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Hernández-Romero, Lili; Sun, Xiaokun – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2021
Since the first curriculum reform in the 1990s, education reforms in China have aimed at creating a student-centred education model based on creativity. The effectiveness of such strategies is, however, questionable. This paper explores the current level of supportive learning environment at elementary schools. Through empirical research conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Class Activities, Learning Activities
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Luisa Losada-Puente; Raúl Fraguela-Vale; Alejandra Facal – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
The aim was to explore the literature for instruments that assess school well-being, identifying their design features and construct appropriateness. A systematic review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020, and the PICO strategy to formulate the research questions. Fifty-two…
Descriptors: Well Being, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Measurement Techniques
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Yijia Yuan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This experimental research examined the effectiveness of using chatbots in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms at a Chinese elementary school. Seventy-four students were divided into two groups: one employing traditional methods, and the other using chatbots. Before and after the 3-month teaching period, pre- and post-tests were used to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, English (Second Language)
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Lin, Wang – English Language Teaching, 2017
A sentence is an important unit in English language, and plays a crucial role in language teaching and learning as well. For many years, sentence teaching is always worth discussion in English teaching, because sentence imitation is very important for students' construction of logical discourse. This paper, based on memetics, proposes some certain…
Descriptors: Imitation, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Foreign Countries
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Yun Dai; Ziyan Lin; Ang Liu; Wenlan Wang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
While AI has become more prevalent in our society than ever, many young learners are found holding various naive, erroneous conceptions of AI due to the influence of their technology and media environments. To address this issue, this study seeks to propose a novel pedagogical solution to improve upper-elementary school students' scientific…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Wang, Qiuying; Andrews, Jean F. – Deafness & Education International, 2017
The national policy in deaf education in Mainland China primarily focuses on oral/aural instruction and hearing rehabilitation. The curriculum in primary grades is specifically structured on speech and hearing skills for language development. But there is little evidence that documents what early literacy instruction looks like or how teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Deafness, Elementary Education
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Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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He, Xiaojun; Lazo, Xia – English Language Teaching, 2015
The current social backgrounds have made English learning become an important part in every Chinese student's life. Tibetan students begin to study Tibetan, Chinese and English from primary school. However, in many Chinese ethnic-minorities areas like Tibetan areas, English education is facing many problems and challenges, especially the English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, FLES, English (Second Language)
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McNaught, Carmel; Lok, Beatrice; Yin, Hongbiao; Lee, John Chi-Kin; Song, Huan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
Classroom experience is shaped by a number of factors. In this paper, we report a classroom observation study in China, illustrating regional variation in students' classroom learning experiences. Through comparing and contrasting observed classroom practices in three different regions in China (Chongqing, Hong Kong and Shanghai), the paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis
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Lu, Meichen; Cui, Manlin; Shi, Yaojiang; Chang, Fang; Mo, Di; Rozelle, Scott; Johnson, Natalie – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
One of the Millennium Development Goals is to ensure universal access to primary education by 2015. However, primary school dropout remains a challenge in many developing countries. While official statistics in China report aggregated primary school dropout of only 0.2%, almost no independent, survey-based studies have sought to verify these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Access to Education, Academic Persistence
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Ding, Meixia – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2016
This study, focusing on inverse relations, examines how representative U.S. and Chinese elementary textbooks may provide opportunities to learn fundamental mathematical ideas. Findings from this study indicate that both of the U.S. textbook series (grades K-6) in comparison to the Chinese textbook samples (grades 1-6), presented more instances of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Textbooks, Elementary Education
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Qi, Grace Yue – Multilingual Education, 2016
English has become a compulsory subject from Primary Three in China since 2003 and is gradually being introduced even earlier into the curriculum in many schools. This highlights the official importance of English in both primary school education and society. However, although a compulsory subject, there are fewer English lessons than for Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Limin; Van Dooren, Wim; Chen, Qi; Verschaffel, Lieven – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
In the present study, which is a part of a research project about realistic word problem solving and problem posing in Chinese elementary schools, a problem solving and a problem posing test were administered to 128 pre-service and in-service elementary school teachers from Tianjin City in China, wherein the teachers were asked to solve 3…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Jing, Jinxiu – English Language Teaching, 2013
The theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI theory), put forward by Gardner in 1983, claims that each person possesses different combinations of nine intelligences. In education, it advocates that teachers should address students' personal uniqueness and provide a wide range of intelligence-oriented activities and experiences to facilitate learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Elementary Education, Multiple Intelligences
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Li, Yeping – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
In an effort to gain a better understanding of Chinese classroom teaching culture, this study aimed to examine elementary teachers' views about a good mathematics lesson in China. Through analyzing 57 teachers' essays collected from 7 elementary schools in 2 provinces, it is found that Chinese teachers emphasized the most about students and their…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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