The initial study of the nature of learning and cognition dates back to centuries, to Greek philosophers, the antique life-long learners striving for Truth by exploring Laws of Human Mind and the Universe. Since then, the essence of learning has been studied by many disciplines in parallel. Only by the end of the 2 millennium all studies merged their methods and achievements within a technology...

This study developed a mobile-memo system that supports the knowledge acquisition and posting-question to assist learners’ learning in a ML (mobile learning) environment. To understand the effectiveness of our proposed system, the data were collected from the system logs, such as the elements of multimedia used in posting-question and a questionnaire regarding the students’ learning attitude as...

This paper reports a qualitative study on the Chinese language learning trajectories of non-native Chinese instructors as successful Chinese language learners. While some literature has been found on studying good learners of English and other languages, there is a lack of research on studying good learners of the Chinese language, especially on their life-long Chinese learning process. Six act...

E-learning is emerging as the new paradigm of modern education. Worldwide, the e-learning market has a growth rate of 35.6%, but failures exist. Little is known about why many users stop their online learning after their initial experience. Previous research done under different task environments has suggested a variety of factors affecting user satisfaction with e-Learning. This study develope...

Reductions in perceptual fluency have been shown to negatively impact attitudes towards learning material, but not learning itself. The current study extends this work to spoken presentations and examines whether the presence of a foreign accent negatively affects learners’ experience in an online learning environment. Results indicate that the presence of an instructor accent, consistent with ...

The Virtual University is a learning environment at the University of Hagen, which is a distance teaching university. The – mainly employed – distance students need assistance in their difficult learning situation in many ways. Main goal of this paper is to provide students with appropriate and reasonable to use learning material any time any location where we assume that our learners have thei...

This work investigated crosslinguistic perception of Mandarin utterances conveying six classes of attitudes, i.e., dominant/ submissive, friendly/hostile, polite/rude, serious/joking, praising/blaming, and sincere/insincere. Five groups of subjects were tested: native Mandarin speakers, Japanese L2 learners of Mandarin, French L2 learners of Mandarin, naïve Japanese without Mandarin ability, an...

This study aimed at investigating the Iranian undergraduate EFL students’ and teachers’ attitude towards Partnership Approach as a new way of engaging learners in the learning process. A descriptive, ethnographic research method, using a questionnaire along with focus group semi-structured interview, was employed. Seventy-two undergraduate EFL learners and 40 EFL teachers with more than ten yea...

All learners depth and caliber of learning are mostly impacted by their teachers. The study explores the level usage following approaches, attitude towards ALS various teaching methods. It assesses learner engagement, motivation, achievement in program. was conducted Centers Municipality Libertad Initao, respondents were (n=171) district Libertad, Initao North, South, Division Misamis Oriental,...

The key in language learning and acquisition is exposure towards said language. most feasible for English learners the EFL setting reading due to practicality, continuity, suitable sources. Their success depends on their attitude, motivation, habit. This research sought determine state of learners’ habit toward English. qualitative exploratory was initiated 2020, taking place at State Islamic U...