It is nowadays generally agreed that a person's information seeking depends on her tasks and the problems encountered in performing them. The relationships of broad job types and information seeking characteristics have been analyzed both conceptually and empirically, mostly through questionnaires after task performance rather than during task performance. In this article, the relationships of ...

The Children’s Gambling Task (CGT, Kerr & Zelazo, 2004) involves integrating information about losses and gains to maximize winnings when selecting cards from two decks. Both Cognitive Complexity and Control (CCC) theory and Relational Complexity (RC) theory attribute younger children’s difficulty to task complexity. In CCC theory, identification of the advantageous deck requires formulation of...

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...

1. introduction language teachers frequently observe a gap between their students' potential competence and their performance in the class. anderson (1993) attributes this to the fact that human has a limited processing capacity and is not able to attend to various aspects of a task simultaneously. this limitation causes l2 learners not to be able to focus on both meaning and form at the same t...