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Download full textAlwadaeen, Norah Bakheet; Piller, Bonnie – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
Being continual and future-oriented in all its levels, the field of education is turning towards a student-centered approach. One of the trends to investigate in lifelong learners who keep pace with the fast and unpredictable changing world is enhancing self-directed learning which is considered to be one of the most prominent phenomena for the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Readiness, Student Centered Learning, Grade 3
Alsairi, Meshari A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
Various studies have been carried out in order to find out the suitable age for foreign language acquisition. Every research study has had a different Critical Period (CP) and most of them have not been really close together in terms of years. Critical Period refers to the actual time frame during which foreign language acquisition should take…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Direct linkAldhafeeri, Fayiz M.; Khan, Badrul H. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2016
This article reports on an e-learning readiness study that was carried out to assess the organizational and individual factors of the two major stakeholder groups (teachers and students) in the secondary education institutions in the State of Kuwait in order to provide significant information to the policy makers and regulatory bodies for the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Secondary School Students, Learning Strategies, Educational Policy
Plonsky, Luke; Mills, Susana V. – Applied Language Learning, 2006
This study was designed to measure and bridge the mismatch in perceptions of error correction (EC) between a teacher and his students. The participants were 32 students in two intact, beginner-level Spanish classes at a mid-size university in the Southwest of the US. The treatment consisted of two learner training (LT) sessions (see Reiss, 1981)…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Spanish
Cheung, Man-Chiu Lau – 1999
The relationship between adults' self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) and selected variables was examined in a study of 25 Hong Kong Chinese Baptist Churches. A Chinese version of the Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) was administered to a stratified sample of 820 adult learners and 210 youth learners, and a modified version of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Church Programs, Church Workers
Busta, Colleen – 1990
The purpose of this study was to survey the affective and cognitive progress of three classes of pre-first grade transitional students. An introduction discusses the issue of social promotion, or the promotion of a student regardless of the student's degree of mastery of the previous level, as opposed to grade retention. In an extensive literature…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Grade Repetition
