Individual Learners

Author : W. Ray Crozier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134785926

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Individual Learners by W. Ray Crozier Pdf

No two learners are the same. They take different approaches to learning tasks and they respond to formal education in different ways. Yet the current emphasis in education is on what is common to learners, from a common curriculum to a common teaching method. Individual Learners reviews and discusses recent research that shows that differences in personality contribute significantly to children's and adults' experiences of success and failure in education. Individual Learners considers fundamental issues in the study of personality, and provides an up-to-date review and evaluation of the continuing nature-nurture debate. It then examines five traits that can have an impact upon learning: aggressiveness, anxiety, achievement, motivation, self-confidence and shyness. The book provides an accessible account of the recent research into the links between personality and education and its implications for educational practice. It will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in education, whether students, teachers or lecturers.

Author : Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030757267

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Investigating Individual Learner Differences in Second Language Learning by Mirosław Pawlak Pdf

This edited book brings together ten empirical papers reporting original studies investigating different facets of individual variation second language learning and teaching. The individual difference factors covered include, among others, motivation, self, anxiety, emotions, willingness to communicate, beliefs, age, and language learning strategies. What is especially important, some of the contributions to the volume offer insights into intricate interplays of these factors while others attempt to relate them to learning specific target language subsystems or concrete instructional options. All the chapters also include tangible implications for language pedagogy. The book is of interest to both researchers examining the role of individual variation in second language learning and teaching, teacher trainers, graduate and doctoral students in foreign languages departments, as well as practitioners wishing to enhance the effectiveness of second language instruction in their classrooms.

Author : Paola Barchi
Publisher : Reggio Children Publications
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 8887960259

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Making Learning Visible by Paola Barchi Pdf

Author : Rahimi, Mehrak
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466685208

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Handbook of Research on Individual Differences in Computer-Assisted Language Learning by Rahimi, Mehrak Pdf

The latest advances and trends in technology have enabled rapid development in the field of language education. Students and teachers alike now benefit from the assistance of various technological innovations, thus increasing the overall effectiveness of the curriculum. The Handbook of Research on Individual Differences in Computer-Assisted Language Learning addresses the implementation of current research methodologies within EFL and ESL classroom settings and the variety of modifications employed by language experts. Focusing on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies, this book is an essential reference source for applied linguists, CALL researchers, language teachers, and upper-level students within the field of foreign language education.

Author : Claudia Giudici,Carla Rinaldi,Mara Krechevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Early childhood education
ISBN : 8887960674

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Making Learning Visible by Claudia Giudici,Carla Rinaldi,Mara Krechevsky Pdf

Author : Howard Hills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317117155

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Individual Preferences in e-Learning by Howard Hills Pdf

Trainers and educators ask: 'What personality types do best at e-learning; who really likes e-learning?' Better that they should ask: 'How can we make e-learning more appealing to more people?' E-learning is here to stay in the same way that the Internet is here to stay. The classroom, as a mass education tool, was an invention of the industrial age and we have made good use of it. E-learning is an invention of the information age but we have yet to properly realise its potential. Some of the steam has gone out of e-learning. Organizations have experienced problems with technology, variable content, poor course take-up and even greater drop-out. The problem is that what appeals to the organization, a mass training and development medium that can be used to train everyone at once, is at odds with - or at least ignorant of - the learning needs of the individual. Individual Preferences in e-Learning focuses on the process of e-learning, with the emphasis on learning and individual differences. With a firm rooting in previous research, in particular the author's in-depth knowledge of the MBTITM functions, this book shows you how to make e-learning work for different personality types.

Author : Elena Jurasaite-O’Keefe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000422221

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Individual, School, and National Factors Impacting Teachers’ Workplace Learning by Elena Jurasaite-O’Keefe Pdf

By drawing on observation and detailed discourse analysis from interviews with teachers in Lithuanian and North American schools, this text identifies individual, school-specific, and national factors which impact teachers’ informal professional learning. Addressing multiple layers of teacher learning, this text illustrates how factors including socio-economic status, individual learning style, cultural attitudes to education, and political histories support or impede workplace learning. Drawing on three fields of research—teacher education, cultural anthropology, and comparative international—the book posits teacher learning as a multidimensional socio-cultural process. Finally combining a typology of informal learners with other policy-driven factors, the text indicates how practices at school, district, and national levels might stimulate workplace learning. Offering methodological innovations including unique research design and creative ways of using discourse analysis, this book will be of particular use to researchers and doctoral students in education, organizational and educational psychology, cultural anthropology, management, and beyond.

Author : David H. Jonassen,Barbara L. Grabowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136480997

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Handbook of Individual Differences, Learning, and Instruction by David H. Jonassen,Barbara L. Grabowski Pdf

Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins with one basic premise: individual differences mediate learning at all levels and in all situations. That is, some learners find it easier or more difficult to learn some skills or to learn from certain forms of instruction because they vary in terms of aptitude, cognitive styles, personality, or learning styles. This volume describes most of the major differences in a readable and accessible way and demonstrates how to design various forms of instruction and predict the ease with which learners will acquire different skills. Most books that discuss any learner differences focus on those that characterize special education populations, whereas this book focuses on normal learners. Designed as a handbook, this volume is structured to provide easy and consistent access to information and answers, and prescriptions and hypotheses. When definitive answers are not possible because there is no research documentation, the authors suggest theories designed to stimulate future research.

Author : Jill E. Stefaniak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Learning
ISBN : 1536136182

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Self-regulated Learners by Jill E. Stefaniak Pdf

Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies, Performance, and Individual Differences is a compilation of scholarly efforts placing attention on self-regulated learning in a variety of learning contexts, ranging from early childhood education through higher education. The overall mission of this book is to provide educators with a resource that provides strategies, assessment tools, and best practices for developing the self-regulated learner. This book explores the inherent complexities associated with educating diverse learners. A variety of assessment tools are included in this text to assist educators with assessing their learners abilities to self-regulation as well as examples of how instruction can be scaffolded to promote self-regulating behavior. Chapters included in this book explore faculty and student relationships as it relates to students academic achievements. Heuristics are provided for teaching and coaching students how to become self-regulated learners. Resources are provided to assist educators with promoting students with disabilities executive functioning as it relates to self-regulation. Other contributions address strategies to assist learners to self-regulation while learning from failure. Each chapter provides insight into how self-regulation has been explored in contextualized environments. This book is intended to share these unique examples with other educators and to continue the conversations and scholarship surrounding the topic of the self-regulated learner.

Author : Janusz Arabski,Adam Wojtaszek
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694362

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Individual Learner Differences in SLA by Janusz Arabski,Adam Wojtaszek Pdf

Beginning from the conflict between individual learner differences and the institutionalized, often inflexible character of formal language instruction, Individual Learner Differences in SLA addresses the fact that despite this apparent conflict, ultimate success in learning a language is widespread. Starting with theoretically-based chapters, the book follows the thread of learner differences through sections devoted to learner autonomy; differentiated application of learning strategies; diagnostic studies of experienced learners’ management of the learning process; and reports on phonological attainment and development of language skills. Rather than providing an overview of all individual variables, the book reveals how some of them shape and affect the processes of language acquisition and use in particular settings.

Author : Raphael Berthele,Isabelle Udry
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103249

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Individual differences in early instructed language learning by Raphael Berthele,Isabelle Udry Pdf

Variability in predispositions for language learning has attracted scholarly curiosity for over 100 years. Despite major changes in theoretical explanations and foreign/second language teaching paradigms, some patterns of associations between predispositions and learning outcomes seem timelessly robust. This book discusses evidence from a research project investigating individual differences in a wide variety of domains, ranging from language aptitude over general cognitive abilities to motivational and other affective and social constructs. The focus lies on young learners aged 10 to 12, a less frequently investigated age in aptitude research. The data stem from two samples of multilingual learners in German-speaking Switzerland. The target languages are French and English. The chapters of the book offer two complementary perspectives on the topic: On the one hand, cross-sectional investigations of the underlying structure of these individual differences and their association with the target languages are discussed. Drawing on factor analytical and multivariable analyses, the different components are scrutinized with respect to their mutual dependence and their relative impact on target language skills. The analyses also take into account contextual factors such as the learners’ family background and differences across the two contexts investigated. On the other hand, the potential to predict learner’s skills in the target language over time based on the many different indicators is investigated using machine learning algorithms. The results provide new insights into the stability of the individual dispositions, on the impact of contextual variables, and on empirically robust dimensions within the array of variables tested.

Author : Rebecca L. Oxford,Carmen M. Amerstorfer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350005051

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Language Learning Strategies and Individual Learner Characteristics by Rebecca L. Oxford,Carmen M. Amerstorfer Pdf

This innovative book focuses on the relationships among self-regulated language learning strategies, students' individual characteristics, and the diverse contexts in which learning occurs. It presents state-of-the-art, lively, readable chapters by well-known experts and new, promising scholars, who analyze learning strategy theory, research, assessment, and use. Written by a team of international contributors from Austria, Canada, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Turkey, the UK and the USA, this volume provides theoretical insights on how strategic learning interacts with complex environments. It explores strategy choice and the fluidity and flexibility of learning strategies. Research-based but practical themes in the book include strategy-related teacher preparation; differentiated strategy instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners of different ages, cultures, and learning styles; and creative, visualization-based development of strategy awareness. Examining methodologies for strategy research and assessment, the volume explores narrative, decision-tree, scenario-based, and questionnaire-based research, as well as mixed-methods research and new assessment tools for young learners' strategies. It presents research on strategies used for foreign/second language pronunciation, pragmatics, listening, reading, speaking, writing, and test-taking. By providing a wide range of examples of strategies in research and action in a number of countries, cultures, and educational settings, and by offering incisive section overviews and a detailed synthesis at the end, this book enables readers to develop a holistic understanding of language learning strategies. With additional online strategy materials available for downloading, Language Learning Strategies and Individual Learner Characteristics is invaluable to all those interested in helping language students learn more effectively.

Author : Carol Griffiths,Adem Soruç
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030529000

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Individual Differences in Language Learning by Carol Griffiths,Adem Soruç Pdf

This textbook takes a Complex Systems Theory approach to examine individual differences between learners and the potential impact of these variables on the process of acquiring a second language. The authors argue that individual variables cannot provide the complete picture, and that they must instead be understood as part of an interconnected and dynamic system of different factors in order to be useful in a language learning context. Written in an accessible style and suitable for final-year undergraduate and Masters-level students, the book includes clear definitions of key terms, discussion questions for classroom use, practical exercises and activities, and examples of real empirical studies that students and teachers can replicate in their own contexts. This textbook will be of interest to students taking TESOL and SLA courses and modules, as well as those on broader Applied Linguistics programmes.

Author : Miroslaw Pawlak,Mariusz Kruk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000645149

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Individual differences in Computer Assisted Language Learning Research by Miroslaw Pawlak,Mariusz Kruk Pdf

This book syntheses cutting-edge research on the role of individual differences (IDs) in the field of SLA and in computer assisted language learning. It also outlines the theoretical and methodological issues at the heart of this research, presents empirical findings and charts future directions of this research. Pawlak and Kruk provide an overview of the latest theoretical developments in research on IDs in SLA as well as methodological considerations that are crucial when researching individual variation, with special emphasis on data-collection procedures that are most prominent in CALL. The book goes on to summarize and explore a body of empirical evidence concerning the role of individual difference factors in CALL, singling out existing gaps, methodological problems, and areas in need of further investigation. Finally, the authors provide a guide on how empirical investigations of individual difference factors in CALL can be improved by incorporating latest developments from the broader field of SLA. This book will be of great interest to postgraduates and scholars in the domain of applied linguistics and second language education who are interested in CALL, as well as those studying and undertaking research in second language learning and teaching.

Author : Jennifer Friberg,Kathleen McKinney
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780253042866

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Applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning beyond the Individual Classroom by Jennifer Friberg,Kathleen McKinney Pdf

When the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) emerged, it often concentrated on individual faculty practice in one classroom; it is now, however, increasingly common to find work in SoTL focused more broadly. SoTL studies may engage with a cluster of courses, a program, a particular population of students, a pedagogical approach, or a field—all of which are represented in the essays collected here by authors from a diverse array of institutions and nations. This volume features examples of SoTL research conducted in, and applied to, a variety of contexts and disciplines, offering a theoretical framework for an expanded vision of SoTL—one that moves beyond the individual classroom.