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Wei, Xiaoxia; Weerasawainon, Aeksing – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Being able to use a foreign language to communicate will increase an individual's opportunities of employment and personal growth, which implies the significance of adopting a lifelong learning approach to language learning. This study was conducted to explore language learners' lifelong learning tendency in general and the key factors affecting…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Chemir, Sileshi; Kitila, Tamene – Cogent Education, 2022
This paper discovers the role of learner's needs analysis in English for academic purposes courses in higher education before designing any language curriculum. The research is essential as it can be used to support students to be aware of their motivation to learn and a basis for teachers in helping students improve their learning motivation.…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, English for Academic Purposes, Student Needs, College Freshmen
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Sarat K. Doley – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
This article describes the findings of a study on the correlations between English as second language (ESL) motivation, understood as a product of the stimulus appraisal system, and writing proficiency in English among undergraduate Indian ESL learners. The principal objective of the study was to analyze the correlation between the undergraduate…
Descriptors: Correlation, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kanoksilapatham, Budsaba; Khamkhien, Attapol; Kitkha, Pensinee; Na Nongkhai, Angsu-orn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
The increasing global and local demands to improve citizens' English proficiency have augmented the significance of English education across the entire paradigm. Meanwhile, motivation has been endorsed as one of the pivotal driving forces that propels the success of language learning. This study represents a large-scale motivational study,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Humanities
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Vezzani, Claudio; Vettori, Giulia; Pinto, Giuliana – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
Research on students' conceptions of learning is a growing and complex area of interest in the field of psychology of education. Even though much of the investigation addressed to explore conceptions of learning at the university level, still less research has considered how naïve (i.e. 'learning as reduction of deficit knowledge through…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, College Students, Gender Differences, Intellectual Disciplines
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Yeh, Huei-Chen – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aims to examine the college students in Taiwan for the attributes of how their English test scores are being affected by language learning strategy use. The university is recognized as a second-tier technology university in Taiwan, as the students are considered to have low levels of English proficiency and learning motivation. A group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Scores, Learning Strategies
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Putwain, Dave; Whiteley, Helen; Caddick, Lee – Educational Research, 2011
Background: It has been claimed that thematic or integrated approaches to curriculum delivery offer a range of advantages over subject-based modes of delivery including improved pupil motivation. Purpose: This study put claims regarding pupil motivation to the test, using the achievement goals framework. This contemporary approach to understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness
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Lee, Terry – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2012
The article theorizes that augmenting traditional humanities course work with documentary video-making can enhance and motivate learning. The English class profiled focused on aging and the lives of elders in an adult daycare center and a retirement community. Students documented elders' stories in video over 15 weeks. The instructor's goal was to…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Humanities, Stereotypes, Documentaries
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Ghadirzadeh, Reyhaneh; Hashtroudi, Fariba Pourabolfathe; Shokri, Omid – English Language Teaching, 2013
The present study investigated the effect of university students' demotivational status, language learning strategies and learning style preferences on their underachievement in English language learning. To begin, 260 Iranian undergraduate students were selected through the multi-stage cluster sampling method. They were put into two successful…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Underachievement
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Sheridan, James – CALICO Journal, 1983
Considering the computer as a collaborator rather than a machine, it is encouraged that those in the humanities and the arts fields take advantage of the great potential that artificial intelligence can offer. Stresses that unless deliberately restricted, the computer is an inherently interdisciplinary medium, and capable of interacting with any…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Activities, Error Analysis (Language), Humanities
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Lens, Willy; Decruyenaere, Marleen – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Characteristics of motivated and demotivated students in humanities and high and low technical secondary education were studied for 1,824 Belgian students in the eighth, tenth, or twelfth grade. Subgroups based on motivation were formed using student self-ratings, teacher ratings, and scores on predictor measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Humanities, Learning Motivation
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Cronin, Michael W.; Cronin, Karen A. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1992
Recent empirical research has identified significant advantages for interactive video instruction over traditional teaching methods in "soft skill" (humanities and social sciences) areas, including cognitive achievement, transfer of learning to performance, learning motivation, student achievement across uncontrolled student characteristics, user…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction