural competence (IC) to achieve successful communication (Crystal, 2003). Concerning this intercultural competence, non-verbal communication (NVC) plays a key role to indicate the success of having intercultural competence. On the other hand, Thai Ministry of Education (MOE) has launched the CEFR for the country policy in English teaching and learning (Ministry of Education, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to present major results of an investigation of intercultural competence, that is, the NVC. An innovative program implemented in this study is the CEFR and project- based activities (the CEFR-PBA). The study also examines Thai university students’ attitude towards this innovative class. This paper discusses the IC students learned from role-plays. The participants of the study were 44 students of third year English Education at a Thai Rajabhat University. Research method applies action research (Burns, 1999) and case study (Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Method, 2003). Data collection gained was from 1) videotape recordings of students’ role-play, and 2) the questionnaire. Data analysis for video recordings employed a NVC rating scale evaluated by native-speaker raters; while means, percentage, and SD were used for the questionnaire. Grounded theory’s color coding (Strauss & Cobin, 1990) will be utilized in analyzing the qualitative data from raters’ additional comment. Findings revealed students’ NVC performance were both appropriate on body movement and position as well as vocalic communication. Moreover, their attitude towards the CEFR-PBA was positive.

Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora FIORE ◽  
Giuliano SANSONE ◽  
Chiara Lorenza REMONDINO ◽  
Paolo Marco TAMBORRINI
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Positive Effect

Interest in offering Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to all kinds of university students is increasing. Therefore, universities are increasing the number of entrepreneurship courses intended for students from different fields of study and with different education levels. Through a single case study of the Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo), we suggest how EE may be taught to all kinds of university students. We have combined design methods with EE to create a practical-oriented entrepreneurship course which allows students to work in transdisciplinary teams through a learning-by-doing approach on real-life projects. Professors from different departments have been included to create a multidisciplinary environment. We have drawn on programme assessment data, including pre- and post-surveys. Overall, we have found a positive effect of the programme on the students’ entrepreneurial skills. However, when the data was broken down according to the students’ fields of study and education levels, mixed results emerged.

The Prevalence Of Obesity In Kuwait: A Case Study Among Kuwait University Students Using GIS

2019 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
محمد عبدالله النصر الله ◽  
محمد غانم المطر
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity

scholarly journals Measuring Tolerant Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caterina Liberati ◽  
Riccarda Longaretti ◽  
Alessandra Michelangeli
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Multidimensional Index ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Social Domain ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Social Domains ◽  
Scale Data

AbstractThis paper addresses the issue of measuring tolerance, viewed as a multifaceted phenomenon involving several different social domains. We develop a multidimensional index for Likert-scale data, characterized by the following features: (i) it reflects the individual’s intensity of tolerant attitudes towards each social domain; (ii) the index can be broken down by dimension in order to determine the contribution of each dimension to overall tolerance; (iii) the index combines the different dimensions of tolerance using a weighted scheme that reflects the importance of each dimension in determining the overall level of tolerance. To show how this new measure of tolerance works in practice, we carry out a case study using an Italian recent survey asking the opinion of university students about different subjects, such as interreligious dialog, women/religion relationship, religion/death relationship, homosexuality, and multicultural society.

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