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McLaughlan, Toni – Smart Learning Environments, 2023
This mixed-methods study explores international undergraduates' perceptions of social engagement with American peers at a US university comparing online to face-to-face environments. It addresses gaps in research on the social engagement of international undergraduates and on employing participant-generated visual approaches to investigation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Social Behavior, Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students
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Rouet, Jean-François; Le Bigot, Ludovic; de Pereyra, Guillaume; Britt, M. Anne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Three experiments investigated the role of source information (i.e., who said what) in readers' comprehension of short informational texts. Based on the Discrepancy-Induced Source Comprehension assumption (Braasch, Rouet, Vibert, & Britt, 2012), we hypothesized that readers would be more likely to make use of source information when…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Information Sources, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
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Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Biria, Reza; Zavari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the functional role of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in English and Persian Economic news reports. To this end, 10 news articles, 5 in each language, were randomly selected from the Economic sections of the leading newspapers published in 2013-2014 in Iran and the United States. Based on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Indo European Languages, Newspapers
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Necochea, Juan; Cline, Zulmara – Educational Forum, 2008
This exploratory study uses qualitative methods to analyze the impact of conversations in the Border Pedagogy "Cafes" on more than 500 binational educators from the Tijuana/San Diego area on the U.S.-Mexico border. Four important themes emerged from the analysis that describe the impact of the cafes and offer a strong foundation on which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Connected Discourse
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Roth, Kathleen; Garnier, Helen – Educational Leadership, 2007
Using the Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMSS) video study, the authors compare science teaching practices in the United States and in four other countries that outperformed the United States: Australia, the Czech Republic, Japan, and the Netherlands. Their observations of videotapes from 100 8th-grade science lessons in each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Science Instruction