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University Students' Intention to Use Search Engines for Research Purposes: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Lavidas, Konstantinos; Achriani, Anthi; Athanassopoulos, Stavros; Messinis, Ioannis; Kotsiantis, Sotiris – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Teaching empirical educational research in higher education involves implementing a very useful web tool for bibliography/scientific literature research, a search engine specifically employed for scientific papers, such as "Google Scholar". The aim of this study is to examine undergraduate students' acceptance of technology, through…
Descriptors: College Students, Intention, Search Engines, Student Research
A Social Constructionist Approach to Teaching and Learning Vocabulary for Italian for Academic Purposes
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Xerou, Eftychia; Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi; Parmaxi, Antigoni – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This study presents the way Parmaxi and Zaphiris's (2015) social constructionist framework was used in order to teach and learn vocabulary in an Italian for Specific Academic Purposes (ISAP) tertiary course. The participants (beginner students) were guided to build in groups an artifact, i.e a specific academic vocabulary collection. To do so,…
Descriptors: Italian, Constructivism (Learning), Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning