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The Role of EFL Learners' L2 Self-Identities, and Authenticity Gap on Their Intention to Continue LMOOCs: Insights from an Exploratory Partial Least Approach
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Amir Reza Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
A research study on the L2 Motivational Self-systems (L2MSS) and technology acceptance of Foreign Language Learners (EFL) in relation to Language Massive Open Online Courses (LMOOCs) is warranted. In response, 336 Iranian EFL learners participated in three LMOOC platforms, learned language online in line with their language institutes, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, MOOCs
"More Like a Friend than a Teacher": Ideal Teachers and the Gig Economy for Online Language Learning
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Curran, Nathaniel Ming – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This article considers how language learners conceptualize their ideal teacher within the context of gig economy language platforms (GELPs). GELPs differ significantly from traditional language learning in that their users are able to change between teachers easily and also select teachers according to a far wider range of criteria than is…
Descriptors: Online Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Enhancing EFL Learners' Intercultural Communicative Effectiveness through Telecollaboration with Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
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Gi-Zen Liu; Jalil Fathi; Masoud Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has recently attracted the researchers' attention in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context; however, insufficient studies seem to have examined the role of online programmes in enhancing EFL learners' ICC. The current study, therefore, employed a mixed-methods approach to explore EFL learners'…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning