Moray House Masters thesis collection
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‘If it weren’t for YouTube, I wouldn’t be here’ Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Online Learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In this study, I explored the voices of Indigenous students and teachers, who, despite the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), continue to be underrepresented in online learning at post-secondary ... -
Phenomenological study of the relationship between a 10-day residential outdoor education experience and patterns of physical activity in adult life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005-11-30)This dissertation investigates the meanings and values that a group of adults aged between 30 and 31 years attribute to a 10-day residential outdoor education experience that took place 17 years ago. The dissertation ... -
Evaluation of global Englishes oriented features in a Chinese senior high school textbook
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017)English now is a global language used by speakers from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and non-native speakers outnumber native speakers. As a result, it has been argued that English language teaching should ... -
Some aspects of rural adult education with special reference to East Lothian
(The University of Edinburgh, 1974)The period covered by this paper, from the early eighteenth to the opening of the twentieth century, was one of remarkable progress and development for Scotland's agriculture generally. From a deplorably backward ... -
Report on George Watson's Boys' College forestry camp at Clarilawmoor, Roxburghshire. July - September, 1940.
(The University of Edinburgh, 1940)The general scheme of the undertaking might be subdivided for convenience of treatment into:- • Preliminary Organisation, • Organisation of Camp Arrangements, • Organisation of the Actual Work in the Forest, • And ... -
Teacher Appraisal
(The University of Edinburgh, 1995)A study of teacher appraisal and its adoption from what is seen by many in education as a quite alien occupational culture - the world of commerce and industry, where appraisal systems have existed for many years. The ... -
Attitudes towards Digital Game-based Learning of Chinese Primary School English Teachers
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-29)As a result of technological advancement, the educational landscape in the field of language education has been experiencing a significant evolution. Educational gaming, as a newly emerged paradigm of online learning, has ... -
Continuity of education and the transfer of pupils from primary to secondary education in the Edinburgh city division of Lothian Region Education Authority
(The University of Edinburgh, 1979)This dissertation examines how the continuity between the primary and secondary stages in education, advocated by a succession of government reports, is achieved between six Edinburgh secondary schools and their feeder ... -
Language proficiency testing: a comparative analysis of IELTS and TOEFL
(The University of Edinburgh, 2000)There is a general belief that British and North American EFL proficiency tests represent radically different approaches to language test development. The North American tradition in language testing is heavily based on ... -
Child second language acquisition of tense aspect morphology: a bi-directional study of English and Italian
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Higher education development in Oman 1970-2002: challenges and achievements
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003)Higher education in Oman, as in other countries of the world, constitutes the basis of human resources development required to accelerate the expansion and improvement of conditions by training the citizens of the Sultanate ... -
Effect of fatigue on three-dimensional kinematic characteristics of elite and sub-elite swimmers during maximal intermittent exercise.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Exercise-induced fatigue constitutes an important limiting factor for sports performance. In swimming biomechanics, studies have examined the effect of fatigue-induced changes in kinematic variables associated with swim ... -
Young children’s perceptions of environmental sustainability: a Maltese perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-07-01)This thesis is located in the emerging field of early childhood education for sustainability and has particular focus on Malta. It sought to gather insights into young children’s perceptions of environmental sustainability, ... -
Life-histories of male "non-traditional" students in two of Scotland's ancient universities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2008-06-30)This exploratory study examined the life-histories of 21 men who were mature (27years+ ), full-time students in two Scottish ancient universities. Most were first-generation entrants. Individual semi-structured interviews ... -
Teaching standard grade French through integrated communicative projects (I.C.P's)
(The University of Edinburgh, 1992-05)Education aims to promote learning, ie the ability to think for oneself, to develop the various skills of the individual and to make the individual independent and capable of making judgements. In order to facilitate ... -
A workshop package on teaching reading in primary one and two in Sierra Leone
(The University of Edinburgh, 1989)Chapter one of this project tells you about the background of Sierra Leone and the problem I am going to deal with which is helping untrained teachers to cope with very difficult problems of teaching pre-reading and early ... -
Some suggestions for adapting group and pair work techniques in teaching English as a second language in Tanzania
(The University of Edinburgh, 1989)English is regarded as a second language in Tanzania for it is the major language of law, government, education, business and industry. It is important that it is a compulsory subject in the curriculum - from primary to ... -
To examine approaches to learning to read in the second language in Zambia
(The University of Edinburgh, 1989)This project seeks to examine approaches to learning to read in a second language in Zambia where there is a rich variety of mother tongues, but English is chosen for instruction as one language which all pupils will have ... -
Proposals for teaching reading skills in standard 8 in Namibia
(The University of Edinburgh, 1990)Reading is central to all learning and should enjoy more attention than any skill associated with learning. Undoubtedly, reading difficulty has an adverse effect on learning and on acquiring of information in general. This ...
