Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Teachers’ Perceptions of Blended Learning Programs in Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) of Gulf Region
In recent years, researchers and educators have been discussing the benefits of blending online and traditional face-to-face learning. Blended learning has moved into the center stage of higher education. Blended learning addresses the way e-learning is combined with traditional teaching method and independent study approach to create a new, hybrid teaching methodology which has been …
Who Cares? On the Role of Caring in Teaching and Learning with Students with SEND
What does caring mean within the role of an educator of students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)? Considering care, not as physical assistance or support with personal tasks, but as a part of the ways in which teacher and student work with one another in learning. To care for another is to hold …
4th IR – Implications for Higher Education
During the 4th industrial revolution (4th IR) the world will see the emergence of a new form of institutions of higher learning. These institutions will have no classrooms, no library and no onsite lecturers. The institutions will be inter-disciplinary, will have virtual classrooms and laboratories, the library will be online and the lecturers will either …
Students into Schools: Promoting Interdependent Learning Through Language Pedagogy Training
Classrooms across the UK are becoming increasingly diverse, multicultural and multilingual learning environments with approximately one in five pupils speaking English as an additional language (EAL). In many schools in the Leeds area, the proportion of EAL pupils is between 50% and 90% (Strand et al, 2015). The University of Leeds operates a successful Students …
Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Audiovisual Material: The Focus on Cultural Diversity
One of the most revelant and controversial issues in the process of teaching and learning English as a lingua franca is the importance and place of culture taking into consideration a globalized and multicultural world. People of different cultural backgrounds meet around the world and because of this fact they have, in a way or …
Personal and Collective Narrative Meaning Making in the EFL Classroom
Personal experience narratives are among the dominant forms of folklore. Through these stories, we make individual meaning and negotiate collective meanings simultaneously. Such a pervasive narrative practice should find a prominent role in FL teaching and learning. In order to feel a foreign language, we must first of all feel it as a genuine means …
Machine Learning to Augment Capabilities of Autistic Learners: Draw Me a Sentence
Autistic learners face considerable pressures during their education years impacting their overall well-being both physically and psychologically. One of the key challenges they face is the speed and quality of their writing skills, and the research proposed here advocates an innovative new way of helping those learners. The premise of the approach is to identify, …
Effectiveness of Use of Code-switching in Teaching English Language to Undergraduates
At tertiary level, most of the study programmes are offered in the medium of English at state universities in Sri Lanka though the majority of the students have pursued their secondary education in Sinhala/ Tamil medium. Consequently, their low proficiency level in English hinders the performance at examinations at the university. The undergraduates of the …
From I to We to “ME”
I posit that the quantum worldview can recreate modern education. An education anchored in quantum philosophy can awaken human minds and show ways on how we can live in harmony and balance. Using grounded theory as a method of inquiry, I have uncovered a phenomenon, a sense of home. I have been awakened in an …
Analysing Affective Factors in Relation to Students’ Achievement and Behaviour in EFL in Saudi Arabia
Considerable amount of research has been carried out to investigate language learning variables, but little attention has been paid to examining the correlation among language learning variables. In this regard, Gardner et al. (1997, p.347), pointed out that “it seems obvious that variables do not operate independently of one another”. Therefore, my study focuses on …