Empowering Mathematics Learners through Effective Memory Strategies

2017 ◽  
pp. 117-144
Author(s):  
Khoon Yoong WONG
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2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muradi ◽  
Hasbullah Hasbullah

This research is a case against of departement of Arabic education of IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin to learn Arabic. The data source of this research is the student of 2012/2013, 2013/2014, and six lecturers that administer of linguistic subject or language skills. This study aims to collect information on students learning Arabic strategies in departement of Arabic education. While the data extracted is information about: the form of difficulty students learning Arabic, the cause and degree of difficulty, the type of student learning in departement of arabic education, the efforts and strategies by departement of arabic education students in problem solving learning Arabic, and the outcome of the efforts/strategies they are doing. Based on the survey results revealed that students have difficulty in learning Arabic in the matter of language and language skills. Difficulties in linguistic materials include use nahwu and sharf in reading and writing, the meaning of a sentence or a word, sentence or word and pronunciation. While the difficulties in aspects of language skills include: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. But the difficulties they feel it, both aspects of alkalinity or their skills can be overcome by evaluating their learning, the dominant use of memory strategies, affective, cognitive, and social strategies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Biljana Radić-Bojanić

The paper examines how frequently high school students use EFL vocabulary learning strategies and whether contextual educational factors have any influence on strategy selection. The theoretical part discusses the importance of language learning strategies, which can facilitate the internalization, storage, retrieval, or use of the new language, factors that affect their usage and selection (e.g. nature of the task, students' motivation, foreign language proficiency, teacher's expectations, students' learning styles, students' gender), as well as the process of vocabulary acquisition. The empirical part presents the results of the analysis of a survey conducted among students from two high schools in Serbia, a vocational school and a grammar school. The aim of the research is to determine how frequently students use vocabulary learning strategies and if there are any statistically significant differences in strategy use between students from the two schools which are the consequence of different subjects and learning objectives. The results show that the majority of vocabulary learning strategies have medium use among high school students (seven out of nine memory strategies, seven out of nine cognitive strategies and two out of four compensatory strategies) and that there are certain inter-group differences (whereas students from the medical high school use memory strategies more frequently, students from the grammar school report higher use of cognitive and compensatory strategies). The results indicate that there are important cross-curricular links which point to the transfer of learning strategies from content subjects to English language classes.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour ◽  
Roozbeh Kargar ◽  
Nadimeh Esfandiari

<p><em>Research in reading comprehension associates the assumption that readers’ attributes may influence reading comprehension; different readers may process the same text in different ways, depending on their purposes, motivation, attitudes, interests, background knowledge, and the strategies they use. The present study attempted to investigate the impact of teaching cognitive and memory strategies on male and female IELTS candidates’ reading comprehension. To carry out the study, the researcher selected a sample of 88 male and female EFL learners, who attended IELTS preparation classes in Afarinesh English Language Institute regularly. The participants were randomly assigned into three groups; namely, two experimental groups and a control group. Eight memory and cognitive strategies were taught explicitly in the two experimental groups respectively during the treatment, whereas the current usual techniques were being used in the control group. The results showed that the experimental groups outperformed the control group in reading comprehension. The difference between the mean scores of the two experimental groups was not statistically significant. That is, instructing cognitive and memory strategies have had somehow similar impact on the IELTS candidates’ reading comprehension. Finally, the participants’ gender as a moderator variable did not make a significant difference in their reading comprehension.</em></p>


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