Teaching Undergraduate Students Self-Learning Strategies for Improving Second Language Writing Skills

Improving the writing skills of college students.

Advanced writing skills are an important aspect of academic performance as well as of subsequent work-related performance. However, American students rarely attain advanced scores on assessments of writing skills (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2002). In order to achieve higher levels of writing performance, the working memory demands of writing processes should be reduced so that...

Feedback on second language students’ writing

concept. In order to help tutors provide effective scaffolding, Aljaafreh & Lantolf (1994) attempt to catalogue some of the characteristics of effective scaffolding in an L2 context. They suggest scaffolded help needs to be offered only when needed and removed as soon as the learner is able to function independently; graduated according to the learner’s changing proficiency needs; and must be g...

Teaching Organizational Skills through Self-regulated Learning Strategies

This article presents a case story of how an occupational therapist worked with Joe, a junior high student with Asperger’s Syndrome, to develop better organizational skills. Self-regulated learning strategies were used to teach Joe how to keep track of his assignments as well as his grades. In addition, the case story provides a clear example of how these strategies could be used to teach organ...

Predicting Undergraduate Students’ Acceptance of Second Life for Teaching Chemistry

This study used the technology acceptance model to explore undergraduate students’ perceptions of the virtual world of Second Life (SL) and their intention to use it to learn a chemistry concept. A total of 136 undergraduate students participated in the study by completing a learning task in SL and a self-report measure consisting of 6 variables: perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, per...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students