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Yashima, Tomoko; MacIntyre, Peter D.; Ikeda, Maiko – Language Teaching Research, 2018
Recently, situated willingness to communicate (WTC) has received increasing research attention in addition to traditional quantitative studies of trait-like WTC. This article is an addition to the former but unique in two ways. First, it investigates both trait and state WTC in a classroom context and explores ways to combine the two to reach a…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Stavropoulos, Vasilis; Kuss, Daria; Griffiths, Mark; Motti-Stefanidi, Frosso – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2016
Over the last decade, research on Internet addiction (IA) has increased. However, almost all studies in the area are cross-sectional and do not examine the context in which Internet use takes place. Therefore, a longitudinal study examined the role of conscientiousness (as a personality trait) and classroom hostility (as a contextual factor) in…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adolescent Attitudes, Internet, Addictive Behavior
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Al-Saraj, Taghreed M. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The present study focuses on the link between psychological, sociobiographical and linguistic variables and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety of 348 Arabic learners of English (250 females, 98 males). Data were collected using the Arabic Foreign Language Anxiety Questionnaire (AFLAQ; Al-Saraj, 2011, 2014) and an Arabic version of the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Arabs, English (Second Language)
Zanni, Guido R.; And Others – 1978
The relationship between classroom seating preference and personality was explored. Subjects were 81 undergraduate students. Using the same 32-seat classroom, four classes were tested. Students were administered Cattell's 16 PF followed by another questionnaire which contained a diagram of the classroom, and students were asked to indicate their…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Distance, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Wells, Harold C. – 1969
This pamphlet is concerned with achievement motivation. Motives refers to a fairly stable set of personality characteristics which constitute a disposition to strive for certain kinds of satisfaction. The achievement motive is the disposition to strive for success. Two other motives are discussed, affiliation and influence motives. Operant versus…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Classroom Environment, Failure, Individual Characteristics
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Miller, David; Daniel, Brigid – School Psychology International, 2007
This article considers links between self-esteem and resilience, and suggests implications for teachers and schools. A two-dimensional model of self-esteem is employed as a theoretical framework to revisit a range of factors frequently associated with internal resilience. It is argued that because of the way in which self-referent characteristics…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Classroom Environment, Personality Traits, Self Esteem
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Baines, Lawrence A. – Voices from the Middle, 2005
Caught in the fear that "I was headed for an inconsequential life of mediocrity," Baines began to study the writing of philosophers, thinkers, and prophets who seemed to have found a sense of purpose and peace. Through that reading, Baines identified characteristics common to all of them: focus, resilience, the desire to make a positive…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Personal Narratives, Teacher Attitudes, Metacognition
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Guyot, Gary W.; And Others – Small Group Behavior, 1980
Three investigations were conducted to examine the consistency of classroom seating among college students. These three studies indicate that both biological sex and psychological sex may be important when studying human territoriality. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
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Varvel, Terry – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Discusses an observation of a class in English as a second language in which the Silent Way method was used. The focus is on some problems not thoroughly explored in the existing literature. (CFM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Individual Characteristics
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Ramayya, D. P. – Psychology in the Schools, 1972
The major finding of the study indicates that the nongraded program was more beneficial to boys than to girls with respect to attainment of reading skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Environment, Educational Environment
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Peters, David R. – Journal of Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Theories, Classroom Environment, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Totusek, Patsy F. – 1978
A review of research indicates that a relationship may exist between student seating arrangement, student personality characteristics, and student/teacher verbal interaction. To test hypotheses about the functional relationship among these concepts, researchers collected personality data from 285 students in two sections of a college introductory…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment
Dart, Barry C.; And Others – 1988
Personal and environmental variables that characterize students who are involved in different types of interactions in different types of classroom settings were studied. Organizational, behavioral, task, response, and initiation interactions were studied in four eighth-year science classrooms using both student-centered and teacher-directed…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics
WAX, MURRAY; WAX, ROSALIE – 1966
THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES THE IMPACT OF TRADITION ON THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES. IT INDICATES RESEARCHES AND ANALYSES IN EDUCATION HAVE ASSUMED THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO STUDY ONLY INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR IN LEARNING SITUATIONS, THAT ALL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND FORMAL EDUCATION ARE SYNONYMOUS, AND THAT THE TEACHER…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavior, Class Activities, Classroom Environment
Barclay, James R. – 1978
This study investigates the effects of alternate types of curriculum and counseling treatment on elementary school children categorized into six temperament-attitude clusters. Through a second-order factor analysis of a multi-trait multi-source assessment instrument (The Barclay Classroom Climate Inventory), six cluster groups of characteristics…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Analysis of Covariance, Classroom Environment, Cluster Grouping
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