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Mariusz Kruk; Miroslaw Pawlak; Majid Elahi Shirvan; Tahereh Taherian; Elham Yazdanmehr – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present research aimed to explore the dynamic growth of two emotional constructs: foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) among L2 learners. To do so, we used a method that would capture the inherent dynamicity of L2 learners' enjoyment and boredom during an EFL course. To this aim, a bivariate latent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, English (Second Language), Emotional Response
Zeynep Yücedag; Recep Sahin Arslan – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2025
The pervasive influence of technology crosses borders, reshaping personal, professional, and social realms globally, with education notably transformed in schools and communities. This study aims to uncover language learning strategies among digital natives in the Turkish EFL context through a quantitative research design. The study revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Educational Technology
Razieh Mohammadi; Nasim Ghanbari; Abbas Abbasi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
As a formative assessment procedure, self-assessment aims to converge learners' and teachers' views in assessment. Hence, reducing the perceptual mismatches between the learners' and the teachers' assessments would positively affect the learning process. For this aim, the present study investigated to what extent the learners' assessment of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Criteria, Differences, Students
Tatsuma Shirai – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2025
This paper presents a soft-CLIL (content and language integrated learning) practice focused on biomimicry, conducted at Japan's National Institute of Technology (NIT). Biomimicry involves solving problems and creating new things by drawing inspiration from animals, plants, and other living organisms to design and enhance human-made products and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Sustainability, Biology
Saeedeh Rajayi; Roohollah Maleki – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through asynchronous social media on EFL learners' vocabulary learning and retention. To fulfill the objective of this study, the researcher selected 57 EFL learners through convenience sampling method. The participants were assigned randomly into two groups of the experimental…
Descriptors: Social Media, Asynchronous Communication, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology)
Ali Soyoof; Barry Lee Reynolds; Kan Kan Chan; Wen-Ta Tseng; Kate McLay – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Research has shown that massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have the potential to offer language learning opportunities. However, there is a dearth of research exploring student attitudes about the potential of these games for language learning. We used the language learning principles framework proposed by Brown and Lee…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ghorbani Nejad, Solmaz; Farvardin, Mohammad Taghi – International Journal of Listening, 2022
Investigating the learner variables involved in second language (L2) listening comprehension can lead to a better understanding of the difficulties that learners may encounter while listening to an L2. In this line, this study aimed to examine the roles of some important learner variables (i.e., general language proficiency, aural vocabulary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Barriers, Language Proficiency
Ugla, Raed Latif – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study aims at identifying motivation toward English language learning among students of different fields of study. More specifically, it tries to identify the two types of motivation (integrative/ instrumental) among those students and also the preferred activities used by them. This study is qualitative and quantitative, which uses two types…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Musa Nushi; Peyman Jahanbin – Open Education Studies, 2024
This study applies audio-assisted reading (AAR), a technique that provides multimedia input, to encourage incidental learning of the present perfect tense. The decision to choose this tense was informed by previous studies, which have shown that its multifunctional nature presents EFL learners with considerable challenges. Thirty-four Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Multimedia Instruction, Incidental Learning, Morphemes
Singkum, Runyarut; Chinwonnob, Apasara – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
This study investigated the implementation of EFL [English as a foreign language] Extensive Reading tasks and materials for Thai vocational students over ten weeks. Fifty-one students took the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) reading test before and after the implementation. Quantitative data were collected through the TOEIC…
Descriptors: Vocational English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Strategies
Lin, Ming Huei – SAGE Open, 2021
This article reports a pre-post comparative study investigating whether the data-driven learning (DDL) approach has different pedagogical effects on grammar students of English as a foreign language (EFL) with different levels of English proficiency. The study entailed a treatment group (TG) of 95 first-year undergraduates who learned grammar…
Descriptors: Data Use, Discovery Learning, College Freshmen, Late Adolescents
Banaeian, Hossein; Gilanlioglu, Ilkay – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This study investigated how the NAO robot as a teaching assistant affects the way university students learn vocabulary and their attitudes towards it. A mixed method approach was followed to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. A quasi-experimental design, including a pre-test and a post-test, was employed to explore the impact of the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Technology Integration, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Elmetaher, Hosam – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Listening is often a challenge for foreign/second language learners. Unlike other language skills, listening requires immediate understanding and processing (Vandergrift, 2004) and background knowledge of the target language culture (Vandergrift, 2007; Walker, 2014). Krashen (1985) argued that language can be acquired with comprehensible input;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Bailey, Daniel R.; Rakushin-Lee, Andrea – TESL-EJ, 2021
Social networking for language learning (SNLL) entails students practicing second language (L2) writing on social media platforms like Facebook. Language learning through social media activities occurs through active participation resulting in language output. This examination of how L2 output influences language learning highlights the importance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Value Judgment, College Students, Late Adolescents
Alqahtani, Ali Falah – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper is a report on the study of the relationship between foreign/second language (L2) motivation and vocabulary knowledge. The population of the study is the cadets of a military academy in Saudi Arabia who study English as a foreign language. The total number of participants is 195 Saudis. The author uses the L2 Motivational Self System to…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning