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Learning Strategies as Moderators between Motivation and Mathematics Performance in East Asian Students: Latent Class Analysis
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Wu, Yi-Jhen; Chen, Yi-Hsin; Kiefer, Sarah M.; Carstensen, Claus H. – SAGE Open, 2021
This study applied a three-step latent class analysis (LCA) approach to explore latent classes of learning strategy use and their moderation effects on the relationships between motivation and mathematics performance. The data of 15-year-old students from five East Asian educational systems related to Chinese culture in the Programme of…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Motivation, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Western and Heritage Cultural Internalizations Predict EFL Students' Language Motivation and Confidence
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Lou, Nigel Mantou; Noels, Kimberly A. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Internalizing Western culture can facilitate English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' motivation to learn and confidence to use English. However, the role of heritage cultural internalization and the interactive impact of Western and heritage cultural internalizations on English learning are unclear. We surveyed 172 EFL students from Macao…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Western Civilization
Chinese Learners of Portuguese and Spanish Majors in Macau: A Comparative Case-Study of Motivation Aspects
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Kharlay, Oskana; Bagheri, Martin; Philips, Jeremy D. – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study investigated multiple learning motivation aspects of Chinese university students in Macau majoring in Spanish and Portuguese. A mixed methods research was employed by using questionnaires and interviews. 181 learners (96 Portuguese and 85 Spanish majors) were surveyed about ten language-learning motivation dimensions by using a…
Descriptors: Spanish, Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Science Education of the East Asian Regions--What We Can Learn from PISA
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Lau, Kwok Chi – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2014
The study has integrated the data from PISA 2006 to 2012 to give an overall picture of the cognitive and affective performances and pedagogy of East Asian regions on PISA scientific literacy. Attempts are made to account for their performances based on the PISA data and cultural characteristics. The cognitive science performance of East Asian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Scientific Literacy, Achievement Tests
Macao Students' Attitudes toward English: A Post-1999 Survey
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Young, Ming Yee Carissa – World Englishes, 2006
This paper describes a survey that assessed the attitudes toward English among university students in Macao five years after it reunited with the People's Republic of China and ceased to be a Portuguese colony. A group of 144 Macao-born and 197 Mainland-born Chinese students studying in a university in Macao were surveyed using a 22-item…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Language Planning
Where Immigrant Students Succeed: A Comparative Review of Performance and Engagement in PISA 2003
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Schleicher, Andreas – Intercultural Education, 2006
This report examines how immigrant students performed, mainly in mathematics and reading, but also in science and problem-solving skills in the PISA 2003 assessment, both in comparison with native students in their adopted country and relative to other students across all countries covered in the report (the "case countries"). In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, First Generation College Students, Immigrants