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Jinqi Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the many critiques of views that categorise and simplify Chinese international students' use of memorisation as deficient or rote learning, these views persist. Using ethnographic methods to collect data over 18 months, this study identified the key practices employed by students as they negotiated their learning experiences in an…
Descriptors: Memorization, Rote Learning, Learning Experience, Foreign Students
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Muteti, Caroline Z.; Zarraga, Carolina; Jacob, Brooke I.; Mwarumba, Tuli M.; Nkhata, Dorothy B.; Mwavita, Mwarumba; Mohanty, Smita; Mutambuki, Jacinta M. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Many students transitioning from high school to college are faced with challenges of getting acclimated to college life and managing their time and heavy course load that is cognitively demanding. Students planning to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs in the United States are mostly required to enroll in…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Study Skills
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Fu, Sijing – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study conducted the semi-structured interview to investigate the types of vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) Chinese English major university students employed and the factors for their VLS use. Chinese EFL learners frequently employed determination and cognitive strategies. They mainly used the mechanical strategies and focused on English…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Jinqi – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
This paper investigates the learning experience of Chinese students' learning experience in the business Faculty of an Australian university. Chinese students are often characterized as "rote learners" or stereotyped as "reduced Other". Areas of concern are limited to addressing the differences in learning styles, language, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, College Students, Business Administration Education
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Ahmed, Ambreen; Ahmed, Nawaz – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2017
A survey was conducted to study the preferred learning strategies; that is, surface learning or deep learning of undergraduate and graduate male and female students and the impact of the preferred strategy on their academic performance. Both learning strategies help university students to get good scores in their examinations to meet the demands…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Rote Learning, Learning Strategies, Graduate Students
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Singh, Parmjit; Hoon, Teoh Sian; Rasid, Nor Syazwani; Nasir, Nurul Akmal Md; Han, Cheong Tau; Rahman, Norziah Abdul – Asian Journal of University Education, 2016
Studies related to school mathematics have shown that students who scored well on standardized tests often are unable to successfully use memorized facts and formulae in real-life application outside the classroom. The outcome of TIMSS and PISA studies further emphasizes the importance of mathematics teaching and learning in the Malaysian…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Concepts
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Saravanamuthu, Kala; Yap, Christine – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2014
Deficit theorisations of Chinese Learners studying in western countries are criticised for dichotomising learning attributes into Surface- or Deep-learning approaches. Subsequent context-dependent, small culture studies of students transiting between cultures theorise learning as a dynamic journey of adapting to a range/continuum of learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Foreign Students
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Mathias, Jinhua; Bruce, Megan; Newton, Douglas P. – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
The dissonance between Eastern and Western learning approaches is regarded as an obstacle for Chinese students in adjusting to Western education environments, and one of the reasons is the lack of an understanding of Chinese learning approaches, that is, Chinese learners are uncritically perceived as rote learners. This paper investigates Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Two Year College Students, Asians
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Yang, Wei-dong; Dai, Wei-ping – International Education Studies, 2012
The findings of the study indicate that students prefer to engage in the vocabulary learning strategies that would be most appealing to them and that would entail less manipulation of the language. Of the four vocabulary memorizing strategies cited in the study (rote repetition, structural associations, semantic strategies, and mnemonic keyword…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies
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Lin, Yi-Chun; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between students' epistemic beliefs in biology and their approaches to learning biology. To this end, two instruments, the epistemic beliefs in biology and the approaches to learning biology surveys, were developed and administered to 520 university biology students, respectively. By and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), College Students, Biology
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Peters, Robert A. – Teaching Public Administration, 2014
Students in two iterations of a statistics course were required to develop work-related research questions that could be analyzed by the statistical techniques discussed in class. They were also expected to present the question and other research design components in a manner that could be comprehended by statistical novices. To provide sufficient…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Statistical Analysis
Sinhaneti, Kantatip; Kyaw, Ei Kalayar – Online Submission, 2012
This study was conducted to investigate the role of RL (rote learning) in VLSs (vocabulary learning strategies) of Burmese EFL (English as a foreign language) students. The research addresses the need of the concrete understanding of the role of RL strategy in vocabulary learning as well as Burmese EFL learners' perspectives on RL strategy among…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies, English (Second Language)
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Woollacott, L.; Simelane, Z.; Inglis, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
This article reports the findings of an inductive study on the learning behaviours and language difficulties of a small group of English additional-language students entering a school of chemical and metallurgical engineering in South Africa. Students were interviewed in their home language. While they appeared to have had a reasonable grounding…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Rote Learning, Engineering
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Rochecouste, Judith; Oliver, Rhonda; Mulligan, Denise; Davies, Martin – Australian Universities' Review, 2011
The English Language Growth (ELG) Project was conducted in five Australian universities in 2008-09 to address the on-going English language development of international students from non-English speaking backgrounds. Using an online survey inviting both qualitative and quantitative responses, 798 international students provided a rich source of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Rote Learning, Metacognition
Rashidi, Nasser; Omid, Ahmad – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Iranian EFL learners' beliefs on the role of RL in vocabulary learning, and how it could affect their achievement. One-hundred and three students majoring in English (Literature, Translation, and Teaching) at the Departments of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Roudehen and the Western Branch of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Memorization, Correlation, Foreign Countries
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