Meeting the Needs of Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties

Inclusion, Online Learning The reason for the study is to explore language teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and practices regarding the education of learners with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) in various educational settings worldwide. The study aims to understand the challenges teachers face, their self-perceived readiness to teach SpLD learners, and the impact of the shift from […]

Supporting Students’ Intrinsic Motivation for Online Learning Tasks

Motivation Online Learning This study aimed to explore how task instructions, framed with need-supportive statements, can support motivation and the mechanisms that could explain the potential effect of such motivation on task performance. Specifically, the authors examined whether need-supportive task instructions can enhance the situational intrinsic motivation of secondary school students on an online language […]

The perceptions of online peer tutoring

Investigation of tutor and tutee’s perception of challenges faced in virtual tutoring. Secondly, reasons for service refusal were investigated to inform future planning and training. The skills necessary to be an effective tutor Research shows that peer tutoring can be beneficial for all participants. Yet, it is essential that tutors possess the technological and pedagogical […]

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Educational Games

The effect of serious games on learning behaviors

The authors wanted to specifically examine what knowledge-construction behaviors are exhibited by elementary school students when using serious games and how these behaviors differ across academic performance levels.