Teacher preparation depends on deliberate practice with learners who have identifiable strengths and weaknesses, yet classroom experience accumulates slowly and is hard to standardize. Language-model-simulated students could offer scalable, repeatabl...
Learner control allows for greater autonomy and is supposed to benefit learning motivation, but it might be more advantageous for students with specific learner characteristics. The current study looks into the relationships between self-regulated le...
Learner-paced digital environments require students to self-initiate the onset of instructional content, yet the cognitive mechanisms by which this control affects information encoding remain poorly understood. The present study examined whether moto...
This study examined learner engagement in AI-supported informal digital learning of English (IDLE) by integrating L2 selves and control-value appraisals within a Control-Value Theory framework. Drawing on data from 653 Chinese university students, th...
Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the impact of a teacher professional learning (PL) program on English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers’ use of evidence-based instructional strategies for multilingual learners, collaboration...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can alter final second-language (L2) texts, yet cognitive differences may shape which changes emerge. This exploratory study examined 38 upper-intermediate learners of Russian who each produced one composition...
Generative AI can provide immediate and interactive support in EFL learning, yet learners must judge whether its outputs are trustworthy and educationally useful. Guided by control-value theory and evaluative judgement, this qualitative embedded sing...
In school settings, self-control is central to the ability of learners to complete their academic work successfully. Learners’ self-control is directly influenced by the ways in which educators execute their work, including their instructional explan...
This study introduces an Electronically Controlled Root Crop Processor, a compact, Arduino-powered simulator designed to transform hands-on learning for TVET students. Built with locally available materials, it seamlessly integrates grating and juice...
We report results from the implementation and impact evaluations of a three-week summer bridge mathematics program. This program was designed to challenge and support rising ninth grade students and in particular Multilingual Learners. We report the...
Cyborg insect control methods can be divided into invasive methods and noninvasive methods. Compared to invasive methods, noninvasive methods are much easier to implement, but they are sensitive to complex and highly uncertain environments, for which...
A learner’s cognitive load is highly associated with their academic achievement within learning systems. Diagnostic information about a learner’s cognitive load is useful for achieving optimal learning, by enabling the learner to manage and control t...
This study investigated the effect of interactive computer simulation-supported inquiry on South African grade 8 learners’ comprehension of atoms and molecular structures. Two sample groups of 34 learners per sample group were used, one acting...
Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The...
This exploratory study gives a first glance at the development of the perception of the Spanish /e/-/ei/ contrast by heritage learners in comparison to that of L2 learners in the classroom. To this end, two types of semester-long, explicit phonetic i...
Acquiring prosodic focus marking in a second language (L2) is difficult for learners whose native language utilizes strategies that differ from those of the target language. German typically uses pitch accents (L+H*/H*) to mark focus, while (Modern S...
The second language acquisition (SLA) field has recently seen heightened interest in the study and application of positive psychology (PP). Emotion regulation is one of the concepts that has been stressed in PP. Several studies in PP have delved into...
Contemporary digital platforms provide a large number of web services for learning and professional growth. In most cases, educational web services only control access when connecting to resources and platforms. However, for educational and similar r...
Little work has examined the L2 acquisition of Spanish stress, and especially the production of its acoustic correlates, and the work that has is largely limited to inexperienced learners. This study examines the production of stress by L1 English/L2...
Phishing websites are generated quickly and change their appearance to evade detection, so detectors must keep learning after deployment. Incremental learning allows a detector to update with every labeled instance, but which incremental learner to d...
This article proposes an interpretable adaptive control model for dynamically regulating task difficulty in Artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented reading-comprehension learning systems. The model adjusts, on the fly, the level of task complexity ass...
With a large-scale online K-12 teacher professional development course as the research context, this study examined the effects of facilitating feedback on online learners’ cognitive engagement using quasi-experiment method. A total of 1,540 discussi...
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems (AEHS) play a crucial role in supporting adaptive learning and immensely outperform learner-control based systems. AEHS’ page indexing and hyperspace rely mostly on navigation supports which provide the l...
Social validity refers to the social significance and acceptability of intervention goals, procedures, and outcomes. Animal practitioners, who are often guided by the principles of ABA, lack the benefit of verbal participants (at least with respect t...
This article explores the effects of different task repetition schedules on English learners’ oral fluency in terms of speed, breakdown, and repair indices using a PRAAT script to enhance objectivity and consistency in the assessment of learner...
Research on massive open online courses (MOOCs) has tended to focus on outcome indicators valued in traditional higher education settings, particularly achievement and completion. This study highlights the differences between MOOCs and credit-bearing...
The connection between collaborative learning and the new mobile technology has become tighter. Mobile learning enhances collaborative learning as learners can access information and learning materials from anywhere and at any time. However, supporti...
This study examined the complex relationships among task complexity, task-specific emotions, and learners’ L2 writing performance. Sixty-one Chinese EFL learners were divided into two groups and completed two writing tasks in a counterbalanced...
Vocabulary learning has been a challenge for second language (L2) learners, often due to its repetitive nature and the massive time investment it requires. To address these challenges, digital gamification features have been introduced to L2 learners...
This paper reports on a comprehensive phonetic study of American classroom learners of Russian, investigating the influence of the second language (L2) on the first language (L1). Russian and English productions of 20 learners were compared to 18 Eng...
This study critically evaluates a recent machine learning method called the X-Learner, that aims to estimate treatment effects by predicting counterfactual quantities. It uses information from the treated group to predict counterfactuals for the cont...
In disciplines such as epidemiology, economics, and public health, inference and estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) are critical. This approach helps reveal differences in treatment effect estimates between subgroups, which supports...
In second language education, the flipped classroom has been widely researched and increasingly applied as a teaching approach to improve the academic performance and engagement of English as a foreign language learners. However, learner engagement i...
Hypermedia learning environments place high demands on learners’ self-regulation, yet many learners struggle to plan, monitor, and evaluate their understanding. This study examined whether integrated metacognitive support improves self-regulate...
Personalized prompting research has shown the significant learning benefit of prompting. The current paper outlines and examines a personalized prompting approach aimed at eliminating performance differences on the basis of a number of learner charac...
Leveraging learner-driven insights to enhance the SFE can significantly influence food choices by decreasing the consumption of unhealthy foods and increasing access to healthier options. Using learners’ voices as important stakeholders in the...
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The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of simulation problem-based learning (S-PBL), a type of learning that reflects various clinical situations, and demonstration-based learning, a conventional type of learning that shows clinical ski...
Having proficiency in English macro skills has been of foremost importance among English language learners to have a sustainable education. Evidently, knowing English corresponds with being able to articulate the language. However, many language lear...
This study examined (a) the development of vocabulary breadth and vocabulary depth, operationalized as homonym knowledge, across one academic year (fall to spring) in Grades 1–4 for multilingual learners and English monolinguals and (b) the con...
A new method for estimating the conditional average treatment effect is proposed in this paper. It is called TNW-CATE (the Trainable Nadaraya–Watson regression for CATE) and based on the assumption that the number of controls is rather large an...
Creativity is a central educational aim, yet learners in special education are too often left out of discussions of how to cultivate it. Music is frequently proposed to support them, and Baroque music especially, but the usual rationale, that such mu...
Empirical studies investigating the second language (L2) acquisition of tense, aspect, mood/modality (TAM) systems offer an enlightening window into L2 learners’ linguistic competence because they involve all areas of a language, making them id...
This study explores the impact of two teaching methods on the Self-Efficacy in Physics of adult learners in Greek Second Chance Schools (SCSs), an institution designed to promote Lifelong Learning. The participants were divided into two groups. The e...
Self-directed learning (SDL) is one of the key competencies that provides the conditions necessary for adjustments to changes in the social context, and it should be developed from the early years of schooling. The effect of SDL on learners’ mo...
To analyze how variability changes over time can enhance the understanding of how learners’ self-efficacy, motivation, and satisfaction is controlled and why differences might exist among groups of individuals. Therefore, this study compared the effe...
A method for estimating the conditional average treatment effect under the condition of censored time-to-event data, called BENK (the Beran Estimator with Neural Kernels), is proposed. The main idea behind the method is to apply the Beran estimator f...
Learning in higher education is shaped not only by the amount of practice students complete but also by the temporal allocation of practice opportunities. This study presents and retrospectively evaluates a continuous-time framework that connects lea...
Among the most popular learning management systems (LMS) available worldwide is Moodle. This current study examines how learners’ attitudes toward English as a foreign language (EFL) and their language proficiency are affected by Moodle’s...
After the teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm was proposed, many improved algorithms have been presented in recent years, which simulate the teaching–learning phenomenon of a classroom to effectively solve global optimiz...
Large interactive displays can provide suitable workspaces for learners to conduct collaborative learning tasks with visual information in co-located settings. In this research, we explored the use of these displays to support collaborative engagemen...
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