A Scaffolding for Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

Janette Yuvienco

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4522–4527

This paper discusses a scaffolding material for teaching and learning vocabulary. Herein called Protomnema, this scaffolding material functions as a “ learning structure” that allows students to collect, process and manage new words not in a rote...

Topics: Learning Objects

Evaluating Peer Assessment within Project-based Learning in Second/Foreign Language Education

Janette Yuvienco

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 441–447

Peer assessment is part and parcel of the project-based learning approach in foreign language education. It is the final phase of the 10-step process of promoting purposeful language use (Stoller, 2007) which, in this evaluation study, occurs at the ...