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Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M. – International Education Studies, 2018
The study aimed to investigate the learning styles and multiple intelligences of English as foreign language (EFL) college-level students. "Convenience sampling" (Patton, 2015) was used to collect data from a population of 250 students enrolled in seven different academic departments at the College of Basic Education in Kuwait. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Multiple Intelligences, English (Second Language)
Davis, Diane M.; And Others – 1990
One hundred ninety-three interior design college students were administered the Group Embedded Figures Test, a measure of field dependence, in order to evaluate two of Witkin's hypotheses regarding career choice. The career-differentiation hypothesis predicted that students electing to major in interior design would be field independent because…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Programs
Pagan-Melendez, Juan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem in the present quasi-experimental research design was the poor English communication skills of college students enrolled in first-year English as a second language (ESL) courses in Puerto Rico. The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare learning outcomes between a first-year English as a second class taught with the…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs, Educational Technology
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Bohn, Mariko T. – Applied Language Learning, 2004
This article examines the influence of Japanese cultural values, beliefs, and educational style on Japanese students learning English as a second language in an American classroom. In contrast to the Japanese students' high motivation to learn English, their classroom behavior and roles reflect their own cultural perspectives rather than the…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Asian Culture, English Language Learners, Cognitive Style