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Liu, Chubai; Luo, Xinjie – English Language Teaching, 2021
In 2017, the Ministry of Education promulgated the General High School English Curriculum Standards (2017 Edition), which stressed the importance of affective factors in English learning. This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as student questionnaires and interviews to explore the motivational function…
Descriptors: High School Students, Standards, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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El Sakka, Samah Mohammed Fahim – English Language Teaching, 2019
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of explicit affective strategy instruction on the speaking performance of Freshmen English majors at Faculty of Education, Suez University, Egypt. The design of the study is a pre-post quasi experimental one. The instrument is a pre/post speaking performance test (designed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Majors (Students), English (Second Language)
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Balci, Özgül – English Language Teaching, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the language learning strategies of freshman students and their learning styles. This study is a descriptive research and employs a relational screening model. Participants of the study were 328 freshman students majoring in different fields at Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Correlation, Second Language Learning
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Sarhandi, Pir Suhail Ahmed; Bajnaid, Ayman; Elyas, Tariq – English Language Teaching, 2017
Teachers all over the world strive to keep their students engaged, and research has shown that task engagement can be elevated by utilising technology to complete classroom activities. Reasons suggested for this is that technology's alignment with students' interests, as well as the stimulatingly transformative effect that technology can have on…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language)
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Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.; Aldaihani, Hussein A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated English teachers' use of learners' L1 (Arabic) in college classrooms in Kuwait. The purpose of the study was three-fold: (1) to describe the functions for which L1 was employed by the teachers, (2) to explore the affective, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic factors that may have led teachers to use L1 in L2 teaching,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Mai, Magdaline Mbong – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper reports on a needs analysis that sought to explore students' reading challenges as an initial step in designing an appropriate reading intervention programme for first-year Sociology students. The aim of the paper is to suggest conditions for the production of an effective reading intervention programme by determining the needs of the…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Intervention, Affective Behavior, Reading Programs