Jhonatan Vásquez-Guarnizo, Maribel Chía-Ríos, Mairon Felipe Tobar-Gómez
This article reports a case study conducted with twelve students from the Modern/Foreign Languages program at a public university in Colombia. It sought to unveil EFL Student’s perceptions on Gender Stereotypes through three different moments. At first, students expressed their thoughts after being exposed to a film. Then, their point of views were heard through the exposure of some before/now photographs; and lastly, they provided their insights through their own artwork. Data was gathered through focus group interviews, field notes and students’ artifacts. Findings showed that students’ perceptions on gender stereotypes differ from their past generations and the way they see their future have made their minds change over the time.
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This reflection paper disseminates the design and implementation of an English placement test for first semester students from different majors. This design was carried out within the framework of a research project in a Colombian public university. The article seeks to scrutinize the stages leading to a test, so that language teachers who embark for the first time on the task of designing placement exams have a model and can anticipate the various vicissitudes of academic and administrative nature that may arise. The conclusions derived from the process of construction and implementation of the test highlight the lack of training and literacy in the area of language testing, as well as the existing tensions between academic expectations and the administration within a university institution.
{"title":"Challenges in the Design and Implementation of an English Placement Test for a Colombian Public University","authors":"Alexánder Ramírez","doi":"10.26817/16925777.825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.825","url":null,"abstract":"This reflection paper disseminates the design and implementation of an English placement test for first semester students from different majors. This design was carried out within the framework of a research project in a Colombian public university. The article seeks to scrutinize the stages leading to a test, so that language teachers who embark for the first time on the task of designing placement exams have a model and can anticipate the various vicissitudes of academic and administrative nature that may arise. The conclusions derived from the process of construction and implementation of the test highlight the lack of training and literacy in the area of language testing, as well as the existing tensions between academic expectations and the administration within a university institution.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80059844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the context of advocacy of the rights of minorities, communities should learn more about the learning rights of students who experience hearing loss. This paper reports a qualitative case study that looked into the perspectives and retrospectives on learning in integrated classrooms of three hard of hearing participants. They identified problems of the reproduction of inequalities such as lack of special arrangements to meet their needs. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of how these learners struggled and made sense of their schooled L2 learning. For the Hard of Hearing, listening goes beyond perceiving sounds. Their interpretation draws on attitudes, affectivity, body language, and context. They hear with their ears but listen with the other senses. They require analyzing the environment, the facial expression, how people talk, the tone of voice, the behavior, the movements, the place and the moment to figure out messages; words alone are insufficient. Participants insisted that their invisible disability requires specific pedagogies and the support of communities. The results of the study fell in three dimensions: The Affective Dimension referred to family, classmates and teachers’ empathy, or lack of it, towards their condition. The Communicative Dimension involved the participants’ perception of communication with teachers, classmates, and their self-perception of communication. The Attitudinal Dimension involved the perception of the attitude of teachers, institutions, and their own attitudes towards L2 learning. The results suggest that 1. HHs feel capable of mastering an L2 in integrated classrooms, 2. Language policies and standardized exams misrepresent the HHs’ capabilities, and 3. Classroom equity demands material selection and methodological adjustments.
{"title":"Voices of the Har-of-Hearing about their L2 Acquisition Struggles: A Case Study","authors":"Rigoberto Castillo, L. S. Florez-Martelo","doi":"10.26817/16925777.822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.822","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of advocacy of the rights of minorities, communities should learn more about the learning rights of students who experience hearing loss. This paper reports a qualitative case study that looked into the perspectives and retrospectives on learning in integrated classrooms of three hard of hearing participants. They identified problems of the reproduction of inequalities such as lack of special arrangements to meet their needs. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of how these learners struggled and made sense of their schooled L2 learning. For the Hard of Hearing, listening goes beyond perceiving sounds. Their interpretation draws on attitudes, affectivity, body language, and context. They hear with their ears but listen with the other senses. They require analyzing the environment, the facial expression, how people talk, the tone of voice, the behavior, the movements, the place and the moment to figure out messages; words alone are insufficient. Participants insisted that their invisible disability requires specific pedagogies and the support of communities. The results of the study fell in three dimensions: The Affective Dimension referred to family, classmates and teachers’ empathy, or lack of it, towards their condition. The Communicative Dimension involved the participants’ perception of communication with teachers, classmates, and their self-perception of communication. The Attitudinal Dimension involved the perception of the attitude of teachers, institutions, and their own attitudes towards L2 learning. The results suggest that 1. HHs feel capable of mastering an L2 in integrated classrooms, 2. Language policies and standardized exams misrepresent the HHs’ capabilities, and 3. Classroom equity demands material selection and methodological adjustments.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79462443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This qualitative interpretive study carried out with four EFL teachers in an EAP course at a private university in Bogotá, Colombia addresses the disconnection that exists between curricular content and the life of students in education. From our understanding of literacy as a sociocultural practice we proposed a pedagogy that immersed teachers and students in community explorations to study local issues informed by different disciplines. Therefore, this study describes the ways teachers designed and implemented curriculum using community assets (Kretzmann & McKnight, 2003) to develop student agency. The issues addressed by students in their inquiries included improving civic practices in the cycling route; fostering river preservation; environmental issues with garbage in Bogotá; and possibilities to access higher education for young populations in Colombia. Using a grounded theory approach, we collected and analyzed data from class discussions, curricular units, semi-structured interviews and class observation. Findings reveal that community explorations fostered students’ agency towards studying social issues and promoted the construction of context-embedded opportunities for learning using students’ realities and topics of local relevance (Canagarajah 2005). The target language was used to reflect, pose problems, produce texts and participate in social reflections within an academic environment.
{"title":"Situating Local Literacies at the core of ELT Curriculum in Higher Education","authors":"Yuly Andrea Nieto-Gómez, Amparo Clavijo-Olarte","doi":"10.26817/16925777.830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.830","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative interpretive study carried out with four EFL teachers in an EAP course at a private university in Bogotá, Colombia addresses the disconnection that exists between curricular content and the life of students in education. From our understanding of literacy as a sociocultural practice we proposed a pedagogy that immersed teachers and students in community explorations to study local issues informed by different disciplines. Therefore, this study describes the ways teachers designed and implemented curriculum using community assets (Kretzmann & McKnight, 2003) to develop student agency. The issues addressed by students in their inquiries included improving civic practices in the cycling route; fostering river preservation; environmental issues with garbage in Bogotá; and possibilities to access higher education for young populations in Colombia. Using a grounded theory approach, we collected and analyzed data from class discussions, curricular units, semi-structured interviews and class observation. Findings reveal that community explorations fostered students’ agency towards studying social issues and promoted the construction of context-embedded opportunities for learning using students’ realities and topics of local relevance (Canagarajah 2005). The target language was used to reflect, pose problems, produce texts and participate in social reflections within an academic environment. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81426919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diskursus pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi era 4.0 mengemuka hingga akhir tahun 2019 seakan hilang ditelan Covid-19. Realitas tersebut mendorong penulisan ini mengulas situasi pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi 4.0 dalam era pandemi Covid-19. Berdasarkan analisis secara reflektif sosiologis dapat disimpulkan bahwa; Pertama; pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi era 4.0 merupakan gagasan transformasi sistem pendidikan tinggi menuju digitalisasi melalui resistematisasi kurikulum akademik yang kompetibel dengan lapangan kerja industri yang mendorong desain kebijakan pengembangan disiplin ilmu dan program studi menuju Cyber University yang dapat menawarkan model pembelajaran daring distance learning dengan dukungan sumber daya dosen yang profesional, responsif dan mampu melakukan terobosan riset. Dan, kedua; pandemi Covid-19 telah menjadi koreksi penting yang menunjukkan kelemahan utama gagasan besar sistem digitalisasi kampus atau Cyber University dan sistem pembelajaran daring distance learning karena sarana sistem jaringan telekomunikasi Indonesia belum merata. Meskipun demikian, terdapat dinamika positif selama pandemi yakni terciptanya ruang akademik virtual bagi dosen dan mahasiswa melalui webinar dalam skala terbatas serta terjadi peningkatan literasi digital yang masif di daerah dengan akses jaringan yang memadai.
{"title":"Pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi Era 4.0 Dalam Pandemi Covid-19 (Refleksi Sosiologis)","authors":"Bisyri Abdul Karim","doi":"10.33096/eljour.v1i2.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33096/eljour.v1i2.52","url":null,"abstract":"Diskursus pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi era 4.0 mengemuka hingga akhir tahun 2019 seakan hilang ditelan Covid-19. Realitas tersebut mendorong penulisan ini mengulas situasi pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi 4.0 dalam era pandemi Covid-19. Berdasarkan analisis secara reflektif sosiologis dapat disimpulkan bahwa; Pertama; pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi era 4.0 merupakan gagasan transformasi sistem pendidikan tinggi menuju digitalisasi melalui resistematisasi kurikulum akademik yang kompetibel dengan lapangan kerja industri yang mendorong desain kebijakan pengembangan disiplin ilmu dan program studi menuju Cyber University yang dapat menawarkan model pembelajaran daring distance learning dengan dukungan sumber daya dosen yang profesional, responsif dan mampu melakukan terobosan riset. Dan, kedua; pandemi Covid-19 telah menjadi koreksi penting yang menunjukkan kelemahan utama gagasan besar sistem digitalisasi kampus atau Cyber University dan sistem pembelajaran daring distance learning karena sarana sistem jaringan telekomunikasi Indonesia belum merata. Meskipun demikian, terdapat dinamika positif selama pandemi yakni terciptanya ruang akademik virtual bagi dosen dan mahasiswa melalui webinar dalam skala terbatas serta terjadi peningkatan literasi digital yang masif di daerah dengan akses jaringan yang memadai.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78586686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pembelajaran merupakan instrumen penting mencerdaskan kehidupan Bangsa. Sebagai suatu sistem penting dalam pendidikan, pembelajaran diselenggarakan sebagai ruang interaksi terbangunnya relasi guru dan peserta didik mengembangkan potensi kognitif, psikomotorik dan afektif. Hal ini harus didukung dengan dinamika pembelajaran yang berjalan secara efektif dan suasana belajar internal yang membuat peserta didik tertarik belajar. Pembelajaran juga dapat dipengaruhi oleh faktor eksternal, seperti dengan adanya wabah Covid-19. Realitas menunjukkan bahwa dinamika pembelajaran di Indonesia saat ini terganggu oleh wabah Covid-19 yang memberikan dampak diantaranya; 1) sekolah dialihkan ke rumah melalui proses pembelajaran daring; 2) terjadi transformasi media pembelajaran berbasis teknologi melalui penggunaan Wathshap Group, Zoom, Google Classroom, WebEx, Youtube, dan saluran TV (TVRI); 3) penyesuaian metode pembelajaran; 4) penyesuaian evaluasi pembelajaran untuk penentuan standar kenaikan kelas dan kelulusan; dan 5) tuntutan kolaborasi orangtua peserta didik di rumah sebagai pengganti guru mengontro pembelajaran anak.
{"title":"Dampak COVID-19 Terhadap Dinamika Pembelajaran Di Indonesia","authors":"Abdul Mansyur","doi":"10.33096/eljour.v1i2.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33096/eljour.v1i2.53","url":null,"abstract":"Pembelajaran merupakan instrumen penting mencerdaskan kehidupan Bangsa. Sebagai suatu sistem penting dalam pendidikan, pembelajaran diselenggarakan sebagai ruang interaksi terbangunnya relasi guru dan peserta didik mengembangkan potensi kognitif, psikomotorik dan afektif. Hal ini harus didukung dengan dinamika pembelajaran yang berjalan secara efektif dan suasana belajar internal yang membuat peserta didik tertarik belajar. Pembelajaran juga dapat dipengaruhi oleh faktor eksternal, seperti dengan adanya wabah Covid-19. Realitas menunjukkan bahwa dinamika pembelajaran di Indonesia saat ini terganggu oleh wabah Covid-19 yang memberikan dampak diantaranya; 1) sekolah dialihkan ke rumah melalui proses pembelajaran daring; 2) terjadi transformasi media pembelajaran berbasis teknologi melalui penggunaan Wathshap Group, Zoom, Google Classroom, WebEx, Youtube, dan saluran TV (TVRI); 3) penyesuaian metode pembelajaran; 4) penyesuaian evaluasi pembelajaran untuk penentuan standar kenaikan kelas dan kelulusan; dan 5) tuntutan kolaborasi orangtua peserta didik di rumah sebagai pengganti guru mengontro pembelajaran anak.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86886756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adjective- noun order errors are a common occurrence throughout all levels of English language students. Based on professional experiences, existing literature and revisiting what some may consider archaic methodologies, this reflective article aims to analyse adjective-noun order errors among Colombian learners of English, understand why it presents such a challenge in the Colombian context and provide one possible teaching method to help reduce the number of adjective-noun order errors produced. To achieve such aims this article compares the rules for adjective-noun order in English and Spanish, describes the implications of the differences in adjective-noun order between the two languages for the Colombian learner and proposes translation as a teaching method to help Colombian learners of English reduce the frequency of these errors. Further investigation is needed to provide teachers with more insight into this problem; perhaps, focussing specifically on one of the two skills in which the error is produced, either writing or speaking.
{"title":"Adjective-Noun Order: An Error Analysis of Colombian Learners of English","authors":"Andrew Connolly","doi":"10.26817/16925777.708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.708","url":null,"abstract":"Adjective- noun order errors are a common occurrence throughout all levels of English language students. Based on professional experiences, existing literature and revisiting what some may consider archaic methodologies, this reflective article aims to analyse adjective-noun order errors among Colombian learners of English, understand why it presents such a challenge in the Colombian context and provide one possible teaching method to help reduce the number of adjective-noun order errors produced. To achieve such aims this article compares the rules for adjective-noun order in English and Spanish, describes the implications of the differences in adjective-noun order between the two languages for the Colombian learner and proposes translation as a teaching method to help Colombian learners of English reduce the frequency of these errors. Further investigation is needed to provide teachers with more insight into this problem; perhaps, focussing specifically on one of the two skills in which the error is produced, either writing or speaking.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82828112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This theoretical-review paper presents the construct of interactional identities as part of the study of classroom interaction in English language teaching education. The paper defines interactional identities from social studies and in the field of English language teaching. By listing studies on the matter, the relationship of this construct with classroom interaction is presented from global and local perspectives. Three reasons for studying interactional identities in the ELT field are discussed in the final part of the paper whose conclusions invite to incorporate this construct into de study of what teachers are and do for language learning and use in classroom interaction in English language teaching education.
{"title":"Bringing Interactional Identities into the Study of Classroom Interaction in ELT Education","authors":"Edgar Lucero-Babativa","doi":"10.26817/16925777.714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.714","url":null,"abstract":"This theoretical-review paper presents the construct of interactional identities as part of the study of classroom interaction in English language teaching education. The paper defines interactional identities from social studies and in the field of English language teaching. By listing studies on the matter, the relationship of this construct with classroom interaction is presented from global and local perspectives. Three reasons for studying interactional identities in the ELT field are discussed in the final part of the paper whose conclusions invite to incorporate this construct into de study of what teachers are and do for language learning and use in classroom interaction in English language teaching education.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91376567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The formation of human capital is key to countries’ social, cultural and economic development. The current literature pays considerable attention to the ever-increasing proliferation of technology in the careers of college and graduate school. While the presence of educational technology in higher education offers multiple benefits, its implementation also presents challenges. The literature has considered multiple tools for improving learning processes. The results of such tools vary and are difficult to measure in terms of quality. In this document, we analyze the issues surrounding educational technology in higher education.
{"title":"The Impact of Educational Technologies in Higher Education","authors":"Goretti Cabaleiro-Cerviño, C. Vera","doi":"10.26817/16925777.711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.711","url":null,"abstract":"The formation of human capital is key to countries’ social, cultural and economic development. The current literature pays considerable attention to the ever-increasing proliferation of technology in the careers of college and graduate school. While the presence of educational technology in higher education offers multiple benefits, its implementation also presents challenges. The literature has considered multiple tools for improving learning processes. The results of such tools vary and are difficult to measure in terms of quality. In this document, we analyze the issues surrounding educational technology in higher education.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73629902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aimed at investigating EFL pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards pronunciation and pronunciation teaching. Another purpose was to explore the outcomes of pronunciation instruction of EFL pre-service teachers’ phonological development and, based on the findings, to provide suggestions taking learners’ pedagogical needs into consideration. The study was conducted using a quantitative research design. 107 EFL pre-service teachers participated in the phase of questionnaire responding of the study, while 86 of whom participated in the interventional phase of the study. For fourteen weeks, one of the researchers provided EFL preservice teachers with pronunciation instruction focusing on segmental and suprasegmental features in English pronunciation. The results revealed that the participants had generally positive attitudes toward proper pronunciation in target language, which means that participants agreed upon the importance of pronunciation in target language and perceive pronunciation as a vital component of language learning and teaching. As to the interventional findings, it was found that the participants displayed significant improvement in articulation of vowels and consonants. In addition, the present study also found out that the participants’ post-test scores at the suprasegmental level (word-stress, intonation comprehensibility) were significantly higher than their pre-test scores.
{"title":"The Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Development of Phonological Processing and Evaluation of Their Attitudes toward Pronunciation","authors":"C. Aksakalli, Oktay Yagiz","doi":"10.26817/16925777.712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.712","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed at investigating EFL pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards pronunciation and pronunciation teaching. Another purpose was to explore the outcomes of pronunciation instruction of EFL pre-service teachers’ phonological development and, based on the findings, to provide suggestions taking learners’ pedagogical needs into consideration. The study was conducted using a quantitative research design. 107 EFL pre-service teachers participated in the phase of questionnaire responding of the study, while 86 of whom participated in the interventional phase of the study. For fourteen weeks, one of the researchers provided EFL preservice teachers with pronunciation instruction focusing on segmental and suprasegmental features in English pronunciation. The results revealed that the participants had generally positive attitudes toward proper pronunciation in target language, which means that participants agreed upon the importance of pronunciation in target language and perceive pronunciation as a vital component of language learning and teaching. As to the interventional findings, it was found that the participants displayed significant improvement in articulation of vowels and consonants. In addition, the present study also found out that the participants’ post-test scores at the suprasegmental level (word-stress, intonation comprehensibility) were significantly higher than their pre-test scores.","PeriodicalId":42765,"journal":{"name":"GIST-Education and Learning Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75080697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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