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Dawadi, Saraswati – Online Submission, 2017
This study investigated language learning strategies (LLS) used by English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Nepal. For this study, 370 undergraduate level students from a university in Nepal responded to a questionnaire. The quantitative software SPSS was used to analyse the data. Results indicated that students were moderate users of those…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
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Jennings, Elyse A.; Axinn, William G.; Ghimire, Dirgha J. – American Sociological Review, 2012
Theories of family stability and change, demographic processes, and social psychological influences on behavior all posit that parental attitudes and beliefs are a key influence on their children's behavior. We have evidence of these effects in Western populations, but little information regarding this social mechanism in non-Western contexts.…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Marriage, Mothers
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Phuntsog, Nawang B. – Intercultural Education, 2012
This purpose of the study was to ascertain the level of ethnic identity formation and its perceived role on school engagement for Tibetan adolescents enrolled in public schools in two Midwestern states in the USA. The journey of these students from culturally encapsulated schools from Nepal, Bhutan, and India to multiculturally diverse settings…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Public Schools, School Activities, Adolescents
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Harris, Paul L.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Two studies examined the development of children's knowledge of the situations that provoke emotion. English and Dutch (Study 1) and Nepalese (Study 2) children were presented common emotional terms and asked to describe situations likely to provoke each emotion. In both cases, the determinants suggested by the children indicated that children…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Body Language, Children
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Cole, Pamela M.; Tamang, Babu Lal – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Investigated ideas of 50 first-grade children from two different Nepali cultures (Tamang and Chhetri-Brahmin) regarding how they would feel and act in six emotionally challenging situations. Found significant cultural differences. Chhetri-Brahmin children were more likely to endorse negative emotions and to report masking negative emotion. These…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Differences