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Essential Factors That Motivate English Language Learning among University Students: A Mixed-Methods Research Study
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Diego Ortega-Auquilla; Ligia Fernanda Espinosa-Cevallos; Sandy T. Soto; Andrés Bonilla Marchán – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
The study was aimed at determining the essential factors that motivate Ecuadorian university students' English learning. The study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods design by means of the administration of online questionnaires to 2077 students and 109 English instructors. The initial quantitative study results were further explained…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Re-Contextualizing Locus of Enunciation and Linguistic Citizenship: A Diary Analysis of Chinese EFL Teachers' Critical Intercultural Awareness Development
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Lina Sun – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study navigates the constructive role of English as a foreign language (EFL) as a critical intercultural discourse of locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship through which teachers in Chinese educational context act as agents of action and social change. Based on a critical discourse analysis of learner diary entries, the study traces…
Descriptors: Diaries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning