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Direct linkElvira Barrios; Irene Acosta-Manzano – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study aimed to identify associations and predictors of willingness to communicate (WTC) of adult foreign language (FL) learners and whether they are contingent upon the FL being learned. To this end, our research investigated learner variables associated with WTC in adult FL learners of English and of French in an under-researched field of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French, Foreign Countries
Jakub Bielak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) experienced during a creative collaborative oral English-as-a-foreign-language task, and the relationships between FLE/FLA and task speech fluency were investigated. The task was performed by mid-intermediate/high-intermediate English learners (N = 43) in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency
Miroslaw Pawlak; Kata Csizér; Mariusz Kruk; Joanna Zawodniak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Grit is among the individual difference (ID) variables that have recently come to the attention of researchers investigating second language acquisition. While some empirical evidence has been accumulated, it is clearly scant and limited, also because of the fact that many studies have looked into domain-general grit rather than this attribute as…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
Nancy Gagné; Leif M. French; Kirsten M. Hummel – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Within the same learning context, learners' outcomes in terms of oral fluency vary greatly. This study tracked the relative contributions that first language (L1) and initial second language (L2) fluency skill and working memory (WM) made to L2 fluency development. We assessed the performance of French-speaking Grade 6 learners' (n = 47, mean age:…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Short Term Memory, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Peijian Paul Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To sustain students' continuous learning in a COVID-19 pandemic context, schools and universities have shifted traditional classroom teaching to synchronous online teaching. However, there is limited understanding of acceptance and adoption of synchronous online teaching by university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, English (Second Language)
