Search results for "learner"

Promotion of learner autonomy in the EFL classroom : the students' view

2013

Oppijan autonomisuudella tarkoitetaan oppijan sisäistä kykyä hallita omaa oppimistaan, eli kykyä asettaa omia oppimistarpeita vastaavia tavoitteita, toimia näiden tavoitteiden mukaisesti, ja arvioida omaa etenemistä. Kirjallisuuden mukaan formaali opetus voi joko edistää tai ehkäistä oppijan autonomisuuden kehitystä. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, missä määrin opiskelijoiden mielestä oppijan autonomisuutta edistetään lukion englannin kielen opetuksessa sekä kuinka tyytyväisiä opiskelijat ovat kokemaansa oppijan autonomisuuden edistämiseen. Tutkimuksen aineisto kerättiin kyselylomakkeella, jonka jälkeen aineisto analysoitiin kvantitatiivisesti. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat…

Students’ characteristics and teacher–child relationships in instruction: A meta-analysis

2012

Abstract This article suggests that students’ characteristics play a more important role in classrooms than has previously been thought. To investigate this, a computerized literacy search was conducted, finding 19 studies that focused on the topic. On the basis of these studies a meta-analysis was carried out in which 23 effect size estimates were computed. The results showed that teachers reported more conflict and child dependency, and less closeness in teacher–child relationships when interacting with students who exhibited either a high level of external or a high level of internal problem behavior. In contrast, teachers reported less conflict and more closeness in teacher–child relati…

Beliefs about second language acquisition held by dysphatic students

2006

Using Automatic Morphological Tools to Process Data from a Learner Corpus of Hungarian

2014

The aim of this article is to show how automatic morphological tools originally used to analyze native speaker data can be applied to process data from a learner corpus of Hungarian. We collected written data from 35 students majoring in Hungarian studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The data were analyzed by magyarlanc, a sentence splitter, morphological analyzer, POS-tagger and dependency parser, which found 667 unknown word forms. We investigated the recommendations made by the Hungarian spellchecker hunspell for these unknown words and the correct forms were manually chosen. It was found that if the first suggestion made by hunspell was automatically accepted, an accuracy score…

It's nice to learn English when one has a teacher like mine : learner perceptions of English teachers as motivators

2013

Second language demotivation : factors that discourage pupils from learning the English language

2004

Finnish high school students and possible L2 selves

2010

Adults learning Finnish as a foreign language : role of support, emotions and reasons connected with learning

2015

The purpose of this research study was to examine adults learning Finnish as a foreign language while striving to understand the reasons behind their decisions to do so, the support that was individually offered to the participants, how they felt throughout the learning process, and whether or not they found themselves to be self-reliant learners, as per Knowles’ andragogy theory. This study set out to examine adult language learners participating in the language and integration program at Palapeli2 project and in the Suomi 2 language course at the Open University. Through a two part (in the beginning and completion of the course) qualitative interview process, a total of eight learners wer…

Exploring Gameful Motivation of Autonomous Learners

2022

In this explorative study, we investigated motives of autonomous learners to participate in an online course, and how these motives are related to gameplay motivations, engagement in the course experience, and learning outcomes. The guiding premise for the study has been the idea that learning and game playing carry phenomenal similarities that could be revealed by scrutinizing motives for participating in a massive open online course that does not involve any intentionally game-like features. The research was conducted by analyzing survey data (N = 705) collected from individuals who had voluntarily participated in an open online course about artificial intelligence and its societal impact…

‘So close, yet so different’ – reflections on the multicultural course of Slavic languages

2019

The complexity of language learning may be expanded to learning the languages belonging to the same language family, for example, Slavic languages. This paper reports on the reflection-on action research aimed at the increase of learners’ multicultural competence and enhancement of critical thinking at the interdisciplinary, blended course of Slavic languages and cultures. The course organized in modules is implemented in Moodle. Course content is designed by the teacher; however, Slavic languages are presented by native speakers of these languages. Learners have an opportunity to get familiar with Slavic languages, history, and culture from the presenters’ perspective, what generally resul…