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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,018 Views
16 Pages

5 August 2024

This study reports the impact of a language mindset toolkit in influencing the language mindsets of Thai undergraduate students. An explanatory sequential mixed method design was used to determine how language mindset changes and know the students&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,307 Views
17 Pages

13 April 2025

While past research has affirmed the supportive role of growth language mindset (GLM) in fostering L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC), there remains a scarcity of studies exploring how growth language mindset may predict L2 WTC. This study aimed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,978 Views
18 Pages

1 August 2024

Learning English as a second language (ESL) has garnered significant attention from researchers and practitioners over the past few decades, with numerous ESL learning outcomes examined in the literature. However, self-sustained learning (SSL), a cru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,474 Views
20 Pages

30 September 2024

The importance of growth mindset and teachers’ feedback has been widely recognised to improve the English language performance of students; however, the impact of growth mindset as a mediator is least explored. Therefore, the study aimed to emp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,401 Views
18 Pages

A Study on Teachers’ Continuance Intention to Use Technology in English Instruction in Western China Junior Secondary Schools

  • Yi Xie,
  • Azzeddine Boudouaia,
  • Jinfen Xu,
  • Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri,
  • Asma Khattala,
  • Yan Li and
  • Ya Min Aung

28 February 2023

This study aimed to investigate the factors that affect the continuance intention to use technology among English teachers in China, mainly by examining the direct effects of help seeking, interest, effort regulation, growth mindset, facilitating con...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,394 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2025

This paper discusses the interrelation between personality and intelligence in acquiring a second language (L2). From 13 studies and the available literature, it determines that extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness, as well as subdomains of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,451 Views
25 Pages

26 November 2019

This research pinpoints a local pattern of migratory aesthetics recurrently employed by four Israeli artists in the early years of the 21st century. I argue that works by artists Philip Rantzer, Gary Goldstein, Haim Maor, and David Wakstein showcase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,292 Views
18 Pages

Teachers’ beliefs on issues of multilingualism shape their classroom practices, which in turn affect their multilingual students’ learning opportunities and academic achievement. Examining these beliefs is therefore crucial for teacher ed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,450 Views
15 Pages

Enhancing Automatic Modulation Recognition for IoT Applications Using Transformers

  • Narges Rashvand,
  • Kenneth Witham,
  • Gabriel Maldonado,
  • Vinit Katariya,
  • Nishanth Marer Prabhu,
  • Gunar Schirner and
  • Hamed Tabkhi

9 April 2024

Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) is vital for accurately identifying modulation types within incoming signals, a critical task for optimizing operations within edge devices in IoT ecosystems. This paper presents an innovative approach that leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,853 Views
28 Pages

14 October 2024

The role of non-cognitive skills in academic achievement has garnered increasing attention in educational research. This study explores the impact of non-cognitive skills on academic achievement in STEM and non-STEM subjects in secondary education. S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,716 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2017

This paper reports on the ground-breaking research in the study of languages in doctoral education. It argues for democratizing the production and dissemination of original contributions to knowledge through activating and mobilizing multilingual Hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,544 Views
16 Pages

Understanding Students’ Perception of Sustainability: Educational NLP in the Analysis of Free Answers

  • Hiroko Yamano,
  • John Jongho Park,
  • Nathan Hyungsok Choe and
  • Ichiro Sakata

27 October 2022

This study explored undergraduate students’ conceptions of sustainable development by asking about their definition of a sustainable world, current issues of sustainable development, and the necessary mindset and skillsets to build a sustainabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,850 Views
13 Pages

1 January 2021

This paper illustrates the efficiency of implementing an inquiry-based teaching and learning module on the development of workplace communication competence and collaborative mindset in a college-level English as a Foreign Language context. In partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,942 Views
20 Pages

Earning Your Way into General Education: Perceptions about Autism Influence Classroom Placement

  • Emily Frake,
  • Michelle Dean,
  • Linh N. Huynh,
  • Suzannah Iadarola and
  • Connie Kasari

19 October 2023

The language used by teachers, school staff, and parents to talk about autistic students can send either positive or negative messages to other school staff, parents, and all students—with or without autism—about autistic students. Ultima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,782 Views
20 Pages

Cognitive Networks and Text Analysis Identify Anxiety as a Key Dimension of Distress in Genuine Suicide Notes

  • Massimo Stella,
  • Trevor James Swanson,
  • Andreia Sofia Teixeira,
  • Brianne N. Richson,
  • Ying Li,
  • Thomas T. Hills,
  • Kelsie T. Forbush and
  • David Watson

Understanding the mindset of people who die by suicide remains a key research challenge. We map conceptual and emotional word–word co-occurrences in 139 genuine suicide notes and in reference word lists, an Emotional Recall Task, from 200 indiv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,919 Views
23 Pages

7 June 2022

Sustainability in education is essential in raising awareness among pupils regarding the interconnected global challenges that we are facing and, at the same time, cultivating and transforming their mindsets to embrace and adopt sustainable lifestyle...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
19,186 Views
17 Pages

Precision Agriculture for Resource Use Efficiency in Smallholder Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

  • Cecilia M. Onyango,
  • Justine M. Nyaga,
  • Johanna Wetterlind,
  • Mats Söderström and
  • Kristin Piikki

22 January 2021

Opportunities exist for adoption of precision agriculture technologies in all parts of the world. The form of precision agriculture may vary from region to region depending on technologies available, knowledge levels and mindsets. The current review...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,353 Views
16 Pages

14 March 2021

The United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are interconnected and indivisible and need to be addressed in a systematic and holistic way. However, a lack of stakeholder perspective, fragmented responses, and a dearth of integration acros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,638 Views
11 Pages

1 May 2021

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Chinese evangelicals have rarely interacted. Even if it seems that Eastern Orthodox Christianity and its theology have hardly influenced Chinese evangelicals in the past, this article demonstrates the possibility tha...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,854 Views
10 Pages

Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name

  • Susan L. Prescott,
  • Ashka Naik and
  • Alan C. Logan

Over the last decade, volumes of international studies have illuminated the potential harms associated with ultra-processed products sold as foods. These potential harms include, but are not limited to, an increased risk of non-communicable diseases,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,829 Views
12 Pages

29 August 2023

Objectives: This study aims to make radiotherapy knowledge regarding healthcare accessible to the general public by developing an AI-powered chatbot. The interactive nature of the chatbot is expected to facilitate better understanding of information...

  • Review
  • Open Access
114 Citations
10,550 Views
16 Pages

4 March 2020

This systematic review of research used science mapping as a means of analyzing the knowledge base on education for sustainable development (ESD) in K-12 schooling. The review documented the size, growth trajectory and geographic distribution of this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,863 Views
27 Pages

Refactoring Loops in the Era of LLMs: A Comprehensive Study

  • Alessandro Midolo and
  • Emiliano Tramontana

12 September 2025

Java 8 brought functional programming to the Java language and library, enabling more expressive and concise code to replace loops by using streams. Despite such advantages, for-loops remain prevalent in current codebases as the transition to the fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,733 Views
15 Pages

Equal Opportunity Beliefs beyond Black and White American Christianity

  • Jerry Z. Park,
  • Joyce C. Chang and
  • James C. Davidson

10 July 2020

Scholars in critical race and the sociology of religion have independently drawn attention to the ways in which cultural ideologies drive beliefs about inequalities between groups. Critical race work on “abstract liberalism” highlights no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,640 Views
24 Pages

Examining Evacuee Response to Emergency Communications with Agent-Based Simulations

  • C. Natalie van der Wal,
  • Daniel Formolo,
  • Mark A. Robinson and
  • Steven Gwynne

21 April 2021

To improve communication during emergencies, this research introduces an agent-based modeling (ABM) method to test the effect of psychological emergency communication strategies on evacuation performance. We follow a generative social science approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
14,666 Views
20 Pages

Moral Education for Sustainable Development: Comparison of University Teachers’ Perceptions in China and Pakistan

  • Tahseen Asif,
  • Ouyang Guangming,
  • Muhammad Asif Haider,
  • Jordi Colomer,
  • Sumaira Kayani and
  • Noor ul Amin

9 April 2020

Sustainable development is promoted when the system of education provides the learners with an opportunity to equip themselves with moral values, skills, and competences that assist them in effecting personal and community positive changes. For this...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,237 Views
48 Pages

Due to huge investments by both the public and private sectors, artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous progress in solving multiple real-world problems such as disease diagnosis, chatbot misbehavior, and crime control. However, the large-sc...