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Mickwitz, Åsa; Suojala, Marja – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
High self-efficacy beliefs and effective self-regulatory strategies are increasingly important in academic settings, and especially in developing academic writing skills. This article deals with how students develop academic writing skills in two different pedagogical settings (as autonomous learners and in a traditional learning environment), and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Personal Autonomy, Self Efficacy
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Nukari, Johanna M.; Poutiainen, Erja T.; Arkkila, Eva P.; Haapanen, Marja-Leena; Lipsanen, Jari O.; Laasonen, Marja R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Effectiveness of individual and group-based neuropsychological interventions on cognitive aspects of dyslexia in young adults was evaluated. Dyslexic adults were randomly assigned into individual intervention (n = 40), group intervention (n = 40), or wait-list control group (n = 40). The interventions focused on cognitive strategy learning,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Intervention, Young Adults, Cognitive Processes
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Mutta, Maarit; Johansson, Marjut – Language Learning Journal, 2018
Verbal protocols are usually used to study cognitive processes involved in various activities, as it is argued that they could make implicit processes of thinking visible and thus reportable. Here, it is proposed that verbalisations can also be approached from another angle, namely as a discourse that contains linguistic markers of writers'…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Processes