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Unlocking Cognitive Potential: Exploring the Transformative Power of Task-Based Instruction in Tertiary Language Education
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Eslit, Edgar R. – Online Submission, 2023
Task-Based Instruction (TBI) is a dynamic approach in tertiary language education that emphasizes the integration of authentic and meaningful tasks to enhance language learning outcomes. This study aims to explore the implementation of TBI in the Philippines, investigate its cognitive benefits and transformative nature, identify pedagogical…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Transitions in Higher Education
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Hussey, Trevor; Smith, Patrick – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
This paper offers ideas towards a solution of some of the problems that arise due to the extension of higher education to an ever wider range of students: especially student drop-out. It suggests that, as far as is practical, the design and delivery of higher education should be based upon the major changes or transitions which the students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Transitional Programs
Relationships between Students' Intellectual and Psychosocial Development: An Exploratory Investigation.
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Polkosnik, Mark C.; Winston, Roger B., Jr. – Journal of College Student Development, 1989
Examined rates of cognitive and psychosocial development and the influences of salient life experiences of traditional-aged college students. Results from 15 college students over one academic year suggest that intellectual and psychosocial developmental processes are not uniform, occur at discrepant rates, and are significantly affected by life…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
The Relationships among Counselor-Trainees' Gender, Cognitive Development, and White Racial Identity: Implications for Counselor Training.
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Steward, Robbie J.; Boatwright, Karyn J.; Sauer, Eric; Baden, Amanda; Jackson, James D. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 1998
Gender and lowest stage of cognitive development were found to significantly contribute to the variance in lower levels of white racial identity in a study of white counselor trainees (N=82). Significant relationships were not found between the higher stages of cognitive development and higher levels of white racial identity. Examines gender…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Counselor Training, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Rational and Developmental-Contextual Predictors of Alcohol Consumption by Youth.
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Kuther, Tara L.; Higgins-D'Alessandro, Ann – 1999
This paper examines the relation of cognitive and developmental-contextual variables to alcohol use in adolescence and early adulthood in an attempt to increase the understanding of alcohol use during this age period. Components for each of the rational decision making theories, specifically attitude, subjective norm, and self-efficacy, were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students
A Framework for Freedom: Learner Autonomy in Foreign Language Teacher Education. Foreign Language Teaching in Europe.
van Esch, Kees, Ed.; St. John, Oliver, Ed. – 2003
This book examines whether learner autonomy as a pedagogical approach can improve the quality of foreign language learning. Chapter 1, "A Framework for Freedom," discusses "Learning in Process,""What Is Learner Autonomy? Towards a Definition"; "Why Learner Autonomy? A Rationale"; and "Implications of Learner Autonomy for Foreign Language Learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education