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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Learner identity"”.
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Exploring Chinese Graduate Students' Learner Identity in Group Work in Western Academia: Perceptions, Representations and Challenges
… adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learners and graduate students from China. This study examines the perceptions of GW based on the experience of four adult Chinese ESL learners. The study aims to unpack the process of how Chinese ESL graduate students design, implement, and present …
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Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
… the main language English. The study elicited learners� ideas and attitudes about the viability of these languages as languages of teaching and learning through the primary use of interviews. Learners� perceptions of language are discussed within a language ideological framework that …
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Negotiating learner identity in an educational partnership: a qualitative study of pupils learning collaboratively in a school and FEC in Northern Ireland
… this current gap in knowledge by investigating learner identity negotiations in a school-FEC collaboration which is set within an education system that privileges the academic pathway. How students negotiate their learner identity, their sense of themselves as a learner, in a collaboration where …
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From Narration to Performance: The Study of Identity Development of EFL Students at Bejaia University, Algeria
… However, no research has tackled the issues of ‘learner identity’, ‘learner’s voices’, nor looked at innovative teaching approaches where these two elements of identity and language voices can be enhanced. The lack of innovative teaching/learning methods in the Algerian EFL classrooms may have …
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The Complex Construction of Multilingual Identity: A Comparative Study in Three European Contexts of L3+ Learning
… the acquisition of multiple languages has upon a learner’s sense of self, and moreover, studies that consider methods though which we might evaluate and model these constructions of complex self-concept. A greater understanding of such processes of identification has potential social and …
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Exploring the biographies of high-achieving students: how to social environments and classroom experiences enable them to identify as 'good at maths'?
… regulated how easily they could adopt this learner identity. According to previous research, historical and popular discourses portray mathematics as cold, rational, and masculine, and mathematicians as socially incompetent ‘geeks’. Therefore, identifying with mathematics can conflict with …
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Learning Identity Framework: Learning Identity through Self-Awareness
… users on the concept of using a Learning Identity Framework to positively influence learning identity development. As a secondary objective, the research attempts to define and describe the components of the learning informatics framework. Conceptually the Learning Identity Framework will …
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Becoming Somebody - Learning Identities and Trajectories for Students in a Protracted Refugee Situation
… as a starting point, this study used a theory of learner identity to look beyond structural barriers and explore access to higher education from a sociological perspective. The focus of the research developed throughout the analysis process to highlight a more key concern on forms of becoming for …
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Second chance learning and the contexts of teaching: a study of the learning experiences of further education students with few qualifications
… of the learning experiences. Concepts of learner identity, discourse, student and teacher identities and pedagogical traditions were explored in the light of the data. Social capital was used as a heuristic device to examine the mechanics of classroom activity, the bonding of the group and …
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An Arts Based Narrative Inquiry into Learning in an Early Childhood Education and Care Degree
… I position myself within emerging stories of learner, teacher and researcher and formulate a research project that explores learning and teaching in an Early Years degree in Ireland. Using the troublesome concept of intelligence in a first year psychology class a Learning Carnival is devised …
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The influence of the trait-like tendency to rely on declarative- or procedural- like memory systems on the development of habits and compulsive behaviours in the rat
… goal-tracking tendency. I show that “place learner” and “response learner” identity can be predicted by the individuals’ novelty place preference, but not their trait-like anxiety nor their sign- versus goal-tracking tendency. In Chapter 5, I investigate whether the individual tendency to …
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(Re)conceptualising Time and Space in Multilingual Identity Research: A Comparative Study of Public and International High School LOTE Learners in China
… and challenges faced by Chinese high school LOTE learners in different school contexts through investigating the dynamic construction of their multilingual identity (MI) over one academic year. In this study, MI refers to one’s self-perception as a multilingual and awareness of one’s multilingual …