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Cinderella Komolafe; Ágnes Lukács J; Beáta Dávid – Intercultural Education, 2024
This study investigates Roma undergraduates' partner selection patterns, examines the main factors in students' partner selection attitudes, and analyzes the structural role in students' network. We rely on data from semi-structured life-narratives and contact diaries of 67 Roma undergraduates. Three main partner selection patterns were…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Universities, Social Status, Student Characteristics
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Brockett, Ralph G. – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2019
This article explores the process through which John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath." This process can be viewed as a learning process with elements of self-directed and transformative learning. Using primary and secondary sources, including a journal Steinbeck kept while writing the book, four themes are discussed: (1) Steinbeck's…
Descriptors: Novels, Authors, Independent Study, Learning Processes
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Turunen, Inka – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate how computer-assisted use of Reading-through-Writing (RtW) method relates to the level of literacy and reading motivation of school children in grades 1 and 2 (N = 261-385). The research also explored the extent to which the RtW method was perceived as useful among teachers and by school children with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Motivation, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Reading Writing Relationship
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Graham, Suzanne – Language Learning Journal, 2007
This article reports on part of a larger study of the impact of strategy training in listening on learners of French, aged 16 to 17. One aim of the project was to investigate whether such training might have a positive effect on the self-efficacy of learners, by helping them see the relationship between the strategies they employed and what they…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Listening Comprehension, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies
Gould, Christopher – 1994
For a composition teacher--comparing a passage from his Caucasian grandmother's (May Blossom Gould's) diary with the autobiographical narrative dictated by an African-American student's great-great grandmother (Violet McNeil) to a literate member of her family--racial politics and the privileges afforded by literacy irrevocably separate the two…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Blacks, College Students, Comparative Analysis