Despite the significant allocation of time and resources to formal classroom English teaching in Indonesia, outcomes have not been found be commensurate or equivalent. all constraints, a minority EFL learners Indonesia demonstrated exceptional achievements their learning journey, earning them recognition successful learners. This narrative research aims study participants’ out-of-class experien...

This qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in Costa Rica and the reasons of high school students for learning German as a foreign language (GFL) in the US. It asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. The analysis of 27 interviews in a US high ...

The imitation of successful peers is often heralded as an intelligent shortcut to reduce individual learning costs. Using computer simulations, we demonstrate that this advice can be ill-founded and harmful in a cognitive inference task involving continuous learning. In particular, success-based imitators perform worse than both learners who integrate the learning experience of all group member...

When learners have to make sense of risky situations, they can use mathematical models and representations which facilitate successful risk assessment. Based on theoretical considerations on the benefits of specific models and specific representations in such contexts, we present empirical findings of a study which examined whether students use such models and representations in their risk asse...

This article introduces an approach to adaptive wayfinding support for lifelong learners based on self-organisation theory. It describes an architecture which supports the recording, processing and presentation of collective learner behaviour designed to create a feedback loop informing learners of successful paths towards the attainment of their learning objectives. The approach is presented a...

This paper describes how graduate students used paper-based support tools to help them acquire a complex cognitive skill during unsupervised practice, and explains why the tools were able to support the practice. The paper also explains how to design such tools and describes a comparable computer-based performance support system. Ohlsson’s (1996) theory of learning from performance errors state...

Out of the project EMuRgency a game-based learning environment evolved, which trains school children in providing reanimation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The application gets players to act as if they were in a real case of emergency. This paper reports on a formal usability study conducted with two different groups of learners, regular learners and learners with special educationa...

This paper presents a new adaptive m-learning model supporting collaborative and context-aware learning. A seamless integration between learners’ location information and a set of associated learning context dimensions is used to facilitate the provision of pervasive and ubiquitous learning services. The new model adopts nearest search algorithm in order to group spatially related mobile learne...

Metacognitive knowledge is knowledge about learning. Recent research suggests that metacognitive knowledge plays an important function in cognitive activities concerning language use and acquisition. This paper aims to investigate the role of metacognitive knowledge in the English writing of Chinese EFL learners. The present study involves 120 non-English major freshmen in China as participants...