Rebecca Oxford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5519981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Oxford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Oxford |
| SIGNATURE | OXFORD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Immigrants’ and refugees’ ‘funds of knowledge(s)’ on the path to intercultural competence
Funds of knowledges are the accumulated intellectual, social, and cultural competencies that all students bring to educational settings. Immigrants and refugees necessarily experience emotional, material, linguistic, cultural, and legal struggles as they transit from home countries to host countries. Their experiences expand the funds of knowledges that they develop. Education must respond to the needs of these students. A profound educational re…
Perspectives of preservice foreign language teachers
Changing roles for teachers in the English Village Course in Korea
A Closer Look at Learning Strategies, L2 Proficiency, and Gender
This study builds on previous research using the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). Most previous SILL research has made comparisons across the entire survey or in terms of strategy categories and has stressed proficiency level at the expense of other variables. The present largescale (N = 374) study of language learning strategy use by students at three different course levels at the University of Puerto Rico relates strategy use t…
Language Learning Motivation
Learning a language by satellite television
Attending to Learner Reactions to Introductory Spanish Textbooks
Japanese by Satellite
This article describes a study of 107 high school students who were learning Japanese through the medium of satellite television. The investigation focused on factors that influence student achievement in Japanese in the satellite setting. Results showed motivation was the best predictor of Japanese language achievement, but the use of language learning strategies was also highly influential Students who frequently used learning strategies perfor…
Language acquisition
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
Variables Affecting Choice of Language Learning Strategies by University Students
Research on Language Learning Strategies
Vive la Différence? Reflections on Sex Differences in Use of Language Learning Strategies
Sex has been omitted as a variable in most research on language learning strategies. This is a serious omission, given that sex is typically a significant predictor in other educational, psychological, and linguistic research. This article reports on the few studies which have explored sex differences in the use of language learning strategies. The authors of this article speculate why females appear to use afar wider range of language learning s…
Research on Language Learning Strategies
A Closer Look at Learning Strategies, L2 Proficiency, and Gender
This study builds on previous research using the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). Most previous SILL research has made comparisons across the entire survey or in terms of strategy categories and has stressed proficiency level at the expense of other variables. The present largescale (N = 374) study of language learning strategy use by students at three different course levels at the University of Puerto Rico relates strategy use t…
Vive la Différence? Reflections on Sex Differences in Use of Language Learning Strategies
Sex has been omitted as a variable in most research on language learning strategies. This is a serious omission, given that sex is typically a significant predictor in other educational, psychological, and linguistic research. This article reports on the few studies which have explored sex differences in the use of language learning strategies. The authors of this article speculate why females appear to use afar wider range of language learning s…
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
Learning a language by satellite television
Japanese by Satellite
This article describes a study of 107 high school students who were learning Japanese through the medium of satellite television. The investigation focused on factors that influence student achievement in Japanese in the satellite setting. Results showed motivation was the best predictor of Japanese language achievement, but the use of language learning strategies was also highly influential Students who frequently used learning strategies perfor…
Language acquisition
Attending to Learner Reactions to Introductory Spanish Textbooks
Perspectives of preservice foreign language teachers
Vive la Différence? Reflections on Sex Differences in Use of Language Learning Strategies
Sex has been omitted as a variable in most research on language learning strategies. This is a serious omission, given that sex is typically a significant predictor in other educational, psychological, and linguistic research. This article reports on the few studies which have explored sex differences in the use of language learning strategies. The authors of this article speculate why females appear to use afar wider range of language learning s…
Variables Affecting Choice of Language Learning Strategies by University Students
Research on Language Learning Strategies
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
Language acquisition
Learning a language by satellite television
Attending to Learner Reactions to Introductory Spanish Textbooks
Japanese by Satellite
This article describes a study of 107 high school students who were learning Japanese through the medium of satellite television. The investigation focused on factors that influence student achievement in Japanese in the satellite setting. Results showed motivation was the best predictor of Japanese language achievement, but the use of language learning strategies was also highly influential Students who frequently used learning strategies perfor…
Language Learning Motivation
A Closer Look at Learning Strategies, L2 Proficiency, and Gender
This study builds on previous research using the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). Most previous SILL research has made comparisons across the entire survey or in terms of strategy categories and has stressed proficiency level at the expense of other variables. The present largescale (N = 374) study of language learning strategy use by students at three different course levels at the University of Puerto Rico relates strategy use t…
Perspectives of preservice foreign language teachers
Changing roles for teachers in the English Village Course in Korea
Immigrants’ and refugees’ ‘funds of knowledge(s)’ on the path to intercultural competence
Funds of knowledges are the accumulated intellectual, social, and cultural competencies that all students bring to educational settings. Immigrants and refugees necessarily experience emotional, material, linguistic, cultural, and legal struggles as they transit from home countries to host countries. Their experiences expand the funds of knowledges that they develop. Education must respond to the needs of these students. A profound educational re…
Psychology (12 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works)