Locus of control, a psychological construct, has been the focus of attention in recent decades. Psychologists have discussed the effect of locus of control on achieving life goals in social/psychological interactions. While learning a foreign language involves both social interactions and psychological processes, the role and relation of locus of control in foreign language achievement is seemi...

following the innovations in conceptualization of intelligence – form iq, mi, to eq, this study attempts to examine the role of emotional intelligence in second language learning and academic achievement. to this end, 328 students were asked to take the eq questionnaire, the correlations between eq and reading, listening, speaking, writing, and gpa were then computed for all participants and ea...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) refers to a delay in motor development that does not have any known medical cause. Studies conducted in English speaking societies have found that children with DCD display a higher co-occurrence rate of learning difficulties (e.g., problems in reading and writing) than typically developing (TD) children. The present study examined the reading and writi...

Writing is an extremely complex cognitive activity in which the writer required to demonstrate control of variables simultaneously. This research aimed investigate whether there was a significant difference students’ writing achievement before and after being taught through learning style. Since students Islamic Senior High School Sekayu still found it very difficult do. The sample eleventh gra...

School climate is a leading factor in explaining student learning and achievement. Less work has explored the impact of both staff and student perceptions of school climate raising interesting questions about whether staff school climate experiences can add "value" to students' achievement. In the current research, multiple sources were integrated into a multilevel model, including staff self-r...

This study aims to investigate the effect of integrating the Argument-Based Science Inquiry (ABSI) approach with multi-modal representations on students’ achievement, and their argumentation and writing skills. The study was conducted with 62 female and 57 male college students at the Central Anatolian Turkish University. All participants were in their third year of the science education progra...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors evaluated the contribution made by dialect shifting to reading achievement test scores of African American English (AAE)-speaking students when controlling for the effects of socioeconomic status (SES), general oral language abilities, and writing skills. METHOD Participants were 165 typically developing African American 1st through 5th graders. Half were ma...