July 2017

Complementing lecturing as teaching pedagogy and students’ learning styles in universities in Tanzania: State of issues

Lecturing remains a popular and predominant teaching pedagogy in Higher Education Institutions and Tanzanian universities are no exception. However, due to increase in enrollments, lecturing encounters serious challenges as burgeoning diverse nature of students’ learning needs associated with physiological, psychological, professional and biographic factors. This study employed cross-sectional survey to...

Author(s): Yazidu Saidi Mbalamula

July 2017

Determining the variables that affect the reading motivation of educational faculty students

Reading motivation has a significant contribution to acquire the necessary reading skills, and it has an indisputable effect on continuing to read. When the importance of the role model effect of school teachers in acquiring reading skills is considered, it is expected that reading motivation of the students will be high whose teachers also have a high reading motivation. Considering these issues, this study aimed to...

Author(s): Vafa SavaÅŸkan and Atilla Özdemir