Evidence-based practice has become a cornerstone to the development of many professions over the last twenty years, ranging from health and social sciences to education. Research based on reflective practice provides the impulse...En els últims vint anys, pràctiques basades en…

Abstract This article sets out the objectives, approaches and organisational development of a still on-going inter-university literature-teaching project entitled ‘Between the Lines: Comprehensive Reading of Literary Texts in a Foreign Language’, which was awarded a two-year grant by the Catalan…

Abstract The present article aims to meticulously focus on the integration of the assessment and instruction which leads to a new approach, Dynamic Assessment, based on the principles of Socio-cultural Theory of Mind (SCT) developed by L. S. Vygotsky and…

Abstract Professor Steve Walsh is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of ECLS of the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom. He is the module leader for ‘Teacher Development for TESOL’, ‘Learning and teaching in Higher Education’, ‘Discourse…

Oferim a lectores i lectors una àmplia gamma de temes en el darrer volum de l'any 2012. El primer article, escrit pels membres d'un grup de recerca al Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona…

AbstractTeachers are highly influenced by their beliefs, which are related to their ideas, to their views of the world and to their values and conceptions of their environment. Departing from the premise that teachers' beliefs are one of the most…

We describe the design, implementation and deployment of the multi-level agent-based system architecture developed for the SEWASIE project. The aim of the system is to help the user in querying heterogeneous data sources which are integrated by means of ontologies.…

As the research literature on the protists continues to grow, new data -- especially of an ultrastructural or molecular nature -- are accumulating that bear directly on the systematics (as well as evolution and phylogeny) of these biologically diverse forms…

A Federated System is a collection of independent, cooperative, possibly heterogeneous and autonomous computer systems (usually database systems) which allows sharing all or some of its data. A Service-oriented Architecture is an application architecture whose functionalities are defined as independent…

A Federated System is a collection of independent, cooperative, possibly heterogeneous and autonomous computer systems (usually database systems) which allows sharing all or some of its data. A Service-Oriented Architecture is an application architecture whose functionalities are defined as independent…