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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Retrospective interviews"”.
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Resilience factors of university and college students with learning disabilities as revealed through retrospective interviews /
… with learning disabilities as revealed through retrospective interviews. This study has added to the existing literature surrounding resilience especially as it relates to individuals with learning disabilities. This study may provide additional insight into the emotional impacts of repeated and …
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Discourse-level instruction on the acquisition of English present perfect in academic writing
… those three target forms, from the same paper. Retrospective interviews were conducted after the delayed posttest to elicit the ESL participants’ awareness of the target form (PP) and the other two tense-aspect forms (PR, PT). Results of the fill-in task reveal that the discourse-level …
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Communication of sexual information from child to parent
… winter of 2018, a researcher conducted in-depth retrospective interviews with emerging adults from the ages of 18 to 22 to determine what adolescents share with their parents about their sexual beliefs and experiences. Communication privacy management theory was used as a framework for analyzing …
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
… documents from the Syracuse Writing Program and retrospective interviews of past members of the Syracuse University Writing Program. This history is influenced and contextualized through scholarship on contingent faculty labor, writing program administration, and the establishment of stand-alone …
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Investigating the effects of controlled language on the reading and comprehension of machine translated texts: a mixed-methods approach
… tracking, automatic evaluation metrics (AEMs), retrospective interviews, human evaluations, memory recall testing, and readability indices. A further aim of the research is to investigate what, if any, correlations exist between the various metrics used, and to explore the cognitive framework of …
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English reading comprehension of Thai undergraduates : L1/L2 usage, texts, strategies and problems
… University. Student responses to the texts, retrospective interviews, and a questionnaire were used as quantitative and qualitative dota. For qantitative data, the SPSS program was used to analyse the frequency of using the first language, the relationship between scores, texts and question …
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The Writing on the Wall: Examining the Literacy Practices of Home Renovation Work
… of these practices. Through document-based and retrospective interviews, the primary participant is given a voice in identifying and describing the practices and values associated with the texts in his workplace. Literacies identified during interviews are examined in context through …
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Seizing the Circumstances: Adult Reflections on Parental Deportation
… an interpretive phenomenological approach and retrospective interviews to gain understanding of how adults who experienced parental deportation as children made meaning of their experiences over time. Ten Latino adults who had a parent deported when they were between the ages of 7 and 17 were …
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An Analysis of Undergraduate Creative Writing Students'Writing Processes: Gauging the Workshop Models' Effectiveness Through the Lens of Genre Theories
… study uses qualitative methods: semi-structured retrospective interviews, close textual analysis, and in-class observations to understand how creative writers are enculturated into the creative writing community using Christine Tardy's theories of acquiring genre expertise as a framework for …
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A computer-aided error analysis of Saudi students’ written English and an evaluation of the efficacy of using the data- driven learning approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases
… and lexical phrases. A questionnaire and retrospective interviews were used to investigate students’ and teachers’ attitudes and the results encouragingly revealed that they felt positive about the DDL materials. The data shed light on strengths and weaknesses of the DDL and the …
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Social Support Networks for Literacy Engagement among Culturally Diverse Urban Adolescents
… 7 participants completed social network maps and interviews, checklists about their reading and writing choices, and retrospective interviews about their reading and writing practices on self-selected texts. These data were analyzed on the basis of Tardy’s (1985) typology of social support and the …
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Conferencing: A Comparison of Two Modes of Online ESL Peer Response and Their Effects on Student Talk and Subsequent Text Revision
… products. Secondary data, questionnaires, retrospective interviews and student journals, were examined to discover students' perceptions of the role that the different media played in the writing classroom. The study yielded the following findings: (a) the media shaped the way students …
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The cognitive and metacognitive demands of library research as experienced by Form one students : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education at Massey University
… used by students, think aloud/concurrent interviews were conducted individually while 23 Form 1 students (mean age 11 years 8 months) attempted to gather information for a project. These interviews were videotaped and then replayed to students to provide memory cueing for retrospective …
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Projects as distributed cognitive actions : the management of two public building projects
… created where analysis was based on qualitative, retrospective interviews of the project participants and on the documents produced. There were three research questions: What do the documents and other artifacts produced tell about the collective activity which produced them? How can the changes …
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Adults' experience of coping with parental divorce during childhood : a phenomenological perspective
… focused exclusively on children and involved interviews with children themselves at the time of their parents' divorce. No research could be identified on how young adults in South Africa had attempted to cope with their parents' divorce during their childhood and/or adolescent years. This …
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Teacher Rating of Class Essays Written by Students of English as a Second Language: A Qualitative Study of Criteria and Process
… classes. Instruments used were general interviews, think aloud reports while rating their own students' essays, and follow up immediate retrospective interviews. Extensive qualitative coding was undertaken using NVivo. It was found that the teachers did not vary much in the core features …
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A description of reading in the composing process: skilled and unskilled college writers
… composing two drafts of an essay, followed by retrospective interviews. Fifteen skilled and fifteen unskilled college writers, so designated by tests and a writing sample given by the English department, participated in the study at a rural, two-year technical college in a Sunbelt state during …
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A phenomenological study of clients’ experiences of ‘lightness’ and ‘aliveness’ in psychotherapy within the context of Vajrayana cross-cultural therapeutic practices.
… adapted practices and Focusing in therapy. Retrospective interviews were used to explore the experience near question: “Can you describe any moments you have had in therapy in which you felt an increased sense of ‘aliveness’ or ‘lightness’ which began to change your sense of self...you may …
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'What I Didn't Want To Do', 'What I Thought I Would Do', and 'What I Ended Up Doing': Novice EFL Teachers' Narratives of Experience in Learning to Teach
… sources included personal narratives, individual retrospective interviews, a focus group interview, concept maps, analysis of documents (e.g. practicum learning journals and current lesson plans), and classroom observations. Findings revealed that participants' conceptualizations of language …
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An Examination of Athlete Lifestyle Support for Elite Youth Cricketers on a National Development Programme
… 15 and 19. This insight was supplemented by retrospective interviews of players who had previously progressed through the programme. Underpinned by an existential theoretical approach, the project adopted a qualitative research design. Data was collected through observations, field notes, …
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