The chapter also examines the extent to which 15‐year‐olds have "learned how to learn" as indicated by their knowledge and use of specific learning strategies, such as understanding, remembering and summarising. Students' reading and learning habits are then related to their reading performance....
The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) concept suggests that learners can achieve more with the support of peers who are slightly more proficient, fostering collaborative efforts that promote language growth (Brown, 2014). Additionally, Social Constructivism, building upon Vygotsky’s ideas, asserts ...
Nothing devalues the moot-court experience for the students like unprepared or underprepared attorney judges. Unprepared judges cannot accurately assess the substance of a student’s argument and thus will reward superficial polish and bluster over truly proficient persuasion. Read the bench memo thorough...
In Elbaum et al. (2000), the gains for the poorest readers instructed with Reading Recovery were almost zero. There is also evidence that students who do complete the Reading Recovery sequence in first grade lose much of their gains, even in the 65-75% of better students who finish the p...
There’s a range of online resources that you can use to find recommendations for books for English learners. Here are some of them:Jellybooks lets you discover new books and provides readers with samples. You can read almost 10% of the book and decide whether you want to read the rest....
①Make predictions as to what is going to happen next in the text and be able to integrate and combine what has come with what is to come; ② Readers who are more proficient read selectively, continually making decisions about their reading. ③The prior knowledge that has been activated in...