In college introductory science courses, students are challenged with mastering large amounts of disciplinary content while developing as autonomous and effective learners. Self-regulated learning (SRL) is the process of setting learning goals, monitoring progress toward them, and applying appropriate study strategies. SRL characterizes successful, "expert" learners, and develops with time and ...

It is generally assumed that Self-assessment plays a profound role in autonomous language learning und accordingly leads to learner independency. It encourages learners to prospect their own language learning processes and provides them with feedback of their learning progress. Self-assessment also raises the awareness of learners’ individual needs among both students and teachers alike and wil...

With the proliferation of learning resources on the Web, finding suitable content (using telephone) has become a rigorous task for voice-based online learners to achieve better performance. The problem with Finding Content Suitability (FCS) with voice E-Learning applications is more complex when the sight-impaired learner is involved. Existing voice-enabled applications in the domain of E-Learn...

Collocations play a significant role in second language acquisition. In order to be able to offer efficient support to learners, an NLP-based CALL environment for learning collocations should be based on a representative collocation error annotated learner corpus. However, so far, no theoretically-motivated collocation error tag set is available. Existing learner corpora tag collocation errors ...

Virtual Instructor enabled mobile augmented reality learning (MARL) games have the potential to provide a fun and educational experience. In these types of “serious games”, learners/game players may wear a mobile headsup display that provide a rich graphical interface over the real world allowing the real world to be augmented with digital annotations including animation, graphics, text, and vi...

While the quality of object recognition systems can strongly benefit from more data, human annotation and labeling can hardly keep pace. This motivates the usage of autonomous and unsupervised learning methods. In this paper, we present a simple, yet effective method for unsupervised image categorization, which relies on discriminative learners. Since automatically obtaining error-free labeled ...

1. introduction for many students reading is the most important of the four skills in a foreign language. if we consider the study of english as a second or foreign language around the world and the situation in which most english learners find themselves, we recognize that reading is one of the main reasons why students learn the language (richards & renandya, 2002).researchers believe that th...

Autonomous learning is the cornerstone in a student-centred approach. The practice of autonomous helps make teaching and more engaging for learners. However, there are very little systematic studies that cover this topic. These will explore teachers’ factors during implementation approach its respective representatives covers point view from teacher’s perspective. study carried out aid bridging...

A major current focus in vocabulary instruction has been on how to foster autonomous learning and provide learners with techniques deal retention. In view of this idea, numerous studies have interested investigating the effect teaching such mnemonic strategies learners’ ability retain new items. Thus, paper intends concept narrative chain method as a memory strategy that helps EFL remember voca...

In this competitive society it is essential to produce graduates who are autonomous, critical, competitive and capable of meeting with changing academic and professional needs. However, Thang (2001, 2003, & 2005) revealed that the undergraduates (both distance learners and on-campus learners) of the National University of Malaysia, a public university in Malaysia displayed a lack of autonomy in...