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Download full textBanks, Tiffini – Online Submission, 2008
Beginning foreign language (FL) courses in high school often have high numbers of learning disabled (LED) and at-risk students, perhaps because many students who are considered to be college bound begin foreign language study in middle school. This paper examines FL difficulties as well as effective strategies that others have used to conquer…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Phonology, Second Languages, High Risk Students
Fish, Lisa – 1984
A study of the relationships of pitch discrimination, sound discrimination, pronunciation of German phonemes, and cognitive style as factors in language learning ability had as subjects two intact eighth grade German classes with a total of 45 students. Four instruments were used to measure the four variables studied. The findings for 11 research…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
He, Hongwei – 1996
A study examined the historical, cultural, social, pedagogical, and psychological factors affecting Chinese students' language learning styles and attitudes, particularly concerning learning English as a Second Language (ESL). The first section offers an overview of considerations in understanding the cultural background that students bring to the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Style, Educational Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Bassano, Sharron Kay – 1983
It is generally recognized that students' feelings about learning affect their ability to learn. One of the three strongest influencing factors on second-language learning is classroom anxiety. This paper focuses on student emotional distress in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom, and suggests that one of the primary causes of this…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Affective Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
de Lorenzo, Kathryn Brue – 1980
This study investigates whether Mexican Americans have a different cerebral specialization for native language than for second language as measured by visual shift. The possibility of a different cerebral arrangement for each language has implications for educators. The relation between cerebral arrangement and cognitive style entails…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cerebral Dominance
Bean, Ruth Ellen – 1990
Recent research indicated that a field dependent cognitive style, often culture-based, can cause problems for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). English language ability and learning styles, and field dependence (FD), and field independence, were tested in 157 adult Korean and Japanese ESL learners in university and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
