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The effect of portfolio use on the development of critical thinking strategies of pre-service teachers with different learning approaches 档案袋使用对不同学习方法职前教师批判性思维策略发展的影响

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.079

Mine Kır

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Using combative and imitative active video games to increase the physical activity levels of university students on campus 使用好斗和模仿的主动视频游戏来增加大学生在校园里的体育活动水平

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.070

Cihan Aygün

{"title":"Using combative and imitative active video games to increase the physical activity levels of university students on campus","authors":"Cihan Aygün","doi":"10.30918/aerj.113.23.070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/aerj.113.23.070","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to investigate the effects of combative and imitative active video games (AVGs) on the physical activity levels of university students on campus. University students (n = 10; mean age: 20.30 ± 1.57 years), participated in this study. Measurements were taken from each participant at two separate time points on a university campus. During these visits, the physiological responses were recorded for two AVGs and resting conditions for measurement of physical activity level. The AVGs were randomly played for 15 minutes using an Xbox One device on the university campus. Physiological responses were measured continuously using the computerized, breath-by-breath analysis system, also the heart rate was recorded continuously. Data were analyzed using a one-way repeated measures ANOVA. The findings demonstrate that active video imitative and combative games significantly increased physiological responses, the energy expenditure from 0.019 ± 0.002 (rest) to 0.102 ± 0.019 and 0.131 ± 0.017 kcal.kg−1.min−1, respectively. The MET values of games (imitative: 5.937 ± 1.03; combative: 7.547 ± 0.94) were significantly higher than the rest (1.120 ± 0.11). The HR values significantly increased from 72.4 ± 9.96 beat.min-1 for rest to 132.2 ± 21.10 beat.min-1 for the imitative game, and 153.1 ± 19.76 beat.min-1 for the combative game. The highest physiological responses were determined for active video combative games which were significantly higher than active video imitative game responses (p < 0.01) and rest (p < 0.001). In conclusion, both combative and imitative AVGs, which can be integrated into campus and physical education classes, could serve as effective tools for increasing the physical activity levels of university students.","PeriodicalId":188493,"journal":{"name":"African Educational Research Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135827309","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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Grit and academic life satisfaction: Assessment of the mediating role of school engagement 毅力与学业生活满意度:学校投入的中介作用评估

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.066

Yüksel Eroğlu

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Exploring the relationship between cognitive flexibility and mindfulness with self-regulation in university students 探讨大学生认知灵活性、正念与自我调节的关系

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.073

İsmail Ay

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Turkish-speaking students' writing performance in German as a foreign language (GFL) and their metacognitive awareness: An online collaborative writing instruction combined with metacognitive guidance 土耳其语学生对外德语写作表现及其元认知意识:一种结合元认知指导的在线协作写作教学

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.071

Ahmet Tanir

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Evaluation of written expression of A1 level Kyrgyz students learning Turkey's Turkish during the pandemic period 疫情期间吉尔吉斯A1级学生学习土耳其语的书面表达评价

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.069

Sibel Barcın

{"title":"Evaluation of written expression of A1 level Kyrgyz students learning Turkey's Turkish during the pandemic period","authors":"Sibel Barcın","doi":"10.30918/aerj.113.23.069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/aerj.113.23.069","url":null,"abstract":"The fundamental skills in language teaching are reading, listening, speaking and writing. It is important to establish links with other language skill areas in the development of writing skills. In this study, it was aimed to analyze the writing skills of Kyrgyz students studying distance learning at A1 level during the pandemic. 28 Kyrgyz students participated in the study. In this context, it was desired to determine the most common mistakes in written expression in order to evaluate the students' habits of using Turkey's Turkish language structures at A1 level. The data in the study were generated by having the students write a self-introductory article. In this framework, descriptive analysis was used in this study designed with qualitative research model. The data were collected through the writings uploaded on the web interface of Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University. The instructor took the data from the E-Course Distance Education Portal tool and analyzed them in order. Based on the writing assignments in the study, errors originating from the students were evaluated and interpreted. These errors were categorized as phonetics, morphology and spelling. As a result of the research, it was determined that students made negative transfers with the influence of their mother tongue. However, it was supported that the instructor should keep the motivation of the student high with the role of a guide in the language teaching process and the materials that attract the student's interest in the distance education process should be more involved in the learning-teaching environment. In this context, it is assumed that the results of the study will contribute to teaching Turkey's Turkish to Kyrgyz.","PeriodicalId":188493,"journal":{"name":"African Educational Research Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126696135","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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Syntactic structures of Turkish research article titles in medicine and engineering 医学和工程领域土耳其语研究文章标题的句法结构

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.068

Dursun Demir

{"title":"Syntactic structures of Turkish research article titles in medicine and engineering","authors":"Dursun Demir","doi":"10.30918/aerj.113.23.068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/aerj.113.23.068","url":null,"abstract":"The title is of vital importance to research articles as it summarizes the content in several words and grabs the attention of readers. When selecting articles pertinent to their research, the prevalence of online publication leads readers to use online search engines like Google Scholar, which generally displays the first few words of a title, making the title highly important. This study aimed to investigate some key features, such as length, style, syntactic structure and punctuation marks of titles in Turkish research articles in medicine and engineering. To this end, we selected 1,200 titles in four leading journals publishing research articles in these disciplines. As a tool to collect data, document analysis was used in the study to analyze such features of titles and in analyzing the data, descriptive analysis technique was used. The study revealed that both medicine and engineering have almost the equivalent title length. Titles in both disciplines are dominated by single-unit ones and both single-unit and compound titles are predominated by nominal group construction. The results also suggested some disciplinary differences: Compound titles were more common in medicine than in engineering. Medical titles appear to have used more varied syntactic structures in forming titles. Moreover, medical titles have shown a high degree of complexity in terms of punctuation usage. The differences might be attributed to disciplinary practices set out in these two fields. The results of the present study will provide novice writers with ample opportunity to construct their titles as best they can while maintaining their effort to build and enhance their academic writing skills.","PeriodicalId":188493,"journal":{"name":"African Educational Research Journal","volume":"364 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122448281","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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Comparative analysis of cultural elements in textbooks “Schritte” and “Yeni Hitit” 《施里特》与《叶尼·希特》教科书中文化元素的比较分析

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.075

Behiye Arabacioğlu

{"title":"Comparative analysis of cultural elements in textbooks “Schritte” and “Yeni Hitit”","authors":"Behiye Arabacioğlu","doi":"10.30918/aerj.113.23.075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/aerj.113.23.075","url":null,"abstract":"Textbooks play an undeniable role in education and training. The selection of textbooks, which are crucial materials for both teachers and learners in the teaching-learning process, requires careful consideration of specific criteria. Textbooks wield an effect on intrinsic motivation factors like interest, desire, and curiosity. They also impact academic achievement directly. Considering that a contemporary foreign language textbook should include important elements of other cultures and provide valuable cultural information, it's vital to consider cultural elements while selecting these textbooks. Hence, this study selected two textbooks that follow the communicative parametric method, devised primarily for foreign language education for adults, particularly in integration courses. This study analyzed and compared the textbook “Schritte” for foreigners who want to learn German and the textbook “Yeni Hitit” for foreigners who want to learn Turkish in terms of cultural elements. The study focuses on investigating and elaborating on cultural elements in these textbooks. To achieve these objectives, qualitative research was used in compliance with the criteria of validity and reliability of the research. The research showed that both textbooks adequately included cultural elements and provided the target language-target culture context. Both textbooks were found to present features specific to the countries in which they were written. Furthermore, these textbooks highlight the distinctions that exist in terms of characteristics among different groups of people and cultures. It has been concluded that these books are shaped to provide tolerance and empathy towards other cultures, emphasizing the differences in the characteristics of other cultures, and providing the opportunity to learn the culture of the learned language as well as learning a foreign language.","PeriodicalId":188493,"journal":{"name":"African Educational Research Journal","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122830599","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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Analysis of the relationship between science and environmental attitudes with certain value tendencies of secondary school students 中学生科学与具有一定价值倾向的环境态度的关系分析

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.067

Filiz Kara

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Analyzing the effect of 8-week swimming training applied to secondary school students on motor skills and 50-meter swimming ratings 分析8周游泳训练对中学生运动技能和50米游泳成绩的影响

African Educational Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.30918/aerj.113.23.065

Zehra Gözel

{"title":"Analyzing the effect of 8-week swimming training applied to secondary school students on motor skills and 50-meter swimming ratings","authors":"Zehra Gözel","doi":"10.30918/aerj.113.23.065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/aerj.113.23.065","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to analyze the effect of the 8-week swimming training applied to secondary school students on their motor skills and 50-meter freestyle swimming ratings. 24 students having swimming license in the age range of 11 to 14 participated in the study voluntarily. Munich fitness test (MFT) protocol was used to determine the motor skill levels of the athletes, and 50-meter freestyle swimming ratings were used to determine the swimming performances. According to the test of normality results, it was determined that the data collected had a normal distribution. Paired samples t-test was used to determine the difference between the MFT pre-test and post-test. According to the statistical analysis results, a significant difference in favor of the post-test was determined in Goal Throwing, Flexibility, Flexed Arm Hanging, Step Test, MFT total score and 50-meter swimming ratings of the participants. It is believed that the swimming training applied to the students improved their swimming performances and motor skill levels. It may be recommended that swimming exercises, as well as other factors, should be used in the cases where it is desired to improve children’s motor skills.","PeriodicalId":188493,"journal":{"name":"African Educational Research Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126884744","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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