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Wu Zhangli; Wang Xuewen; Lilliati Ismail; Norhakimah Khaiessa Ahmad; Omer HassanAli Mahfoodh – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined the challenges of English learning encountered by Chinese international students in a Malaysian university, as well as the contributing factors and strategies students employ to cope with these challenges. A total of 60 Chinese international students (51.7% male and 48.3% female) participated in this study, with an average stay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Study Abroad
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Lin, Chien-hung; Tsai, Ya-hsun; Tai, Kai-Hsin – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This study explores the relationship between the experience of confusion and the outcomes of Chinese character learning by learners of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL). Based on the claim that impasses triggering confusion can lead to deeper learning of conceptually difficult material, the study employed three impasse-driven tasks. The tasks…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction
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Chin, Kin Eng; Fu, Sai Hoe – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2021
This study presents a single case study of how a remedial mathematics teacher incorporated an instructional intervention into her teaching practices in order to teach counting to a pupil with mathematical learning difficulties. This new theory-driven intervention was developed by the authors of this study. Dyscalculia is a term which refers to a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Remedial Instruction
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Ng, Kien Heng; Bakri, Aryati; Rahman, Azizah Abdul – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
The effects of courseware learning for children with learning difficulties have been studied over the years. Educational courseware is very common nowadays as a teaching tool for children's early education. However, most of the coursewares are designed for children with normal learning ability. Special children who face difficulty in the learning…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Courseware, Children, Learning Problems
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Afsaneh Famildardashti; Madhyazhagan Ganesan; Dorothy DeWitt – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
Mathematics learning presents significant challenges for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study delves into the difficulties faced by ASD students in a private school in learning mathematics, according to the perspectives of teachers and parents. A qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with three…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Problems, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities
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Maarof, Nooreiny; Munusamy, Indira Malani A/P – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper aims to investigate the learners learning experiences and difficulties of ESL among the UKM undergraduates. This study will be focusing on identifying the factors behind Malaysian undergraduate's experiences and also their difficulties in the English as Second Language (ESL) classroom. This paper discusses some of the issues of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning
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Li, Voon Li; Julaihi, Nor Hazizah; Eng, Tang Howe – Asian Journal of University Education, 2017
The paper presents the results of a case study examining students' difficulties in the learning of integral calculus. It sought to address the misconceptions and errors that were encountered in the students' work solution. In quantitative study, the marks obtained by 147 students of Diploma in Computer Science in advanced calculus examinations…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies
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Sua, Tan Yao; Ngah, Kamarudin; Darit, Sezali Md. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This study surveys 200 Malay students enrolled in three Chinese primary schools in relation to three issues, i.e., parental choice of schooling, learning processes and inter-ethnic friendship patterns. The three issues are explored through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Parental expectations for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
Yong, Poon Cheng; Jiar, Yeo Kee; Zanzali, Noor Azlan Ahmad – Online Submission, 2012
Over-reliance on prescriptive pedagogies, such as explicit instruction, could hamper students with learning difficulties from sense-making and thus limit their acquisition of conceptual understanding. To help them in constructing mathematical knowledge, manipulative and drawing could be used to solve problems in a meaningful context. Using a case…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Wong, Mary Siew-Lian – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2010
This paper presents the findings of a study to explore pre-service teachers' beliefs about learning English and the stability of these beliefs over time. Participants were 25 pre-service teachers (11 males, 14 females) enrolled in a Bachelor of Education (TESL) programme. The Horwitz (1987) Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI), a…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Data Analysis
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Aliee, Zeinab Shams; Jomhari, Nazean; Rezaei, Reza; Alias, Norlidah – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
One of the most common problems in autistic children is split attention. Split attention prevents autism children from being able to focus attention on their learning, and tasks. As a result, it is important to identify how to make autistic individuals focus attention on learning. Considering autistic individuals have higher visual abilities in…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Autism, Visual Stimuli, Computer Uses in Education