Interview with a Non-Traditional Adult Learner: An Interpretative Report Introduction Non-traditional students can be identified as students who may have "non-traditional" characteristics which may include being financially independent‚ or delayed enrollment into college (not entering right out of high school)‚ or are returning to college after having "stepped-out" at least once‚ or are working full time or attending college part time‚ or have children‚ are married‚ widowed or divorced‚ or commute
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Research has found that intrinsic motivation is the one that is usually associated with high educational achievements by students. Studies showing the power of intrinsic motivation "Mark Lepper’s research (1988) said that intrinsically motivated learners tend to employ strategies that demand more effort and that enable them to process information more deeply. They also prefer tasks that are more challenging and are willing to put in greater amounts of effort to achieve learning goals." "Condry and
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Learner Scenario - Nia Nia’s overconfidence is preventing her from completing her assignment to standard. I feel that Nia would have benefited greatly had she adjusted her learning patterns. She could have concentrated more on her Precise skill by asking for guidance on the assignment‚ and less on her Confluence which had her doing things her own way. Instead of using one of her skills over the other‚ she should have tethered her three Use First skills. By allowing her strengths to work together
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clear circulation of the ends words (Donald‚ 1995). It can be explained that Vietnamese people do not release word-final voiced consonant in mother tongue (Thompson‚ 1965). This can be regarded ending sounds as the most common errors of Vietnamese learners‚ as based on an earlier research by Australian government publication Asian language Motes. Encountering with final sounds problem that possibly led to the lack or wrong linking sounds. In terms of Vietnamese language‚ there is no “linking sounds”
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Managing Time as an Adult Learner Time is an amazing concept. Time has been said to be worth more than gold‚ jewelry or even money. Many would trade valuable items in order to have more of it or even go back into it. We are given time and told to “spend” it wisely. From birth our time is filled with things to do‚ to learn and to accomplish. What if there was a secret to freezing time‚ what would it be worth? As a child earns money some choose to save or some spend quickly. Can you “spend” your time
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when I listen to the teacher’s oral teaching. And also I would cooperate more in the class if the teacher is nice and considerable. But there are times when I would feel too tired because there’s too much homework and the pacing of our lessons is too slow that every topic would be repeated every day and it may get too draggy and redundant. When I reached high school‚ things were different. I can’t just use “stock knowledge” or just listen to the teacher’s oral teaching. I may have to refer to books
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Programs that Serve Learners with Disabilities Michelle Blakley Education Psychology 225‚ Section 40 Professor Wall December 2‚ 2012 One of every dozen U.S. children and teenagers -- 5.2 million -- has a physical or mental disability‚ according to new figures from the 2000 Census that reflect sharp growth in the nation ’s young handicapped population over the past decade (Cohn‚ 2002). Everyone‚ at any time‚ is at risk to acquire a disability‚ whether through an illness‚ an injury‚ or
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Chapter 1 1. The maintenance of cultures as parallel and equal to the dominant culture in a society is? Cultural pluralism 2. The concept that different cultural groups can and should maintain their unique cultural identities while participating equally in the dominant culture is Biculturalism 3. Culture influences the importance of prestige‚ status‚ pride‚ family‚ loyalty‚ love of country‚ religious belief‚ and honor. The manifestation of culture that is reflected in this statement
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I read the international bestseller “Thinking‚ Fast and Slow” of Daniel Kahneman (Winner of the Nobel Prize) over the last 3-4 weeks. I think it is a very interesting book and it is describing very critically the human brain and mind‚ which gave me many insights into decision-making and errors we are doing automatically without noticing it every day. He is very often talking about "System 1" and "System 2". System 1 is fast; it’s intuitive‚ associative‚ metaphorical‚ automatic‚ impressionistic
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Tourism and Hospitality Research http://thr.sagepub.com/ Slow food versus fast food: A Zimbabwean case study of hotelier perspectives Muchazondida Mkono Tourism and Hospitality Research 2012 12: 147 originally published online 14 December 2012 DOI: 10.1177/1467358412470556 The online version of this article can be found at: http://thr.sagepub.com/content/12/3/147 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Tourism and Hospitality Research can be
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