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Shahini, Gholamhossein; Shahamirian, Fatemeh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This qualitative study, using an open interview, set out to investigate the roles six factors, including age, university education, teachers of English Language institutes, teaching English, dictionary, and note-taking, played in improving English speaking fluency of seventeen fluent Iranian EFL speakers. The participants were chosen purposefully…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Cawthorn, Stephanie W.; Leppo, Rachel – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
Students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing often receive accommodations that are intended to increase access to the educational environment. The authors provide the results of a large national study of accommodations use in secondary and postsecondary settings. The article focuses on three aspects of accommodations use: access, quality, and…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Secondary School Students
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Carrier, Carol A.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1988
Students in a large lecture course were asked to complete the Notetaking Perceptions Survey, an instrument that assesses students' perceptions of the worth or value of notetaking, their perceived level of notetaking activity, and their degree of confidence about their own notetaking skill. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, College Students
Addou, Ibrahim Hassan; Hodinko, Bernard A. – 1989
A study examined the difficulties that 400 male Arab students, attending five universities in the District of Columbia, experienced with academic English while seeking college degrees. A survey investigated problems with nine aspects of English language proficiency: (1) expressing ideas correctly, (2) understanding lectures, (3) taking class…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Age Differences, Arabs, College Students