What Benefits can be Derived from Teaching Knowledge about Language to Preservice Teachers?

This paper evaluates the validity of teaching English grammar to preservice teachers in a teacher education course at a regional university. The course was delivered in blended mode using the grammar component of My Writing Lab Global (MWLG) and face-to-face instruction. The aim of this study was to establish if there are benefits to derive from teaching knowledge about language (KAL) to preservice teachers. Our quasi-experimental study found MWLG was well-received by participants who believed it had improved their KAL; this improvement was confirmed by 10% improvement on a pre and post KAL test (p \u3c .001). MWLG scores and the KAL test also reliably predicted other academic competencies: the students’ accumulated GPA and their final written assessment scores for the course (r= .4 to .54; p \u3c 0.01). Collectively, these findings suggest that explicit KAL is valued and valid knowledge and should be included in teacher education programs

Fourth-order compact schemes for solving multidimensional heat problems with Neumann boundary conditions

In this article, two sets of fourth-order compact finite difference schemes are constructed for solving heat-conducting problems of two or three dimensions, respectively. Both problems are with Neumann boundary conditions. These works are extensions of our earlier work (Zhao et al., Fourth order compact schemes of a heat conduction problem with Neumann boundary conditions, Numerical Methods Partial Differential Equations, to appear) for the one-dimensional case. The local one-dimensional method is employed to construct these two sets of schemes, which are proved to be globally solvable, unconditionally stable, and convergent. Numerical examples are also provided. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57369/1/20255_ftp.pd

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