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Kök, Izzettin – International Journal of Listening, 2018
This study explores the relationship between students' listening comprehension strategy use and their listening comprehension proficiency with regard to the group, level, and degree of strategy use. Forty-four university students of an English Language teaching department comprised the study population. Three listening comprehension tests were…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, College Students, Listening Skills, Correlation
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Saglam, Murat – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
This study aimed to investigate the models that co-existed in students' cognitive structure to explain the interactions between electric charges and uniform magnetic fields. The sample consisted of 129 first-year civil engineering, geology and geophysics students from a large state university in western Turkey. The students answered five…
Descriptors: Cues, Physics, Geophysics, Geology
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Kilic-Cakmak, Ebru – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Rapid increase in information sources in different formats, developments in technology and need for lifelong learning have drawn increased attention to needs for information literacy. Although information literacy is significant for students of all educational levels, it has become even more significant for e-learners. Therefore, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education
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Cubukcu, Feryal – Issues in Educational Research, 2008
This article presents a study of the teacher trainees in an English department who have received instruction in metacognitive awareness for reading comprehension. Metacognition or "thinking about thinking" involves the awareness and regulation of thinking processes. Metacognitive strategies are those strategies which require students to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Preservice Teachers
Alptekin, Cem – Online Submission, 2007
This study explores whether there are differences in the choice of language learning strategy and in the frequency of its use in the concurrent acquisition of two foreign languages, one being learned in a tutored and the other in a non-tutored manner. Specifically, it investigates the tutored learning of English in a formal setting and the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Metacognition, Second Language Instruction
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Akin, Ahmet; Abaci, Ramazan; Cetin, Bayram – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory. The sample of the study consisted of 607 university students. Results of language equivalence indicated that the correlations between Turkish and English forms of the MAI were quite high (r = 0.93). As a result of a series of…
Descriptors: Information Management, Validity, Metacognition, Foreign Countries