scholarly journals Metacognitive Listening Strategies Used by Saudi EFL Medical Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Eid Alhaisoni

The present study investigated the metacognitive listening strategies among Saudi EFL medical students. The participants were 104 males and females, randomly selected to fill in the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ), developed and validated Vandergrift Goh, Mareschal, and Tafaghodtari (2006). The results revealed that participants use problem-solving and direct attention strategies more frequently than other metacognitive listening strategies. On the other hand, mental translation and personal knowledge strategies were reported to be the least used strategies. The pedagogical implications of these findings are discussed.

Author(s):  
Arum Nisma Wulanjani ◽  
Lilia Indriani

<p>Listening has been claimed as one of the most challenging skill to teach since many research found that the students, especially EFL students, still worried when having a listening  class. Listening still gives a fear for the students as long as they couldn’t deal with their worriness in joining listening class. It may be caused by their nescience in figuring out what strategy they could use while they are trying to do listening tasks given.</p><p>This study aims to investigate metacognitive listening strategies used by EFL students in listening class. This study is to find out what strategies mostly adopted by the students in listening class. Besides, this study also tries to propose a need mapping for constructing listening tasks. The students were English Departmenet students of Universitas Tidar. In this study, the data were collected by using Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) adopted form Vandegrift. The results revealed that the students mostly used problem-solving strategies while doing listening tasks. The use of this strategy implies that most of the students belong to effective listeners. On the other hand, the use of mental translation is the least use among the students. These results are needed  as one of the basic needs in developing listening tasks. The result could give a clear guidance and limitation for developing listening tasks for the students.  </p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 855-860
Author(s):  
Chii Huei Yu

This paper uses the mathematical software Maple as the auxiliary tool to study the differential problem of four types of rational functions. We can obtain the closed forms of any order derivatives of these rational functions by using binomial theorem. On the other hand, we propose four examples to do calculation practically. The research methods adopted in this study involved finding solutions through manual calculations and verifying these solutions by using Maple. This type of research method not only allows the discovery of calculation errors, but also helps modify the original directions of thinking from manual and Maple calculations. For this reason, Maple provides insights and guidance regarding problem-solving methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Moussa Side ◽  
Eby Yoboué Gnamma Honorine Alla ◽  
Behiri Innocent Kakou ◽  
Béatrice Abouo Adepo-Gourene

The growth and size at first sexual maturity of the species Ethmalosa fimbriata were studied in two sites in the Ebrié lagoon: Bietri, a highly anthropized environment and Vitré 2, a reference site. Growth parameters estimated from size frequencies showed that growth in both size and weight was faster in females than in males regardless of habitat. On the other hand, specimens from Biétri bay have a slower growth rate than those from Vitré 2. In Bietri bay, individuals are characterized by early sexual maturity. They reach sexual maturity at the age of 0.55 years (about 7 months), corresponding to a size of 6.13 cm for males and 8.42 cm for females; whereas in Vitré 2, they reach sexual maturity at the age of 0.82 years (about 10 months) corresponding to a size of 10.22 cm and 12.94 cm for males and females respectively. These results show that in a highly antropic environment, the growth of Ethmalosa fimbriata is affected and individuals reproduce earlier.


Crustaceana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (12-14) ◽  
pp. 1283-1299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahmida Wazed Tina ◽  
Mullica Jaroensutasinee ◽  
Krisanadej Jaroensutasinee

We examined the effects of population density on body size and burrow characteristics ofUca bengaliCrane, 1975. We predicted that (1) males in high-density areas (HD) should be larger in size and build higher quality burrows than males in low-density areas (LD), and (2) HD females should be larger in size, but build lower quality burrows than LD females, as HD females can find higher numbers of good quality male burrows around them for breeding and egg incubation. Our results showed that males and females in HD were larger in size than those in LD. Since HD males were larger in size, they built higher quality burrows than males in LD. On the other hand, even though LD females were smaller in size than HD ones, they built higher quality burrows than HD females. Our results thus indicate that density effects both body size and burrow characteristics.


2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Karpov

It is not only that different dynamic assessment (DA) techniques evaluate different “learning potentials” of the individual; some such techniques do not evaluate any kind of learning potential. In particular, graduated prompts techniques, rather than evaluating learning potential of the individual, evaluate the level of his or her mastery of a certain problemsolving procedure. On the other hand, DA techniques that target the qualitative level at which the individual is able to learn a brand new problem-solving procedure evaluate indeed the individual’s general learning potential.


Author(s):  
Ian Tseng ◽  
Jarrod Moss ◽  
Jonathan Cagan ◽  
Kenneth Kotovsky

Designers have been known to seek analogical inspiration during design ideation. This paper presents an experiment that studies the types of analogies that most impact design creativity, as well as the time during problem solving when it is most effective to seek such analogical stimulation. This experiment showed that new information that was highly similar to the problem affected problem solving even if the information was given before problem solving began. On the other hand, new information that was distantly related to the problem only affected problem solving when it was presented during a break after problem solving had already begun. These results support the idea that open goals increase the likelihood that distantly related information become incorporated into problem solving. Functional principles found in the problem-relevant information given were also found to prime solutions in corresponding categories.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Baldev Singh Sandhu ◽  
Dr. Yogita Sharma

The understanding of dynamics of self regulation in working women who on one hand are always under divergent pressures of performances and meet diverse kind of expectations on the other hand show relatively better volitional controls over their behavior, becomes important. This study examined the links between self regulation and cognitive functions in a sample of 318 working women. Cognitive functions were assessed through problem solving and cognitive interference. Results indicated that there is highly positive and significant association between self regulation and problem solving capacity (P< .01) and the capacity to handle cognitive interference (P< .01). Additional analysis demonstrated that women with sharp cognitive functions were high on self regulation as compared to women with disrupted cognitive functions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5044-5051
Author(s):  
Dr. Lama Majed Al-Qaisy

This paper focuses onidentifying the attitudes of the students of Tafila Technical University towards distance learning. The study sample consisted of 314 undergraduate students for the academic year 2020/2021. The results of the study show that students’attitudes toward distance learning were positive. As for the difference between students’ attitudes and study variables, it was found that there were no differences between students’attitudes towards distance learning and gender (males and females). On the other hand, differences were found due to the type of college and were in favor of the scientific colleges.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 524
Author(s):  
Aulia Siska Yuliana ◽  
Parno Parno ◽  
Ahmad Taufiq

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This study was aimed to know problem solving skill of senior high school students in heat and temperature. The study was used descriptive-quantitative method and the sample of research was twelve grade students. The instruments that already used as a number of question problem solving skill had 0.732 reliability. The result was analyzed by using rubric of problem solving that already developed by Doctor. The result was obtained that problem solving skill was medium category. This category was included useful description and physics approach. On the other hand, mathematical procedure and logical progression were included as low category.</p><strong>Abstrak:</strong><em> </em>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sejauh mana tingkat kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa SMA pada materi suhu dan kalor. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini dalah deskriptif kuantitatif dan siswa kelas XII sebagai sampel dalam penelitian ini. Instrumen yang digunakan yaitu tes kemampuan pemecahan masalah dengan reliabilitas 0,732. Data hasil tes dianalisis dengan rubrik kemampuan pemecahan masalah yang dikembangkan oleh <em>Docktor</em>. Hasil peneltian menunjukkan bahwa secara keseluruhan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa tergolong dalam kriteria sedang. Kemampuan pemecahan masalah pada kategori <em>useful description</em>, <em>physics approach</em> dan <em>specific application of physics </em>dalam kriteria sedang, sedangkan kategori <em>mathematical procedures</em> dan <em>logical progression</em> termasuk dalam kriteria rendah.


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