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Curriculum, Teaching, and Assessment Gaps in Arabic Teacher Education: A Transformative Learning Integration Model (TLIM)

This paper identifies critical gaps between syllabus intent and evidence-based design in Arabic teacher education at Universitas Islam Riau through a documentary audit and stakeholder validation, leading to the proposal of the Transformative Learning Integration Model (TLIM) to coordinate problem-based learning, self-regulated cycles, and AI within a transformative learning framework.

Saproni Muhammad Samin2026-07-07
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Intimate Massage Salons in Russia: TheGrey Literature Review with Hypothesis Generation and Qualitative Content Analysis

This paper presents a systematic review of grey literature and qualitative analysis revealing that intimate massage salons in Russia operate as a systemic shadow business exploiting vulnerable workers through a hierarchical structure, facilitated by legal ambiguities that hinder effective law enforcement and necessitate comprehensive legislative and social reforms.

Timofey Bezuglyy2026-07-07
📄 social science

Revisiting AI-Driven Speaking Practice and EAP Replication Study among Turkish Learners

This exploratory replication study demonstrates that Turkish EAP learners who engaged in four weeks of AI chatbot practice showed measurable improvements in oral fluency, reduced speaking anxiety, and increased learner independence, with acoustic and qualitative data suggesting early proceduralization of language skills and a shift toward more ambitious linguistic output.

alireza navidmoghaddam gavgani2026-07-07
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Evaluating Conceptual Framing in AI-Generated Educational Writing: A Cognitive-Linguistic Analysis of Student Revision

This study employs cognitive-linguistic analysis to demonstrate how Gulf Arabic-speaking undergraduate students revise AI-generated essays on parental authority by selectively retaining, eliminating, or replacing metaphorical schemas to shift the conceptual framing from formative shaping toward guidance and conditional involvement, thereby revealing and mitigating potential cultural biases in generative AI.

Marina Jovic, Mirka Ćirović2026-07-07
📄 social science

From Manipulation to Meaning-Making: Dialogic Inquiry in Virtual-Lab-Supported Physics Classrooms in Brazil

This study demonstrates that in resource-limited Brazilian physics classrooms, virtual laboratories effectively support dialogic inquiry by shifting discourse from procedural manipulation to evidence-based reasoning, with observation-based exploratory talk serving as a critical bridge between simulation interaction and conceptual understanding.

Luwei Bai, Sara Hennessy, Alison Twiner2026-07-07
📄 social science

Effects of an Outcome-Based Education-oriented BOPPPS teaching model integrated with artistic drawing on pathology laboratory learning in nursing students: a randomized controlled trial

This randomized controlled trial demonstrates that an Outcome-Based Education-oriented BOPPPS teaching model integrated with artistic drawing significantly improves pathology laboratory examination scores, innovation ability, and self-directed learning skills among nursing students compared to traditional instruction.

Zuoya She, Ziwei Huang, Jiangyin Zhang, Yue Peng, Bingyao Lu, Limei Li, Zhenhua Huang, Binbin Wen2026-07-07
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Social skills and learning motivation as predictors of academic achievement among Ethiopian Teacher Education Students

This study of Ethiopian pre-service teachers reveals that social skills and learning motivation are significant predictors of academic achievement, with social competencies accounting for 36.9% of the variance in student performance and female students demonstrating higher cooperative and problem-solving abilities than their male counterparts.

Samuel Kefelew, Desalegn Woldie2026-07-07
📄 social science

Teachers’ Perspectives on Climate Change Effects on Foundation Phase Learners’ Behaviour and Learning

This qualitative case study in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, reveals that extreme weather conditions associated with climate change significantly impair Foundation Phase learners' behavior and academic performance by causing fatigue, distraction, and absenteeism, thereby highlighting the urgent need for adaptive infrastructure and teaching practices.

Mia Jenna Kreusch, Sikhulile Bonginkosi Msezane2026-07-07
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Invisible Victims, Visible Crimes: Child Labour and Organized Criminality in India and Mexico

This article employs a mixed socio-legal comparative analysis of India and Mexico to argue that child labour is frequently obscured as mere poverty or informality, when it is in fact a visible crime intertwined with organized criminality that demands a rights-based social work approach to transform institutional invisibility into effective protection and rehabilitation systems.

Sahil Kumar Sahil, Priyanka Gupta Priyanka2026-07-07
📄 social science

Analyzing the dissemination path mechanism of China's rural cultural heritage in Rizhao based on the improved TTF-UTAUT combined model:Taking Rizhao green tea as the research object

This study employs an improved TTF-UTAUT integrated model and structural equation modeling on 1,442 survey responses to demonstrate that task–technology fit, driven by technological suitability and cultural perception, significantly mediates the relationship between digital platform factors and users' actual dissemination behavior of Rizhao green tea as a form of rural cultural heritage.

Zhenchao Zhao, Getong Liu, Ling Yu, ChangYu Liu2026-07-07