Journal of Advances in Education Research

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Authors: Zhang Jin’e

"Gender"1 (le genre) is a typical grammatical feature of French nouns. Compared with English, this is a prominent feature of French, and this feature also constitutes one of the difficulties in French learning. Accurately remember French nouns’ gender is the basis for the proper use of articles and adjectives. The study and mastery of French nouns’ gender often causes great trouble to Chinese French learners, especially to English majors who take French as a second foreign language. Even native French speakers do not understand the gender of all nouns, and the mastery of gender is acquired rather than inherent. This paper mainly summarizes some methods and techniques of French nouns’ gender acquisition and memory from the formation of nouns in order to help Chinese French learners better learn and master the French nouns.

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Authors: Joseph M. Furner

Math anxiety remains a critical issue affecting student performance and confidence across grade levels throughout the world. This shares data on math anxiety trends and discusses how students’ poor attitudes toward math can be the real disability for them in life. This paper provides much research and recommendations of best practices for teaching math and addressing such concerns in light of the reality of math anxiety existing in a world where we are preparing our young people for a STEM world. Research, best practices for teaching, strategies, and a survey are included.

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Authors: Joseph G. Claudet

This article presents an overview and critical appraisal of current turnaround leadership challenges confronting education leaders today in the design, development, and provision of quality education and social development opportunities for the world’s children and youth. Three specific turnaround leadership challenge areas in global education and social development are identified for review. Within each of these three challenge areas, some emerging best practices involving current regional and global collaboration initiatives that demonstrate considerable promise for advancing education and social development opportunities for the world’s children and youth are highlighted. The article includes a literature-informed discussion of important dimensions of each of the three identified global education and social development challenge areas along with an appraisal of some creative educational program design ideas for expanding young people’s access to high-quality education and career advancement opportunities. Finally, a number of practical education leadership action strategies are offered that educators – working in a variety of education organizations in diverse countries and regions of the world – can consider employing as intentional means to expand and deepen their ongoing educational mentoring and developmental support of children and youth in ways that help young people maximize their twenty-first-century job/career prospects and life-long learning opportunities.