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Huong, Le Pham Hoai; Hung, Bui Phu – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Given the emergence of the use of digital tools in English teaching and learning and of sociocultural theory (SCT) in recent years, this paper sets out to introduce the concepts of tools, digital tools, and mediation in SCT. It then argues for the ground for enhancing and promoting the use of digital tools in English learning and teaching. Studies…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Huma, Afshan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
As a part of a huge intervention in teacher education programs in Pakistan the author had a firsthand experience of how the "habits of mind" hinder in changing the practices and cultures of teachers and institutions respectively. It has been a part of traditional teaching in Pakistan that only one text book is followed by teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
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Carlson, Lynn – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2013
Educators today are faced with learning to implement the Common Core Standards in Language Arts and Math. Administrators are requiring grade level general education teachers/special education teachers to meet in Private Learning Communities in order to discuss the best ways to implement the CCS as well as to discuss best practices for writing…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Grade 1
Ali, Tanzeem Iqbal – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A neo-culture of extra-curricular coaching prior to sitting the terminal exam was once the privileged domain of public education systems in the Eastern world, but this is no longer the case. This multi-phase study based on a grounded theory approach considered a diversity of physics learning experiences of students and alumni from two urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Physics, Science Instruction
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Williams, Trevor; Williams, Kitty – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Reciprocal determinism is a central premise of Bandura's (1986) social cognitive theory. Studies of the relationship between self-beliefs and performance tend to draw on this or related theories and usually endorse the notion of reciprocal determinism at a substantive-theoretical level. However, attempts to model this postulated mutual influence…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Self Efficacy, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Skills
Anang, Arlene J. – 1982
Focusing on the social nature of reading instruction provides another direction to research and study that both differs from and adds to cognitive research. H. Mehan's theory of social constructivism emphasizes that the development of cognitive processes occurs within the individual through the internalization of interactions between learners and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences