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Kim, Kathy MinHye; Maie, Ryo; Suga, Kiyo; Miller, Zachary F.; Hui, Bronson – Language Learning, 2023
This study addresses the role of awareness in learning and the variables that may facilitate adult second language (L2) implicit learning. We replicated Williams's (2005) study with a similar group of academic learners enrolled at university as well as a group of non-college-educated adults in order to explore the generalizability of the findings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Individual Differences, Intelligence, Generalizability Theory
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Teng, Mark Feng; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Limited studies have been conducted on delineating the rationale behind individual differences in children developing metacognitive knowledge, as well as reading and writing proficiency. Aims: This study examined the dynamics of children's development of metacognitive knowledge as well as reading and writing proficiency during their…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading
Jung, Sehoon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the central questions in recent second language processing research is whether the types of parsing heuristics and linguistic resources adult L2 learners compute during online processing are qualitatively similar or different from those used by native speakers of the target language. While the current L2 processing literature provides…
Descriptors: Age, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Li, Haishan; He, Qingshun – English Language Teaching, 2016
Ambiguity tolerance and perceptual learning styles are the two influential elements showing individual differences in EFL learning. This research is intended to explore the relationship between Chinese EFL learners' ambiguity tolerance and their preferred perceptual learning styles. The findings include (1) the learners are sensitive to English…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Chinese
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2017, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 29 of April to 1 of May, 2017. Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Outcomes of Treatment
Subekti, Nanang Bagus; Lawson, Michael J. – International Education Journal, 2007
The ways that students learn new words when studying a foreign language is not well understood. Research in this field has commonly investigated the effectiveness of the application of certain vocabulary learning strategies. Relatively few of the studies have investigated the strategies that students use to learn new words. This paper reports the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning