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Feder, Liat; Abu-Rabia, Salim – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The study tested whether cognitive retroactive transfer (CRT) of language skills from English to Hebrew takes place; specifically, whether an improvement in linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in English as a foreign language (FL) would lead to an improvement in these skills in Hebrew as the first language (L1). The participants consisted of 124…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Transfer of Training, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1991
The four issues of this journal published in 1991 contain the following articles: "Suggestology in the USSR"; "Integrated Short-term Intensive Course Structure; "Teaching Teachers to Teach"; "Sociopsychological Aspects of Intensive Teaching"; "The Method of Intensive Learning in the Context of Modern…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Cohen, Andrew D. – English for Specific Purposes, 1986
Reviews research regarding reading strategies used by Hebrew-speaking students to comprehend English for specific purposes texts, focusing on verbal report techniques in: developing a taxonomy for reading strategies; checking the appropriateness of mentalistic measures for different populations; determining similarities between first-language and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
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Cohen, Andrew D. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Explores what it means to think in a target language, discusses those factors determining planned and unplanned use of more than one language for thinking, considers the role of target-language thinking in improving language ability, and examines mental translation in the reading of intermediate college French. The article concludes that benefits…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, College Students, English
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers