2920 papers
This study demonstrates that mobile-mediated heuristic reading comprehension instruction significantly improves EFL teacher trainees' overall reading performance, with the most substantial gains observed in skimming and scanning sub-skills.
This paper argues that the semiotic approach is an essential interpretive framework for analyzing historical texts as complex symbolic systems that construct meaning, identity, and legitimacy, rather than as mere factual records, provided researchers possess a deep understanding of the underlying philosophical theories.
This qualitative case study reveals that while English lecturers leverage generative AI for efficiency in creating communicative speaking materials, they ultimately rely on their professional expertise to critically evaluate and contextualize AI-generated content, ensuring the final materials remain pedagogically sound and culturally relevant.
This study examines how repeated catastrophic floods in Bagnacavallo, Italy, reshape residents' risk perceptions and social dynamics, revealing that chronic environmental threats act as long-term stressors that generate a complex mix of cooperation, conflict, and institutional distrust while influencing collective engagement in climate mitigation.
This quasi-experimental study conducted in Nyarugenge District, Rwanda, demonstrates that Problem-Based Learning significantly improves lower secondary students' academic performance in chemical reactions compared to traditional lecture-based instruction.
This quantitative study of 160 teachers in Awi Zone, Ethiopia, reveals a strong positive correlation between performance appraisal practices and job motivation, identifying key systemic challenges like inadequate feedback and recommending more transparent, development-oriented appraisal systems to enhance teacher effectiveness.
This study of 277 platform workers in Guangzhou reveals that while existence, relatedness, and growth needs influence job performance through Subjective Well-Being, the specific pathways differ, with social needs impacting performance primarily by enhancing psychological wellbeing rather than through direct effects.
This study employs a socio-pragmatic analysis of directive speech acts in COVID-19 pandemic speeches by leaders from South Africa, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the UK to demonstrate how social and cultural factors influence propositional and essential felicity conditions, revealing that despite national differences, global speech patterns for requesting compliance remain consistent and are predicted to persist through 2025.
This phenomenological study analyzes the assertive, directive, and expressive illocutionary forces and their religious, symbolic, and social values within the Manggarai "forest girl" marriage proposal ritual, demonstrating how this linguistic-cultural practice fosters intercultural competence and supports the reconstruction of community ethics and ecological sustainability.
In a study of Spanish adults aged 55 and older, personal resources (such as resilience and meaning) and structural–relational circumstances (such as widowhood and education) were found to have additive, rather than interactive, associations with loneliness, suggesting that strengthening personal resources does not necessarily buffer the negative effects of adverse structural circumstances.