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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Learner Differences"”.
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Vocabulary comprehension of advanced ESL learners in academic reading: A collective case study
… practitioners should be more aware of individual learner differences and similarities in vocabulary comprehension approaches. Second, they can guide their learners to be aware of the benefits of thematically related extensive reading in vocabulary learning. Consciousness-raising about the …
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Effect of restructuring training and field-dependence-independence
… strategies that flow from cognitive style. Learners predisposed to field dependence might gain access to restructuring skills brought to problem-solving Situations by field independents. Thus this study undertook to examine the effects and practicability of restructuring training as a means …
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The Effects of Highlight Color on Immediate Recall in Subjects of Different Cognitive Styles
… been extended to differentiate how color impacts learners of different cognitive style and in particular how color influences field dependency. Learners predisposed to field-dependence continually demonstrate a lower capacity than field-independent learners in terms of performance tasks where …
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EXPLICIT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN SLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACY
… study examined two new pieces of writing by 151 learners of English as a Second Language (ESL), in order to investigate the effect of direct and metalinguistic written feedback on errors with the simple past tense, the present perfect tense, dropped pronouns, and pronominal duplication. This …
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The nature and role of social presence in audiographic, synchronous online language learning contexts
… factors impact on the projection of SP from the learner perspective. I also ask if these perceptions are evidenced through observed aspects of tutor and learner participation. Within the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC), SP theory has evolved from a view of SP as a product of a …
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From Adoption to Actionability: Investigating Learning Analytics Integration in Learning Design for Higher Education Teaching Practice
… design? RQ-3: What is the relationship between learner personality traits and learner engagement across different learning design activities? RQ-1 examined the practicalities required for successful integration through a systematic literature review combining bibliometric and thematic analysis …
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Oral Corrective Feedback, Individual Differences, and L2 Acquisition of French Past Tenses
… most difficult language structures for French L2 learners (Bardovi-Harlig, 2000; Harley, 1989, 1993; Kaplan, 1987). The effects of corrective feedback were also examined in relation to the mediating role of the learners' individual differences in language analytic ability, working memory, and …
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The Aptitude Domain: A Componential Analysis of Learner Aptitude in Second Language Acquisition
… and the respective roles they play in overall learner ability. The present study had two main objectives: first, to discover some of the relationships between the major aspects of learner aptitude, including associative memory, working memory capacity, analytic language processing and …
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Evaluation of the development and application of multimedia computer assisted learning in Higher Education.
… allow the teaching materials to be tailored by learners to accommodate their own individual preferences for adopting particular learning strategies. In particular this focused on the importance of individual learning styles and learners' degree of computer confidence (Chapter 5); 3) the …