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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding EFL Teachers’ Beliefs about Lesson Study and Their Knowledge Development Viewed from Social Cultural Theory of Vygotsky

open access: yesEnglish Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
Lesson study has been implemented in Indonesian classrooms since more than a decade ago, and it is seen as a means to improve teacher knowledge. This study aims to investigate secondary English teachers’ opinions about lesson study in relation to ...
Eko Purwanti, Endro Dwi Hatmanto
doaj   +1 more source

Sociocultural theory and the teaching of process writing: The scaffolding of learning in a university context

open access: yes, 2005
This paper considers how independent and interdependent learning can be fostered through a process approach to the teaching of writing. It does so by presenting the theoretical rational which underlies a university academic skills programme.
Barnard, Roger, Campbell, Lucy
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James Lantolf’s 50-Year Research Contribution to SLA through Sociocultural Theory: A Systematic Review [PDF]

open access: yes
Ali Panahi and Hassan Mohebbi review James P. Lantolf’s 50-years of research in Sociocultural Theory and language-related issues. They read through his whole research works spanning a period of almost 50 years.
James P. Lantolf,Ali Panahi,Hassan Mohebbi
core   +1 more source

Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decision Making as a Component of Information Technologies in the Sociocultural Sphere

open access: yesЦифрова платформа: інформаційні технології в соціокультурній сфері, 2018
One of the most important components of any information technology is decision-making. Whenever during the application of information technology it is necessary to choose one of the possible alternatives, taking into account certain conditions, methods ...
Igor Grebennik, Olena Chaikovska
doaj   +1 more source

Examining change in motivation: The potential of sociocultural theory

open access: yes, 2011
In chapter 8, Judith MacCallum and Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn discuss the potential of sociocultural theory for examining change in motivation. While they acknowledge that the nature of motivation has been examined from many different perspectives, they ...
Mccallum, J   +3 more
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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Teachers' Scaffolding and Peers' Collaborative Dialogue on Speech Act Production in Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Groups [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
Recently, the field of instructed pragmatics has seen a shift of paradigm from the prevailing cognitive approaches to socially-oriented ones, revolving around the notions like collaborative dialogue and sociocultural theory.
Zahra Fakher Ajabshir   +1 more
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