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I Gde Wawan Sudatha; Luh Sri Surya Wisma Jayanti; Gede Wira Bayu; I Wayan Widiana; Siti Hajar Binti Halili – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
Elementary school students still need help learning English, resulting in low learning outcomes. The lack of learning facilities and the application of inappropriate learning models impact students' low motivation to learn English. Regarding this matter, this study aims to examine the effectiveness of task-based e-learning on students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cognitive Processes, Learner Engagement, Reading
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Buehler, Florian J.; van Loon, Mariëtte H.; Bayard, Natalie S.; Steiner, Martina; Roebers, Claudia M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2021
Metacognitive monitoring is a significant predictor of academic achievement and is assumed to be related to language competencies. Hence, it may explain academic performance differences between native and non-native speaking students. We compared metacognitive monitoring (in terms of resolution) between native and non-native speaking fourth…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Native Speakers, Grade 4
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Zheng, Mo; Ho, Connie Suk-Han; McBride, Catherine – Developmental Psychology, 2023
We examined the developmental trajectories and cognitive predictors of first language Chinese reading, second language English reading, and mathematics skills in Hong Kong children in Grades 1-5. We used longitudinal data of 1,000 children (M[subscript age] = 7.59 years) assessed on phonological awareness, rapid naming, and morphological awareness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Chinese, Reading
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de Larios, Julio Roca; Coyle, Yvette; García, Vanessa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The present study analyzed how a group of young Spanish-speaking English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) science class responded to an instructional unit integrating attention to functional language and an inquiry-oriented approach to science. Working in cooperation with the researchers, a…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Tai, Kai-Hsin; Lin, Pei-Hsin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
Calibration between judged and actual performance related to cognitive certitude is known as "cognitive certitude of calibration" (CCC). CCC is an essential factor that can affect an individual's calibration behavior related to his/her learning effectiveness mediated by cognitive and affective factors, such as cognitive anxiety, learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Behavior, Affective Behavior, Anxiety
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Marton, Ference; Pang, Ming Fai – Frontline Learning Research, 2013
In helping learners to make a novel meaning their own, such as when helping children to understand what a word means or teaching students a new concept in school, we frequently point to examples that share the aimed-at meaning but differ otherwise. This type of approach rests on the assumption that novel meanings can be acquired through the…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Computer Games, Differences, Phenomenology
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Mahapatra, Shamita; Das, J. P.; Stack-Cutler, Holly; Parrila, Rauno – Reading Psychology, 2010
The efficacy of a cognitive-based remediation program was investigated with 14 English-as-a-second-language (ESL) poor readers in Grade 4 who had significant difficulty in comprehension and 14 normal ESL readers in Grade 4 who received no remediation. Both groups were selected from 2 English-medium schools in India. We examined pretest-to-posttest…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Montelongo, Jose A.; Hernandez, Anita C.; Herter, Roberta J.; Cuello, Jaime – Reading Teacher, 2011
Latino English learners (ELs) come to elementary classrooms with many English-Spanish cognates in their listening, speaking, reading, and writing vocabularies. Cognates are words that are orthographically, semantically, and syntactically similar in two languages because of a shared etymology. Some cognates are identical in both English and…
Descriptors: Cues, Etymology, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Butler, Yuko Goto; Hakuta, Kenji – Reading Psychology, 2009
This study investigates the relationship between oral proficiency and reading proficiency in English-learning children (L2 students) and native English-speaking children (NE students). A set of oral activities measuring students' academic oral skills in science classes was developed and administered to 61 fourth graders. Both the meaning-related…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness