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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"rote learning"”.
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Breaking the shackles of rote learning: towards a transformative ELT pedagogy in a Saudi University English language programme
… teaching approaches to English language learning, rote learning persists. The English Language Institute (ELI) at Star University (pseudonym) in Saudi Arabia, the site of this study, encourages rote learning because it has to adhere to pacing guides, follow pre-selected textbooks, and …
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The Effect of Selected Incentive Conditions on The Performance of Psychopathic, Neurotic, and Normal Criminals in a Serial Rote Learning Situation
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The importance of English language learning and teaching in South Korea
This research investigates the impact of rote learning, national examinations and types of motivation to learn English language on the way English language is taught and learnt in Korea. The research is framed around two questions, using qualitative data in a discursive manner (Holstein & Gubrium, …
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Process/concept analysis of sixth-grade mathematics
… experiences and curriculum toward an emphasis on rote learning and algorithmic approaches to problem solving.
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Exploring the strategies used by grade 6 teachers in the teaching of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Ngwelezane Circuit schools
… encouraging an Active and Critical approach to learning rather than rote learning and uncritical learning of given truths. Teaching strategies play a role in developing the love of the subject. South African Science teachers are struggling due to inadequate Science content knowledge, pedagogic …
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Educators' perceptions and practices regarding early literacy instruction and language issues in a Cape Town township primary school
… of these ideas and practices on children’s learning. An ethnographic-style case study approach was used to examine classroom-based literacy and language practices. Qualitative classroom-based data indicated a disjuncture between educators' conceptualisations about early learning and their …
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Governmentality and Education: How is knowledge production in Irish secondary education complicit in fostering neo-liberal subjectivities
… exist through criticisms of the dominance of rote learning, and through engaging in some interactive and participartory learning. However, this is ultimately undermined by the centrality of the Leaving Certificate examinations which acts as a mediator of educational success in Ireland.
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A case study on the influence of English as a medium of instruction on learners academic performance at Ella Du Plessis Secondary School and Shikongo Iipinge Senior Secondary School
… and understand. -In most cases, learners are rote learning. -Failure to understand questions posed as well as instructions given. The study concludes that the academic performance of learners is influenced negatively and slightly positively by English as a medium of instruction. The study …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… education as an embodied experience, with learning and literacy grounded in what they called “object learning” or “the education of things.” Denouncing rote-learning in favor of an induction method, object lessons promised to coordinate the development of body and mind by using the pupil’s …
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Learning and Teaching in English: A Case Study of Higher Education in Libya
Abstract This thesis focuses on the learning and use of English as a tool of instruction inside Libyan universities. The study begins with an investigation of the challenges that students and lecturers face in the learning and teaching of the language of English in higher education. In-depth …
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The effect of generating errors on subsequent learning and generalization
… and consequently interfere with subsequent learning. However, mounting evidence suggests that generating errors during study may actually benefit learning. The error generation benefit is the finding that production of errors during study can enhance subsequent learning of the correct study …
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Teaching with style: computer aided instruction, personality and design education
… the possibility of automatically matching the learning styles of design students with appropriate styles of computer aided instruction (CAl). Individual adult learners exhibit preferences for the way information is presented and for the ways in which they are taught. These preferences arise …
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Bridging the Gap Between Students’ Cultural Norms and the Cultural Norms of Science: A Self-Study on Students’ Perceptions of Inquiry Activities and Culturally Relevant Lessons
… may not effectively enable students to move from rote learning to meaningful knowledge construction. The purpose of the self-study is to critically examine the use of inquiry and culturally relevant lessons to enable students to meaningfully construct knowledge in their secondary physics and …
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Exploring math teachers' own classroom experiences with deciding how to respond in the moment to student understanding
… 2000). However, math instruction centered on rote learning and memorization dominates U.S. classrooms, especially among African American students in urban public schools (Cuban, 2007; Davenport & Slate, 2019). Math teachers can support conceptual understanding by recognizing and responding to …
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Developing Adults' Oral English Communicative Competence in an EFL Environment: Collaborative Studies of a Chinese EFL Teacher and Her Students
… written tests. As a result, their oral English learning is largely overlooked. In addition, significant challenges exist for learning oral English at the college level: large-sized classes, an English-as-a-foreign-language-learning (EFL) environment, traditional rote learning, student diversity, …
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An analysis of dominant discourse in Grade 8 English Home Language textbooks
… transformation and a shift from the uncritical rote-learning which dominated Apartheid-era schooling. There have been three major curriculum shifts since 1994 and each change has required the production of new textbooks for every single school subject, usually within highly limited time-frames. …
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Revealing What Urban Early Childhood Teachers Think About Mathematics and How They Teach It: Implications for Practice
… of teaching mathematics, and views of children learning mathematics. The purpose of this study was to identify the attitudes and beliefs of early childhood teachers in two urban school districts to determine if mathematics reform efforts made a difference in teachers' attitudes and beliefs about …
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We all have stories to tell: the perception of international nurses regarding self-directed learning in higher education in the UK
… are expected to engage in self-directed learning (SDL) but their previous learning experience of rote learning in their home countries predispose them to non-alignment with instructional methods of SDL. This underscores the importance of this novel study which aims to uncover the nuances …
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Tools for learning: a socio-cultural analysis of pedagogy in early reading competency
… knowledge, practicing a concept, collaborative learning, conscious mediation, use of the ZPD, scaffolded learning, rote learning, worksheet-based learning, ability-group teaching and didactic teaching. The first six modes are Vygotskian in nature, of which the first four were the most frequently …
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Implementation of annual national assessment in the intermediate phase at King Cetshwayo district schools
… schools and methods of teaching which encourage rote learning. Most educators were unhappy that their district officials were not supportive during the administration phase. Educators raised concerns that Grade 4 learners have difficulty in understanding the questions since it is their first year …
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