Teachers are one of the key elements in any school and effective teaching is one of the key
propellers for school improvement. This review is concerned with how to define a teacher's …

Traditional research on human learning has neglected people's beliefs about learning, the
role of culture in shaping those beliefs, and people's consequent learning behavior. Recent …

Guided by the self-system process model, the aim of this study was to unravel the
relationship between students' perceived teacher support and academic achievement as …

Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that
influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research …

Most students of English as a foreign language (EFL) lack sufficient opportunities to practice
their English-speaking skills. However, the recent development of social-networking sites …

Criticisms have recently been voiced of constructivism, the leading metaphor of human
learning since the 1970s. Inspired by inconsistencies in interpretations of constructivism in …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative
handbook dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. It has been …

Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of
enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally …

Just a decade ago a book that focused on culture and educational management would have
belonged in the domain of social-anthropologists. Cross-cultural analysis was simply …

This paper analyses of some changing aspects of learning and 'cultures of learning'in China:
these are related to meeting the needs of Chinese learners studying in higher education in …