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Mateos, Mar; Villalon, Ruth; de Dios, Maria Jose; Martin, Elena – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The aim of the study was to examine reading and writing tasks as learning tools in higher education in Spain. The participants were 171 undergraduates from three different university degree courses. The data were gathered through a questionnaire that explored the kind of tasks carried out by the students, their perception of different aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Task Analysis, Reading Processes, Writing Processes
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Ernest, Carole H. – Intelligence, 1991
Two experiments with 172 undergraduate students (70 males and 102 females) examined the relationship among spatial, imagery, and verbal ability and the multitrial free recall of brief prose passages. Results suggest that the psychological mechanisms underlying prose learning performance clearly differ depending on the ability being examined. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Imagery
Wilkinson, Robert – 1987
A study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of research on individual variation in translation performance. Three translations produced by 20 students in their second year of an advanced English translation program at the Dutch State School of Translation, were analyzed for variability in the translation of Dutch modal verbs. It was…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Dutch, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries