This study used questionnaires eliciting quantitative and qualitative data to investigate (1) foreign language learners’ beliefs about peer feedback on pronunciation before after a intervention (2) providers’, receivers’, teacher receivers’ experiences of the intervention. Participants included 127 first-year learners German. They were assigned provider group, receiver or control group. After g...

Previous research indicates that students’ adaptation to task complexity in the planning stages of self-regulated learning are related to their epistemological beliefs (Stahl, Pieschl, & Bromme, 2006), but it is an open issue if students enact similar strategies in subsequent stages. Based on the COPES-model (Winne & Hadwin, 1998) the impact of epistemological beliefs on learning is tested here...

for useful discussions, comments, and suggestions. Of course, all remaining errors are our own. Abstract This paper proposes a new approach for modeling investor fear after rare disasters. The key element is to take into account that investors' information about fundamentals driving rare downward jumps in the dividend process is not perfect. Bayesian learning implies that beliefs about the like...

In college English teaching, it is necessary to analyze students' learning beliefs based on their beliefs, and provide effective education students this basis. major have both internal external motivation for knowledge, are closely related specific concepts. The "Characteristics Changes of the Concept College Learners" a paper concept learners. article explores problem attribution, object analy...

the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

This study investigated the interrelationships among EFL learners’ self-efficacy, autonomy and listening comprehension ability. Ninety female learners of intermediate level participated in the study. They were between 16 and 24 years old. In order to obtain the required data on the three variables (i.e., self-efficacy, autonomy, and listening comprehension ability), the researchers, after admin...

Introduction One of the core ideas of many models of self-regulated learning concerns learners’ adaptation of their learning process to external conditions of learning scenarios. Additionally, theoretical models as well as empirical studies indicate that these adaptations might be influenced by learner characteristics. Based on the COPES-model (Winne & Hadwin, 1998) we examined learners’ adapta...

The present study was designed to initially test a model of the role of a set of cognitive (namely, aptitude and working memory) and motivational (namely, language learning goals, self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulation strategy use) individual differences variables in writing performance of a group of Iranian undergraduate EFL learners and, subsequently, to identify the possible differences ...

Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been widely advocated by a considerable number of applied linguists and English language teachers, its implementation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts has encountered a number of difficulties.  Reviewing the literature suggests that one of the reasons for unsuccessful implementation of CLT may be neglect of learners' beliefs in t...