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Hajar, Anas – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This paper explores Arab postgraduate students' situated experiences and their actual and dynamic use of learning strategies at a UK university. The qualitative data collected from a written narrative and five subsequent rounds of individual semi-structured interviews suggest that most participants initially clung to their 'aschematic' future…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Learning Strategies, Arabs, Foreign Countries
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Björklund, Camilla; Magnusson, Maria; Palmér, Hanna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
The focus of this article is on mathematics teaching in a play-based and goal-oriented practice, such as preschool, and on how different lines of actions may impact children's learning opportunities. Video recordings of authentic play activities involving children and nine teachers from different preschools were analyzed qualitatively to answer…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Play, Goal Orientation
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Jeong, Shinhee; McLean, Gary N.; Park, Soyoun – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to explore informal learning experiences among employees working in South Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with fewer than 100 employees. This study specifically seeks to understand the characteristics of informal learning in Korean SMEs and culturally sensitive contextual factors that shape informal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Small Businesses, Phenomenology
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Yilmaz, Özkan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This study investigated the students' individual study and learning strategies. Toward this purpose, open ended question form was administered to 40 university students who have enrolled department of mathematics and science education, faculty of education. Students were selected randomly in all level of class. Qualitative research method was used…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, College Students, Science Teachers
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Ferm, Lisa; Persson Thunqvist, Daniel; Svensson, Louise; Gustavsson, Maria – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
The aim of this article is to investigate the learning strategies vocational students use to become part of a work community, and how these strategies are related to the formation of a vocational identity at the workplace. Conducting qualitative interviews, data were collected from 44 industrial programme students from six upper secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Learning Strategies
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Eker, Cevat; Incirci, Ayhan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study aimed to compare the units related to democracy concept of Social Studies Curriculums applied in Federal Republic of Germany and Republic of Turkey. The goals of the study indicated in Democracy related unit in Social Studies Curriculum in Turkey is examined comparatively with North Rhine-Westphalia State of Germany based on the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Comparative Education, Metacognition, Foreign Countries
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Mitchell, Lynne; Paras, Andrea – Intercultural Education, 2018
Why do some study abroad students improve their intercultural skills, while others revert to less sophisticated ways of making sense of cultural difference? Both intercultural competence theory and transformative learning theory attempt to explain why student intercultural learning occurs, but they only provide partial answers. Building on our…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Study Abroad, Cultural Differences, Transformative Learning
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Soruç, Adem; Griffiths, Carol – ELT Journal, 2018
Although English-medium instruction (EMI) is now widely spread throughout the world, there is surprisingly little research into the challenges students face as they try to learn subject matter by means of a non-native language, or how learners attempt to address these challenges. The study reported in this article employed a qualitative approach,…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Qualitative Research, Video Technology
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Hockings, Christine; Thomas, Liz; Ottaway, Jim; Jones, Rob – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Independent learning is one of the cornerstones of UK higher education yet it is poorly understood by students and is seen by politicians as a poor substitute for face to face teaching. This paper explores students' understandings, approaches and experiences of independent learning and how they may become more effective independent learners. This…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Student Research
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Er, Zübeyde; Artut, Perihan Dinç – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this research was to determine strategies used by 8th grade students in Number Sense problems. This was a case study of 28 8th grade students at three similar secondary schools in a city centre south of Turkey. A Number Sense test consisting of 25 items designed according to five main Number Sense components was used as a data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Grade 8
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Bulut, Berker; Ertem, Ihsan Seyit – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this research is describing and comparing the listening-comprehension strategies used by the students who are identified as successful and less successful about listening. In the research, the case study pattern was used among the qualitative research approaches. In the study, different situations of each student within the same…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Elementary School Students, Case Studies
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Sagasser, Margaretha H.; Kramer, Anneke W. M.; Fluit, Cornelia R. M. G.; van Weel, Chris; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Clinical workplaces offer postgraduate trainees a wealth of opportunities to learn from experience. To promote deliberate and meaningful learning self-regulated learning skills are foundational. We explored trainees' learning activities related to patient encounters to better understand what aspects of self-regulated learning contribute to…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Learning Strategies
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Sisquiarco, Angie; Rojas, Santiago Sánchez; Abad, José Vicente – HOW, 2018
This article reports on an action research study that assessed the influence of cognitive and metacognitive strategies-based feedback in the oral performance of a group of 6th grade students at a public school in Medellin, Colombia. Researchers analyzed students' oral performance through assessment and self-assessment rubrics, applied inventories…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Strategies, Action Research, Grade 6
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Pawlak, Miroslaw; Kiermasz, Zuzanna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Although multilingualism has become a fact of life in the last few decades, this phenomenon has largely failed to find a reflection in research on language learning strategies. Even when scholars have addressed this issue, it has mostly been done with the purpose of proving the advantage of multilingualism over bilingualism, and scant attention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning
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Wang, Yuping; Qi, Grace Yue – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
In the last five years or so, research has extensively explored the benefits and problems of flipped classrooms in helping improve the student learning experience. However, little attention has been given to the kinds of support that students would need in the process of mastering learning outside class. To address this gap in research and…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Foreign Countries
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