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Bueno-Alastuey, M. Camino; Agulló, Gloria Luque – International Journal of English Studies, 2015
Research has shown that teaching second language (L2) learning strategies explicitly promotes an increase in strategy use and in oral proficiency. Consequently, a checklist based on the six types of strategies from Oxford's taxonomy (1990) was created to analyze strategic instruction in the most common textbooks used in the last year of Higher…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Kyndt, Eva; Dochy, Filip; Struyven, Katrien; Cascallar, Eduardo – Educational Psychology, 2012
This study starts with investigating the relation of perceived workload, motivation for learning and working memory capacity (WMC) with students' approaches to learning. Secondly, this study investigates if differences exist between different student profiles concerning their approach to the learning and the influence of workloads thereon. Results…
Descriptors: Motivation, Short Term Memory, Multivariate Analysis, Profiles
Shahzad, Farhat – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Students' memories and learning strategies are situated in their social relationships, political orientations, cultural meanings, worldviews, and historical experiences. This study uses qualitative research methods to investigate how Canadian students remember and learn about the War on Terror. It deals with the narratives of ninety-nine students…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Qualitative Research, Urban Universities, Research Methodology
Green, Cassandra C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There has been an increase in the number of high school graduates who lack "college-readiness" skills and require more remediation. This study purposed to report the impact of a learning strategies course on first-year students' academic success and persistence as indicated by first semester, second-semester, and third semester grade point…
Descriptors: Seminars, Academic Persistence, Learning Strategies, High School Graduates
Chennamsetti, Prashanti – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between two contrasting research paradigms, namely, cognitive and experiential research, a significant literature review previously unaddressed. To achieve this objective, a conceptual description of three theoretical frameworks, Dual-Store model, Levels of Processing (LOP; drawn from…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Teaching Methods
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Storrs, Debbie – Teaching Sociology, 2009
Here I emphasize the applicability of the sociological imagination to an international audience by sharing my journey of teaching sociology in Japan. I found my own sociological imagination helpful in critically evaluating the literature on Japanese higher education and the construction of the Japanese student as a form of Orientalism. As I…
Descriptors: Imagination, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
Burns, Tom; Sinfield, Sandra – SAGE Publications (CA), 2008
The eagerly-awaited new edition of the successful "Essential Study Skills" continues to provide a truly practical guide to achieving success at university. Whether you are going to university straight from school, a mature student, or an overseas student studying in the UK for the first time, this is the book that will help you to better…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Needs, Independent Study, Learning Strategies
Gentry, Janine M.; Perry, James S. – 1993
This study examines the relationship between test-wiseness, memory, and grade-point average in college students. Test wiseness is defined as a subject's capacity to utilize the characteristics and format of a test to receive a higher score, independent of the examinee's knowledge of the subject matter. Researchers hypothesized that test-wiseness…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Hodge, Milton H.; Britton, Bruce K. – 1981
Previous research by A. I. Schulman argued that an observed systematic decline in recognition memory in long word lists was due to the build-up of input and output proactive interference (PI). It also suggested that input PI resulted from process automatization; that is, each list item was processed or encoded in much the same way, producing a set…
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Memorization
Gorrell, Jeffrey; Downing, Hunter – 1988
The current study was devised to determine the short-term (1 month) and long-term (4 months) effects of having students generate their own examples of selected concepts. More specifically, focus was on determining how self-generated examples might enhance the learning and retrieval of concepts. Subjects were 55 (54 female and 1 male) undergraduate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Higher Education
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Willoughby, Teena; Wood, Eileen; Desmarais, Serge; Sims, Suzanne; Kalra, Michelle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1997
The role of distinctiveness in the differential memory performance of visual and verbal elaboration strategies was studied with 28 undergraduates who learned information about familiar and unfamiliar animals using visual or verbal elaboration strategies. Imagery-using students organized unfamiliar animal information into intact sets more than…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Memory
Noyd, Robert K. – Journal of Cooperation & Collaboration in College Teaching, 2000
Concept maps are diagrams that show students how content is structured. This article asserts that they can be effective teaching and learning tools. It presents one method of concept mapping and several ways it can be used in the classroom. (EV)
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Memory
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Pembrook, Randall G. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1987
Reports on a study which reinforces prior findings on melodic memory that show a majority of students do not sing accurately enough after only one hearing of a melody to benefit from vocalization memory techniques. Questions whether vocalization can be a memory reinforcer in melodies that are shorter and simpler than those used in this research.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Memorization, Memory
Kiewra, Kenneth A. – Engineering Education, 1987
Argues that most teachers do not understand the nature of human memory. Presents an informal introduction to human memory, including information on long-term retention, prior knowledge, retrieval, and cues. States that instructors can design memory-compatible instruction that makes recording and retrieval of new knowledge easier. (TW)
Descriptors: College Science, Cues, Encoding (Psychology), Engineering Education
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Boudreau, Rhonda L.; Wood, Eileen; Willoughby, Teena; Specht, Jacqueline – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1999
One hundred Canadian undergraduates read a lengthy expository text, used one of five study strategies for 50 minutes, and completed recall and multiple-choice tests. Students using self-study, repetition, or unsupported elaborative interrogation had difficulty recognizing the passage's main ideas. Elaborative interrogation's effectiveness was…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
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