The Outcomes of Fifth-Grade Emergent Bi/Multilinguals’ Introduction to a Visual Metalanguage When Constructing Scientific Explanations in Hong Kong

The visual mode provides emergent bi/multilinguals an essential resource to construct scientific explanations. Yet, while a metalanguage is used to describe the written mode of scientific language such as, claim, evidence, reason; there is little research that makes students aware of the metalanguage of a visual mode. We propose an introduction to the visual metalanguage will ensure emergent bi/multilinguals better access to the visual mode. This study employs an instrumental case study to examine the introduction of visual metalanguage to a fifth-grade science class. Two cameras record ten emergent bi/multilinguals as they construct scientific explanations in nine lessons. We use a framework informed by social semiotics to analyse the meanings made. The data revealed that an awareness of the visual metalanguage led to an enhanced commitment to illustrate the explanation of the phenomenon, illuminated key concepts and provided more context to the audience. In addition, teacher questioning became more focused.

Factual Question Generation System Using Pro Semantic Ranker

In today’s internet world the amount of materials available to learn and gain knowledge is immense in numbers, which has given access to a lot of people to gain knowledge easily. Is it possible to find out if someone has read this sentence? To arrive at a conclusion of whether or not someone has read something, we can ask them to summarize its contents or question them about it. We can start with basic questions that deal with the title or the abstract, and progress to more challenging questions. A good example of this process would be a primary school teacher questioning his or her students on the basics of what they are reading to make sure that they are learning. It is a time-consuming process to create the basic questions and reading assessments that are commonly used, and can be quite taxing on the educator. This paper focuses on automating that time-intensive process. To be precise, this paper deals with the problem of generation of the factual questions in an automated manner from stand-alone texts.

Critical thinking implementation in an English education course: Why is it so challenging?

Critical thinking has been acknowledged essential in education field but there have been debates on unclear instruction in implementing critical thinking skill in the classroom. Due to the urgency on the needs of critical thinking skill cultivation, this research aims to investigate the implementation of critical thinking skill instructional strategies in Critical Reading and Writing I and the students� perception towards their critical thinking skill in CRW I. In order to attain the data, the researchers employed mixed-method. Observation sheet, interview guidelines, close-ended and open-ended questionnaires were utilized. The data of the close-ended questionnaire set in the Likert Scale distributed to 17 students was analyzed by measuring the central tendency or the mean and it indicates that the value of the students� perceived critical thinking skills is 3.89 (middle to high) in which the highest 4.18 is on interpretation skill and the lowest 3.71 is analysis skill. Meanwhile, for the open-ended questionnaire, the data was analyzed utilizing coding procedure. Further, in analyzing the data of the interview, the researchers recorded the data into transcripts and analyzed them utilizing selective coding and it reveals that the instructional strategies used are explicit instruction, teacher questioning and active and cooperative learning.

English Teacher’s Questioning Strategy in EFL Classroom Interaction

This study investigated the types of English teacher’s questioning strategy and Students’ perceptions towards the use of teacher questioning strategy in EFL classroom interaction. This study was conducted at SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Palembang with five students as the participants taken from the twelfthgrade nature science students by using purposeful convenience sampling. In collecting data, the researcher used one-on-one interviews through open-ended questions. The interviews conducted in the class XII IPA 1. The result of this study that those were three types of English teacher’s questioning strategy, they were (1) procedural, convergent, and (3) divergent, and the students’ perceptions toward questioning strategy, they were (1) English reading activity, (2) English speaking activity, (3) English writing activity, and (4) English listening activity. This study indicated that those were the students’ perceptions towards the types of teacher’s questioning strategy that used in EFL classroom interaction at SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Palembang.

A Teacher Questioning Activity: The Use of Oral Open-ended Questions in Mathematics Classroom

This research aims to analyse a teacher’s questioning activity using oral open-ended questions in the mathematics classroom in three phases: the teacher asks open-ended mathematics questions orally, students answer the questions, and the teacher responds to the answers. This research involved a mathematics teacher and twenty-three year 7 students (aged eleven-twelve years old) in a secondary school in the UK. The samples were chosen using purposive sampling technique. The data collection technique used was three 45-minute-long lesson observations using field notes and audio-recordings. The notes and the transcript of the recording were analysed to find the answers for three research questions. The results showed that the teacher posed any kind of questions orally. The teacher asked two or three oral open-ended questions. Students answered those questions with different answer. The answers were not only correct, but also incorrect and incomplete. After getting an answer, the teacher responded by asking follow-up questions both closed and open-ended.