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Wang, Li-Chih; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
This study investigated the learning strategies that university students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) report using in the Chinese language context. Participants were 105 first-year undergraduate students with SLD and 134 typically developing peers. Three questionnaires about reported reading/writing difficulties, metacognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Corbitt, William Keith – Dimension, 2017
Research on the acquisition of foreign languages by at-risk students has primarily focused on the Linguistic Coding Deficit Hypothesis (Horwitz, 2000). Recently, there has been a growing discussion regarding the effects of learning style rigidity (Castro, 2006; Castro and Peck, 2005; Corbitt, 2011; Sparks, 2006) and metacognitive awareness…
Descriptors: Metacognition, At Risk Students, Cognitive Style, Linguistic Theory
Washington, Dora Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explored the learning experiences of higher education students who suffered childhood trauma (CT). Eleven participants both undergraduate and graduate who attended a Midwestern university self-identified as CT survivors. There was research on the negative impact of CT on learning in children and adolescents, as well as posttraumatic…
Descriptors: Trauma, Learning Experience, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
House, Garvey; Zelhart, Paul F. – 1994
The complexity (fractal dimension value) of responses to the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT) between 10 undergraduate students with learning disabilities and a comparison group of 10 students without learning disabilities were compared. The fractal value of responses was assessed under three conditions (copy, immediate, and delay) by…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Comparative Analysis, Fractals, Higher Education
Crank, Joe N. – 1985
This paper reports findings on the academic and intellectual characteristics of undergraduate students attending two midwestern state universities, and outlines specific learning strategies and instructional strategies to alleviate the academic problems of skill-deficient undergraduates. In the first study, the reading performance of 128 college…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Diagnostic Tests