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Hassankiadeh, Mozhgan Alsadat Ghaffarzadeh; Jahandar, Shahrokh; Khodabandehlou, Morteza – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
Belief is a central construct in every discipline which deals with human behavior and learning (Horwitz, 1985). Also Vocabulary instruction occurs in classrooms every day at a variety of levels and for a variety of purposes. After all, words are the currency of education. The teacher's beliefs about learning will lead them to different strategies…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Beliefs
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Chu, Yu-Wei; Huang, Bih-Shia; Shih, Ming-Piao; Tsai, Chih-Hsin – World Journal of Education, 2012
253 freshmen taking Freshman English from a university of technology in the central Taiwan participated in this study. The purposes of this research were to explore what learning strategy was used more frequently by college students and to investigate the variance of using learning strategies among students of different English proficiency levels.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Christoffels, Ingrid K.; de Groot, Annette M. B.; Kroll, Judith F. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Simultaneous interpreting is a complex skill in which language comprehension and production take place at the same time in two languages. In this study, we examined performance on basic language and working memory tasks that have been hypothesized to engage cognitive skills important for simultaneous interpreting. The participants were native…
Descriptors: Memory, Language Skills, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)