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Sui, Dan-ni; Chen, Zheng – Online Submission, 2010
Based on LSA's (Latent Semantic Analysis) measuring textual coherence and Halliday and Hasan's cohesive concepts and their categorization of cohesive devices, this paper analyzes coherent relatedness and cohesive devices of 100 Chinese students' English writings. The results indicate that (1) LSA is proved to be an objective and appropriate method…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Semantics
Hernandez-Serrano, Maria Jose; Gonzales-Sanchez, Margarita – Online Submission, 2011
This paper reports on a project in which students' interactions with learning environments are investigated from the perspective of the spatial factors. Our research examines a significant dimension generated under the interrelationship between the subject and the virtual space, by establishing that spatial dimensions may determine the level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Cognitive Processes, Social Experience
Navarrete-Alvarez, Esteban; Rosales-Moreno, Maria Jesus; Huete-Morales, Maria Dolores – Online Submission, 2010
Statistics teaching should not be carried out in the same way for all kinds of university students. Instead, teaching statistics should take into account the different fields of study that students have chosen. For example, students of sciences or engineering have different interests and backgrounds compared to students of any social or juridical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Statistics, Labor, Teaching Methods