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Mei Zhou; Puyuan Zhang; Catherine Mimeau; Shelley Xiuli Tong – Child Development, 2024
Abstract The relation between statistical learning and working memory in children with developmental dyslexia (DD) remains unclear. This study employed a distributional and a conditional statistical learning experiment and a working memory task to examine this relation in 651 Chinese 6- to 12-year-olds with and without DD (N[subscript DD] = 199,…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries, Children
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Zhang, Bixi; Deng, Zhijun; Zhang, Heyi; Chen, Yinghe – Infant and Child Development, 2022
This study investigated whether familiarity and expertise of a dissenter would lessen the trust of a three-person majority among preschoolers in a Chinese sample. The results indicated that preschoolers preferred to trust a majority rather than a stranger dissenter. However, when familiarity and expertise of the dissenter were manipulated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Familiarity, Trust (Psychology), Preschool Children
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Wu, Kechao; Jin, Xinglong; Wang, Xiaoyan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This work investigates students' familiarity and understanding of laboratory safety knowledge among students in the College of Environmental Science and Safety Engineering at Tianjin University of Technology. A total of 1301 undergraduates and graduates participated in a survey of students' safety knowledge. The questionnaire covered the GHS…
Descriptors: College Students, Familiarity, Comprehension, Laboratory Safety
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Maguatcher Jeremie; Gulinuer Maimaiti; Ning Ru – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
China has become an increasingly popular destination for international students pursuing graduate education. This research examines the factors influencing international graduate students' willingness to work in China, focusing on motivational aspects, employment considerations, and the challenges faced in the Chinese job market. The study employs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Influences
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Fangfang Cai – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2025
Teachers' perceptions are important in identifying and serving gifted children. However, little attention is given to gifted education in the early years in China. This study aimed to investigate teachers' perceptions of young gifted children (aged 3-6), exploring teachers' understandings, feelings, practices, and perceived challenges. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Young Children
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Zhang, Wenjie; Liang, Geying; Guo, Zimei; Liu, Yi; Fan, Wei – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
In order to explore the development mechanism of construction theory in the field of moral judgment, this study investigated the influence of age and social distance on such moral expectations in positive moral context and negative moral context. In both positive and negative moral contexts, 5-6-year-old children had the highest moral expectations…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Age Differences, Young Children, Expectation
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Zhang, Heyi; Xia, Yuting; Lin, Qinyi; Chen, Yinghe – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Understanding emotions based on false beliefs is a necessary component of theory of mind. Previous research has indicated a lag in children's understanding of belief-based emotions as compared to false beliefs. Experiment 1 involved 83 Chinese 3- to 5-year-old children who were tested for the developmental change of the belief-emotion lag.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Beliefs, Emotional Response
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Dezhong Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study is devoted to the study of the digital divide between the developed and frontier regions of China, as a model for solving the problems of the global digital divide. The research is based on a representative sample of 1,520 high school students and 220 teachers. The study included several successive stages; each of them was devoted to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Information Technology, Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Dall, Jonas Olsen; Wang, Yong-ming; Cai, Xin-lu; Chan, Raymond C. K.; Sørensen, Thomas Alrik – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Using Chinese characters, we investigated how stroke count and frequency of use influence attention and short-term memory (STM) encoding in Mainland Chinese speakers. To isolate specific components of attention we employed the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA), which allowed estimates of STM capacity, processing speed, and the threshold of visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Visual Stimuli, Short Term Memory
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Jian Xu; Xuyan Qiu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study examines four learner engagement dimensions (behavioural, cognitive, emotional and social) in pedagogical task performance and provides insights into the effects of two task types (information-seeking and direction-giving) and topic familiarity on learner engagement in a semester-long English course. A total of 28 foreign language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learner Engagement
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Wenyu Guan; Poonpilas Asavisanu – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
This study investigates the prevailing challenges in teaching English for Medical Purposes (EMP) within Chinese higher education institutions in Guangdong Province, intending to propose strategies for improving the quality and efficacy of EMP instruction. Based on comprehensive responses from EMP instructors and students, three primary issues…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Medical Education
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Yanjie Li; Cindy Brantmeier; Yanming Gao; Mike Strube – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This experimental study examined the effect of answering strategic adjunct questions (AQs) on L2 reading comprehension and strategy use. Participants were 124 Chinese intermediate advanced EFL learners from a large public university in China. Of them, 24 and 100 participated in the pilot study and formal study, respectively. Participants read two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questioning Techniques, Reading Strategies
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Shadiev, Rustam; Wang, Xueying; Liu, Taoying; Yang, Mengke – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Fifty-one learning strategies were developed and validated in this study to make language learners more knowledgeable about unfamiliar environments. The study tested the effectiveness of the strategies in improving the creativity of students. 75 university students participated in the study and they were divided into three groups: (1) students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, English (Second Language), Educational Environment
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Zhang, Zhen – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Previous work has provided evidence that both merit and social relationships guide resource distribution in children. However, no prior studies have addressed the question of how children as third-party distributors balance the 2 factors when they are in conflict with one another. Two studies tested 7-year-old Chinese children's allocation of 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Young Children, Rewards
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Zhang, Yanyan – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
With the emergence of different varieties of English in the world, the issue of intelligibility has attracted many researchers' attention. While a large number of studies have focused on the intelligibility of different English varieties for native speakers, few of them have involved Chinese learners of English as participants; yet, they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Pronunciation, Dialects
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