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Christian G. K. Hahn; Henrik Saalbach; Clemens Brunner; Roland H. Grabner – Frontline Learning Research, 2025
Within the research on bilingual learning, first studies have revealed that content learned in one language is retrieved more slowly when participants have to switch language from instruction to testing (i.e., language-switching costs, LSC). These costs are attributed to language-dependent knowledge representations. However, the cognitive…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Learning, Arithmetic, Mathematics Education
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Kosar, Gülten; Bedir, Hasan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
This case study examines whether or not an intervention in brain-based learning (BBL) brings about any change in language learning beliefs (LLBs) of adult EFL learners. Students enrolled in an English preparatory program were taught in accord with BBL principles over 16 weeks. Beliefs about language learning inventory (BALLI) was administered at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Prescott, Lynda – Studies in Continuing Education, 2012
The study described here is based on the work of creative writing students engaged in life writing for a piece of assessment in a distance-learning course. Using the finished assignment pieces themselves, the students' reflective commentaries on their completed task, and a follow-up questionnaire, the analysis was designed to explore the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Writing Instruction, Creative Writing, Adult Education
Flammer, August – 1977
The general hypotheses derived from a series of six experiments in instructional theory were as follows: that the individually optimal reading sequence of juxtaposed, but mutally related, prose text depends on learning goal and pre-knowledge; that adult learners are able to approach this reading sequence through their own decisions; and that…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making Skills, Educational Theories
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Goodfellow, Robin; Laurillard, Diana – CALICO Journal, 1994
Studies the performance of a novice Spanish student using a Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) system designed for vocabulary enlargement. Results indicate that introspective evidence may be used to validate performance data within a theoretical framework that characterizes the learning approach as "surface" or "deep." (25 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Foerster, Ursula – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
In teaching adults (i.e., those with language competence between the levels of a high school graduate and a teacher or interpreter), one must consider psychological factors; six are listed, including logic and mental activity in memorizing. Suggestions for drill are given. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, Language Instruction
Witlin, Sh. L. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Reports on 2 investigations of problems of teaching adults (ages 18-40) vs. teaching pupils 10 and 11 years old. Differences are observed in character, temperament, motivation, work capacity, mental processes. Learning ability increases with degree of education rather than age alone. This fact must be considered in a differentiated methodology.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adults
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Wesche, M. Bingham – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Reports the results of an experiment designed to identify and define learning behaviors characteristic of successful adult students in an intensive language program. Findings are interpreted in terms of an information processing model. (AM)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, French, Intensive Language Courses
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Glass, J. Conrad, Jr.; Denny, James B. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1987
Reviews second-language learning literature concerning factors which may affect adult students. Focuses on cognitive mechanisms, cerebral dominance theories, formal operations, motivation, and second-language teaching and learning. Offers suggestions for community college teaching and programs. (DMM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges
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Wagner, Michael J.; Tilney, Germaine – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
A group of adult intensive English students, language teachers, and graduate music education students were taught a 300-word German vocabulary list in a five-week period, some with and some without Baroque music but with superlearning techniques, and some by traditional techniques. Accelerated learning by superlearning methods could not be…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education, English (Second Language)
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Volet, Simone E.; Lawrence, Jeanette A. – Australian Journal of Education, 1988
Five women university students' representations of their learning were analyzed and related to their on-going adaptations to course demands. Representations involved their goals, working plans and perceptions of difficulties. Qualitative data from students' accounts were tabulated schematically in relation to Duncker's concepts of productive…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Females
Bortner, Rayman W., Ed.; And Others – 1974
The proceedings consist of 11 papers grouped in two major categories: the context of adult learning (social significance and fact and fiction about adult learning) and the utilization of learning models for adult instruction. Contributors are Floyd B. Fischer, George L. Maddox, Rolf H. Monge, Eric F. Gardner, Arthur W. Combs, William J. Hoyer,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Powell, Stuart – 1999
Written for professional people returning to study, this book provides practical guidance and strategies to increase confidence, enhance skills, and develop critical awareness and creativity. Chapter 1 helps students identify reasons for return to study and their implications; examine their interpretations of what learning is; and think about…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Saunders, Nancy; Batson, Ted; Saunders, George – 2000
A study focused on the relationship between instructional strategies and students' reported meta-skill attainment in an adult education context. Using the data collected from 2,507 end-of-course surveys of students in the Graduate Studies in Education program at Indiana Wesleyan University, analyses were run to test for correlations between the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
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Gorbet, Frances – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Discusses the value of classifying the errors adult language learners make and of comparing them to errors made by children. It is suggested that teachers correct student errors in the same way parents correct children's errors in order to encourage successful learning. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
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