The functions of cultural beliefs are often opaque to those who hold them. Accordingly, to benefit from cultural evolution's ability to solve complex adaptive problems, learners must be credulous. However, credulity entails costs, including susceptibility to exploitation, and effort wasted due to false beliefs. One determinant of the optimal level of credulity is the ratio between the costs of ...

Using studies reporting evidence that a learner’s personal epistemological beliefs may influence their acceptance and success in learning, this small study compares learner satisfaction with their epistemological beliefs, gender and age to investigate their adaptation to the use of new mobile technologies for learning. Very early indications from an ongoing study of a mobile tablet classroom ar...

Self-regulation, motivational beliefs, and cognitive strategy use are closely related. These three factors can impact learners' ability to learn succeed in an academic setting. Promoting self-regulation helps learners develop positive beliefs effective strategies. It also encourages be independent decision-making. In addition, this study investigates how students' of strategies affects their le...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

gaining insights into the learners’ individual characteristics such as beliefs about language learning and their relationship with learning strategies is essential for planning effective language instruction. thus, the present study investigated the relationship between beliefs about language learning and learning strategy use in iranian high school students. this study also compared the correl...

Students have to make scores of practical decisions when they study. We investigated the effectiveness of, and beliefs underlying, one such practical decision: the decision to test oneself while studying. Using a flashcards-like procedure, participants studied lists of word pairs. On the second of two study trials, participants either saw the entire pair again (pair mode) or saw the cue and att...