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The fifth issue of Volume 16 of The International Journal of Learning has now been published.

Volume 16, Number 5 contains:

• Students’ Perceptions on Communicating Mathematically: A Case Study of a Secondary Mathematics Classroom by Jingzi Huang and Bruce Normandia.
• Third and Foreign Language Teaching: Issues and Solutions by Madiha Zeest Waheed.
• Refugee-Centred Education: Making Community Engagement Central Rather than Peripheral to Pre-service Teacher Professional Development by Loshini Naidoo.
• Factors and Processes Facilitating the Development of Students’ Professional Competency: A Case Study from Silpakorn University, Thailand by Nongnuch Rotjanalert.
• A Multiliteracy Intervention in a Contemporary “Mono-Literacy” School in Greece by Eleni Katsarou.
• The Practice of Distributed Leadership: A Bridge from Social Deprivation to Academic Achievement? by Rosemary McGuinness.
• Reflective Practice and a Process Called “Levelising” by John Peters and Betty Ragland.
• Leadership in Assessment and Evaluation: Perspectives from the Field by Louis Volante.
• Educating Journalists for the 21st Century: Constructing a Student Multimedia Environment by Susan Lewis.

• Teachers’ Evaluations of Students’ Self-awareness of Learning at the Department of Applied English in the Universities of Technology by Frances Feng-Mei Choi.
• The Changing Faces of Outcome-Based Learning: Teaching and Learning Creativity 10.20.30 by Grace K. Lau.
• Relationship between Arabic Listening Skills and Motivation by Nik Mohd Rahimi, Nurulasyikin Muda, Zamri Mahamod and Kamarul Shukri Mat Teh.
• Advancing the Patchwork Text: The Development of Patchwork Media Approaches by Lydia Arnold, Tim Williams and Kevin Thompson.
• Teamwork in Higher Education: Teamwork as Chance of Success by Ildiko Marosi and Andrea Bencsik.
• Development of an Attitude Scale to Measure Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitude towards the Teaching Profession by Muhammad Azeem, Nasir Mahmood, Khalil-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Tanveer Afzal, Noor Muhammad and Muhammad Idrees.
• Greek Pre-Service Teachers’ Cognitive Abilities in Understanding the Concept of Frequency: A Multilevel Statistical Analysis by Sofia D. Anastasiadou and Dimos ?. Loukas.
• Directionality in Down Syndrome Children: Is there a Difference? by Klio Semoglou, Anastasia Alevriadou and Oikonomidou.
• The Teenage Expertise Network: The Online Availability of Expertise by Nicola Frances Johnson.
• The Adolescent Students views of Factors Influencing their Learning by Angela Mornane.
• An Examination of Pre-Service Teacher Preparedness: A Cooperating Teacher Perspective by Adel Al-Bataineh.
• Teachers’ Beliefs and View of the Curriculum by Heidi Stevenson.
• Engaging New Faculty in the Scholarship of Teaching by Clive Hickson and Margaret Wilson.
• Calibration of Parallel Forms of an Achievement Test in Educational Assessment at B. Ed Level by Ulfat Kazmi, Azhar Mumtaz Saadi, Muhammad Ibrahim Khalid, Qamar Batool, Abdul Ghafoor Nasir and Muhammad Akram Shah.
• Evaluating the Impact of Positive Peer Interaction for Increased Literacy by Michelle Ann Bakerson and Nakia James.
• Raising Comprehension Scores through Creative Drama: Action Research in a Professional Development Partnership by Sherry DuPont.
• Community Learning Environments: Kids and Parents Co-construct Meaning Through Book Talks by Sally Smith and Janine Bixler.
• Making Lectures Downloadable as Digital Files: Is it Really Helping My Students? by Maria Sagrario Simbulan.
• Strategies and Secrets for Effective Tertiary Study: Reading, Understanding, and Learning in the Academic Setting by Ali Wegner and Brendan Bartlett.
• Assessing Impact of Instruction on Spatial Ability among Malaysian Engineering Students by Mohamad Raduan Kabit, Norehan Zulkiply, Aidil Azli Alias, Wan Hashim Wan Ibrahim, Resdiansyah Mansyur and Ron Aldrino Chan.
• The Participation Factors of Postgraduate Students in Education by Faizah A Majid.
• Confucian or Fusion? Perceptions of Confucian-Heritage Students with Respect to their University Studies in Australia by Frank Gutierrez and Laurel Evelyn Dyson.
• Engaging Spaces: An Investigation into Middle School Educational Opportunities Provided by Innovative Built Environments. A New Approach to Understanding the Relationship between Learning and Space by Ben Cleveland.
• Beyond Information, Through Participation, to New Learning for Personal and Cognitive Growth in Higher Education: Focusing on the Process by Larry Riggs and Sandra Hellyer-Riggs.
• Perceptions of Grade Twelve Disadvantaged High Risk Learners towards the Use of VBSRL Instructional Strategies by Prakash Singh and Sindiswa Madgie Mbokodi.
• Learning Cultural Identity through Sculpture by Abdul Halim Husain.
• Guessing-Words-In-Context Strategies Used by Beginning and Upper-Intermediate Level EFL Students by G. Muge Kanatlar and Bena Gül Peker.
• The Writing Strategy in French Language Learning among Malaysian Students: A Qualitative Approach by Hazlina Abdul Halim, Normaliza Abd Rahim, Mohd Azidan Abdul Jabar and Adi Yasran Abdul Aziz.
• Re-Thinking Learning Experience in the Flow of Time through Autoethnography by Paola Cinquina.
• Is it Me? Virtual Team Leader Self-Attribution & Responsibility Bias by Velvet Weems-Landingham.
• Creating Non-Traditional Multicultural Learning Environments Through Cultural Exchange by Darren Clarke and Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke.
• Gender Inequality and HIV Risk in South Africa: Education and Socio-economic Empowerment of Women as Protective Factors Against HIV Infection by Ngqabutho M. Ncube.
• Teacher Efficacy Beliefs Among Novice Malaysian Teachers by Ab. Rahim Bakar and Shamsiah Mohamed.
• The Role of Feedback from Assessors in Student-Centred Learning by Robyn Thomas.
• Let Me Say It My Way: Using Culturally Relevant Research Strategies to Explore Young Adults’ Experiences of Social and Economic Health by M. Tanya Brann-Barrett.
• Analyzing Effectiveness of School Education Management Focus on Invested Resources to Private Universities’ Students with Six Sigma by Chin-Wen Liao, Farn-Shing Chen and Tsai-Hsiu Chen.
• Non-routine Problem-solving and Attitudes toward Problem-solving among High Achievers by Faridah Salleh and Effandi Zakaria.
• Exploring Students’ Perceptions about Landscapes by Stefanos Paraskevopoulos and Iakovos Papadopoulos.
• Entrepreneurial Strategy: A Prospect for Historically Disadvantaged Schools in South Africa by Malefane Johannes Lebusa.
• Formation of the Competence for Personal Autonomy: An Autobiographical Study with Sevillian Teenagers by Antonio Bernal Guerrero and Antonio Ramón Cárdenas Gutiérrez.
• Online Professional Communities: Understanding the Effects of Membership on Teacher Practice by Jennifer Duncan-Howell.