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Özkan, Nese Kara – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
Listening motivation is defined as the desire that an individual feels before or during listening in order to understand. An individual's reluctance towards listening activity indicates her/his lack of motivation. The lack of motivation to listen prevents the effective realization of listening, which has a great share in learning and…
Descriptors: Listening, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Predictor Variables
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Özbek, Müge; Bohn, Annette; Berntsen, Dorthe – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
We have limited knowledge as to whether the phenomenological differences between episodic memories, counterfactuals, and future projections show the same pattern across age groups and diverse samples. Here we compared the characteristics of these mental events, reported by younger and older participants in a Turkish (Study 1) and in an American…
Descriptors: Memory, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Emotional Response
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Kartal, Alpaslan – World Journal of Education, 2020
Cooperative learning is a kind of teaching method, which includes students working together in projects. The teacher has to provide a cooperative situation that creates interdependence among the students. It consists of five different elements. These are positive interdependence, individual accountability, face to face interaction, interpersonal-…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Cooperative Learning, Intellectual Disciplines
Kesicioglu, Oguz Serdar; Yildirim Haciibrahimoglu, Binnur; Aktas, Banu – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this study is to reveal the perceptions of today's children surrounding play. A phenomenological method was used in the research, designed qualitatively for the purpose of revealing pre-school-aged children's perceptions of play in their pictures. A total of 97 children being educated in two different preschools in the fall term of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Childrens Attitudes, Play, Preferences
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Çetin, Yakup; Bahar, Mustafa; Griffiths, Carol – Journal of International Students, 2017
The number of international students in Turkey has steadily increased in recent years. As they come from different geographical locations, their successful adaptation to a medium sized country in-between three continents is of great interest. This study was conducted to investigate international students' perceptions of their Turkish experience.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Culture
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Tosun, Bahadir – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
The present study is a quantitative research that attempts to scrutinize the place of students' views on integrating contextual micro-grammar revision with contextual vocabulary teaching consistent with Constructivism. Therefore, the study investigates the first and the second-year students' attitudes towards a new technique that attempts to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Akca, Figen; Ulutas, Emrah; Yabanci, Cemile – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between Teachers' Self-efficacy beliefs, locus of control and intercultural sensitivities and to analyze these variables based on various demographic variables. The data of the study were collected through teachers' locus of control scale developed by Sadowski, Taylor, Woodward, Peacher,…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Individual Differences
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Koç, Hatice Kübra – Online Submission, 2017
As a still popular research area, Language Learning Strategies (LLS) researches need to be enhanced, since it consists of different phenomenon such as age, gender, individual differences and learning environment. At a glance, previous studies in the literature state that most of LLS researches are conducted in just learner-contexts in schools or…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Age Differences, English (Second Language)
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Tosun, Bahadir Cahit – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
The current study is a quantitative research that aims to throw light on the place of students' views on contextual vocabulary teaching in conformity with Constructivism (CVTC) in the field of foreign language teaching. Hence, the study investigates whether any significant correlation exists between the fourth year university students' attitudes…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Statistical Analysis
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Randler, Christoph; Horzum, Mehmet Baris; Vollmer, Christian – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
There are many studies related to distance learning. Willingness and anxiety are important variables for distance learning. Recent research has shown that anxiety and willingness towards distance learning are moderated by personality. This study sought to investigate whether distance learning willingness and distance learning anxiety are…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Distance Education, Scores, Questionnaires
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Alat, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of the study was to examine differences in children's generalised trust and the maternal behaviour, child temperament, and demographic factors on the levels of trust in children. A total of 314 mothers and their children participated in the study. Results showed no evidence of sex differences in children's beliefs. Children living in urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Trust (Psychology), Individual Differences
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Yesil Dagli, Ummuhan – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
In recent years, schools have tended to eliminate recess period and to devote more time to instruction in order to increase academic achievement. Using a nationally representative sample, this study examined reading scores of students who experienced different numbers of recess days in a week, and different number of times and length of recess in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Public Schools
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Genc, Salih Zeki – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2008
The study aims to determine critical thinking tendencies among teacher candidates. 720 students from primary school teaching department (Primary School Teaching Programme, Science Teaching Programme and Pre-School Teaching Programme) form the sample of the study. When the gender and age distributions were investigated, 253 candidates are males and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Preservice Teachers, Gender Differences, Age Differences